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    Poisoned Pigments
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2026) Cupp, Brittney
    Nineteenth century bookbinding involved the use of many heavy metals. These heavy metals were used in the production of pigments. This poster delves into the different popular pigments used during this time period. These pigments include chrome yellow, Prussian blue, vermillion, and Scheele’s green.
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    Poisoned Pages: Testing for Toxic Elements in 19th-Century Book Bindings
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2026) Cupp, Brittney; Sanders, Olivia; Thompson, Laurel; Weatherly, Jessie; Pierce, Sarah; Martin, Susan; Hanson, Susan
    Book binding in the 19th century used a number of pigments that contained toxic elements. Inspired by the Poison Book Project, started by the University of Delaware, our project aimed to identify potential toxic elements of 19th century books housed in MTSU’s Walker Library Special
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    The Ask: A More Beautiful Question, 2nd Edition
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2025-08-26) Pantelides, Kate L.; Krause, Nich; LaPlue, Caroline
    “Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.” -e.e. cummings, 1938 We read e.e. cummings as suggesting that being a person who asks questions opens us to a world of interesting experiences and the possibility of beautiful answers. We hope that this book will help you focus on questions rather than answers. This book, The Ask: A More Beautiful Question, is an Open Educational Resource (OER), open access, freely available textbook. We appreciate the opportunities that OER invites – to work with multiple authors, to create instantly accessible texts, to offer high-quality, low-cost books to students and faculty excited about research and writing. But OERs are also weird. It takes an extraordinary amount of time, effort, and resources, to ensure the quality of OER texts. The labor of publication is often invisible in final textual products, but we appreciate how OER work sheds light on this collaborative, complicated process. This second edition of The Ask: A More Beautiful Question builds on the work of our colleagues, offering a new organization that mirrors MTSU’s ENGL 1020 curriculum, enhanced accessibility, new readings, and revised course objectives in line with the True Blue Core.
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    The Ask: A More Beautiful Question, 1st edition (NO LONGER UPDATED)
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021-08-16) Pantelides, Kate L.; Stone, Erica M.; Williams, Elizabeth M.; Crandall, Harlow; Williams, Lisa; McCoy, Shane A.
    This book is a textbook designed for the MTSU True Blue Core English program. It includes a remix/mash-up of some of the best open-access and Creative Commons licensed texts that address composition. We have included material from Bad Ideas About Writing edited by Cheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Loewe; Try This: Research Methods For Writers by Jennifer Clary-Lemon, Derek Mueller, and Kate Pantelides; Writing Spaces edited by Dana Driscoll, Mary K. Stewart, and Matthew Vetter; Introduction to Writing in College by Melanie Gagich; Writing Commons created and edited by Joseph Moxley; the Bad Ideas About Writing Podcast by Kyle Stedman; and ENG 102: Reading, Writing and Research by Emilie Zickel. Furthermore, new content has been created for this text by Harlow Crandall, Kate Pantelides, Erica Stone, and Elizabeth Williams. And this particular mashup was curated by Harlow Crandall, Kate Pantelides, Erica Stone, Lisa E. Williams, and Elizabeth Williams, with generous support from the MTSU Provost’s Office and the Tennessee Board of Regents. Additionally, it was edited by Madonna Fajardo Kemp. We wish to extend our sincerest gratitude to all contributors, curators, and donors.
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    Exploring How General Education Elementary Teachers Who Have Had Experience Teaching Students with ASD Successfully Support Students Instructionally and Environmentally: A Qualitative Interview Study
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2026) Samuel, Ayana; Samuel, Ayana; Carter, Lando; Pence, Alicia; George, Ronald Chris
    One specific question guided this inquiry: Given general education teachers’ perceptions, how does the general education teacher successfully support students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the classroom instructionally and environmentally?  This qualitative interview study explored how general education elementary teachers successfully support students with ASD instructionally and environmentally. Themes include providing intentional instructional and environmental support to students with ASD through academic/instructional learning support, building positive relationships, teacher collaboration, social/emotional needs, and teacher training related to ASD.