Proposing a World without a Mother: Grief and Creative Nonfiction as a Sense-Making Tool

Note

The form for a proposal was taken from:

Gibson, Twyla, and Mark Lipton. Research, Write, Create: Connecting Scholarship and Digital Media. Don Mills, ON: Oxford UP, 2014. Print.

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