Table of Contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Table of Contents
  3. List of Appendixes and Abbreviations
  4. How Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Affects Writing and Learning:
    What Neuroscience Suggests about the Memoir Assignment
  5. Considering the Impact of Domestic Abuse on Literacy Learning
    1. Conclusions
  6. Enactionist Theory of Linguistics and Culture
    1. Enactionism
    2. Enactionism and Shifts in Cultural Awareness of Abuse and Violence
      Enactionism and Domestic Abuse
    3. Enactionism and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
    4. Conclusions
  7. The Psychobiology of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
    1. Experiencing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
    2. Narratives Illustrating Trauma With and Without Resultant PTSD
    3. Orderly Versus Disordered Stress Response
    4. Memory Formation Under Stress
    5. Conclusions: What Neuroscience Suggests About First-Year Students
  8. Writing After Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
    1. Proposal: Literacy Program for Survivors of Abuse
  9. References
  10. Appendix A
  11. Appendix B
  12. Appendix C
  13. Appendix D
  14. Appendix E
  15. Appendix F
  16. Endnotes