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Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie
A Collection of Critical Essays

 Edited by Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush

The University of Utah Press


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Sherman Alexie : a collection of critical essays / edited
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p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-60781-008-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-60781-974-5 (ebook)
1. Alexie, Sherman, 1966­—Criticism and interpretation.
2. Indians in literature. I. Berglund, Jeff. II. Roush, Jan
PS3551.L35774Z87 2010 818’.5409­—dc22
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Cover photo by Rob Casey, www.robcasey.net.

Printed and bound by Sheridan Books, Inc.,


Ann Arbor, Michigan.
For Monica, Isabella, and Juliana

—JB

For Michael

—JR
Contents
Acknowledgments  viii
Introduction: “Imagination Turns Every Word into a Bottle Rocket”
An Introduction to Sherman Alexie
 Jeff Berglund   xi

1. Dancing That Way, Things Began to Change: The Ghost Dance as


Pantribal Metaphor in Sherman Alexie’s Writing
 Lisa Tatonetti   1

2. “Survival = Anger x Imagination”: Sherman Alexie’s Dark Humor


 Philip Heldrich   25

3. “An Extreme Need to Tell the Truth”: Silence and Language


in Sherman Alexie’s “The Trial of Thomas Builds-the-Fire”
 Elizabeth Archuleta   44

4. Rock and Roll, Redskins, and Blues in Sherman Alexie’s Work


 P. Jane Hafen   62

5. This Is What It Means to Say Reservation Cinema: Making


Cinematic Indians in Smoke Signals
 James H. Cox   74

6. Native Sensibility and the Significance of Women in Smoke Signals


 Angelica Lawson   95

7. The Distinctive Sonority of Sherman Alexie’s Indigenous Poetics


 Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez   107
8. The Poetics of Tribalism in Sherman Alexie’s
The Summer of Black Widows
 Nancy J. Peterson   134

9. Sherman Alexie’s Challenge to the Academy’s Teaching of Native


American Literature, Non-Native Writers, and Critics
 Patrice Hollrah   159

10. “Indians Do Not Live in Cities, They Only Reside There”:


Captivity and the Urban Wilderness in Indian Killer
 Meredith James   171

11. Indigenous Liaisons: Sex/Gender Variability, Indianness, and


Intimacy in Sherman Alexie’s The Toughest Indian in the World
 Stephen F. Evans   186

12. Sherman Alexie’s Transformation of “Ten Little Indians”


 Margaret O’Shaughnessey   212

13. Healing the Soul Wound in Flight and The Absolutely


True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
 Jan Johnson   224

14. The Business of Writing: Sherman Alexie’s


Meditations on Authorship
 Jeff Berglund   241

Contributors  265
Bibliography  269
Index  293
Acknowledgments

� Jeff Berglund
I would like to thank, first and foremost, Sherman Alexie for invigorating
our contemporary world with his energy and vision. I and my students
have been pushed to reevaluate the ways we view the world. He may not
have seen this firsthand when he visited my campus, Northern Arizona
University, two times in the past eight years, but we have found a new
reason to read.
Throughout the process of editing this book, Sherman Alexie’s assis-
tant, Christy Cox, has been tremendously helpful. I especially appreciate
her efficiency and sincere warmth. Rob Casey, Sherman Alexie’s official
photographer, has graciously contributed the cover image, and for this I
am incredibly grateful.
I’m deeply indebted to reviewers for the press, Simon Ortiz and Birgit
Hans, for seeing the value of this enterprise and for astute suggestions for
improvement of this manuscript. Thank you to everyone at the University
of Utah Press for supporting this project.
I would like to thank my co-editor, Jan Roush, for first facilitating
this collaboration a number of years ago, not long after we met at the

viii
Acknowledgments ix

Western Literature Association conference in Tucson, Arizona. I appreci-


ate Jan’s interest in Alexie’s intertextuality and generic explorations, not
to mention her sharp editing eyes.
Over the years I have treasured the professional friendships that have
been formed through discussions of Sherman Alexie’s work at wonderful
conferences. So, I thank the organizers of the Native American Literature
Symposium, the American Studies Association national conference, the
Modern Language Association conference, the Western Literature Associ-
ation conference, the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, and
the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association conference.
I would like to thank my students, too, who have shared this journey
through the constantly expanding oeuvre of Alexie’s writings, even the
students who made it seem as if Indian Killer was coming to life before
our very eyes when the campus police were called about hate speech and
threats of violence. Alexie’s work explores issues that touch nerves and
that resonate in visceral, emotional, and cerebral ways.
In particular, I want to thank all of the contributors to this collec-
tion: Jan Johnson, Lisa Tatonetti, James H. Cox, P. Jane Hafen, Eliza-
beth Archuleta, Angelica Lawson, Nancy J. Peterson, Patrice Hollrah,
Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez, Meredith James, Stephen F. Evans, Mar-
garet O’Shaugnnessey, and Philip Heldrich. Thank you for your inspiring
scholarship­—herein and elsewhere­—as well as your patience and incred-
ible dedication to this project.
Thank you to my friends and colleagues: Monica Brown, Jennifer
Denetdale, Eric Meeks, Leilah Danielson, Annette McGivney, Jerry Thull,
Gioia Woods, Aaron Cohen, Irene Matthews, Nancy Paxton, Nancy Bar-
ron, Sara Aleman, Steven Rosendale, Paul Ferlazzo, Octaviana Trujillo,
Michelle Harris, Harvey Charles, Linda Shadiow, Esther Belin, Connie
Jacobs, and Jan Johnson. I value your friendships and the ways you help
me reflect on the direction and value of the work we all undertake.
Thank you to my Provost Liz Grobsmith and President John Haeger for
your support and recognition of my research, teaching, and service on
numerous levels throughout my years at Northern Arizona University.
Thank you to my parents, Patricia and Duane Berglund, for having
confidence in me in all ways.
x Acknowledgments

I reserve my deepest thanks for Monica, Isabella, and Juliana for your
unwavering support and for the strength of your convictions about mak-
ing this a just world. Your creative, intelligent, and energizing spirits
sustain me and make anything seem possible. And, you’re a lot of fun!
Monica sees possibilities in me that I could easily miss out on; thank you
for your advice and encouragement in all aspects of my professional and
personal life. You made this happen.

 Jan Roush
In any collaborative undertaking, there are always many people along
the way who should be recognized for their contributions to the final
product, and this anthology is no exception, beginning, as my co-editor
has so eloquently expressed above, with the inspiration emanating from
the subject of this work, Sherman Alexie himself. Without the depth of
his artistry and versatility across genres there quite simply would be no
need for this collection. To all of those who helped this publication come
to life, from the contributors to the publishing staff and particularly to my
co-editor, Jeff Berglund, whose singlehanded nurturing efforts moved
the manuscript forward, I would like to express my sincere gratitude for
their creativity, scholarly analysis, attention to detail, and their patience
in making certain that the resulting publication do justice to its subject.
Most of all, I would like to thank my family, and especially my husband
Michael, for their unfailing support throughout. Without all of these col-
laborative efforts, this anthology would not have happened.

A portion of the royalties from the sale of this book are directly donated to the Amer-
ican Indian College Fund, something Alexie has recommended, at minimum, for
non-Indian writers and scholars working on Native issues.
 Jeff Berglund

Introduction
“Imagination Turns Every Word
into a Bottle Rocket”
An Introduction to Sherman Alexie

Imagination is the politics of dreams;


imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket.
—Sherman Alexie, “Imagining the Reservation,” The Lone
Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

On October 7, 1966, Sherman Alexie was born in Wellpinit on the Spo-


kane Indian Reservation in the eastern part of Washington. His father,
Sherman Sr., was Coeur d’Alene, and his mother, Lillian, is Spokane.
When Alexie was still a child, his father’s interest in reading sparked his
passion for the power of language. In fact, Alexie learned to read at three
because his father was a “major genre reader.”1 After graduating from
Reardan High School, off the reservation, Alexie initially attended Gon-
zaga University before graduating in 1991 from Washington State Univer-
sity in Pullman with a degree in American studies. Today Alexie lives in
Seattle with his wife, Diane, and his two sons.
Alexie’s formative experiences—as a child reared in the midst of alco-
holism in the harsh economic realities of rural reservation life—are focal
points in his early fiction and poetry. In his National Book Award-winning

xi
xii Jeff Berglund

novel for young adults, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
(2007), Alexie fictionally revisits aspects of his childhood; he decided
to novelize them, rather than include them in a memoir he’s writing
because “nobody would actually [believe] it as a memoir.”2 In addition to
an exploration of reservation life, in books such as The Toughest Indian in
the World (2000), Ten Little Indians (2003), Flight (2007), and War Dances
(2009), he has turned his attention to the experiences of urban Indian
people living in a multiethnic environment in situations where identity
and cultural loyalties are questioned because of class standing or roman-
tic and sexual relationships. Notably—given Alexie’s focus to date on
American Indian characters—War Dances, his most recent publication,
contains several stories that lack identifiable Indian characters.
During his college years, he confronted his own alcoholism, gave up
drinking, and has remained sober since he was twenty-three. Switch-
ing from his initial plans to go into medicine, Alexie found his calling
through poetry-writing workshops and was inspired by his professor and
mentor, Alex Kuo, who exposed him to poetry by contemporary Native
writers such as Simon Ortiz, Leslie Silko, Joy Harjo, James Welch, and
Adrian Louis, whom he now includes alongside Walt Whitman and
Emily Dickinson as his literary influences. Kuo encouraged him to seri-
ously consider becoming a writer. A mature Alexie agrees that this deci-
sion was the right one and credits Kuo for starting him on a path that
has led to one of the most prolific writing careers of any contemporary
American author.
Alexie found in books a lifeline out of the reservation, if not literally,
then out of what Adrian Louis calls “the reservation of my mind”: an
internalization of colonial oppression and alienation.3 In “Superman and
Me,” an early essay published in the Los Angeles Times, Alexie noted that
he was reading The Grapes of Wrath when his kindergarten classmates
were struggling with “Dick and Jane”: “I refused to fail. I was smart. I was
arrogant. I was lucky. I read books late into the night . . . I read anything
that had words and paragraphs. I read with equal parts joy and despera-
tion. I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose.
I was trying to save my life.”4 In “Up All Night,” which aired in October
2002 on Now with Bill Moyers on PBS, Alexie explained,
An Introduction to Sherman Alexie xiii

On Friday nights when I can’t sleep, there’s a place I can go


unlike any others in Seattle. Twice Sold Tales is open 24 hours
on Fridays. And in that, I find such great comfort and joy. I mean
there’s something amazing about a place where I can find Ches-
ter Himes at four in the morning, or . . . Graham Greene at 4:30.
That instead of some . . . carbohydrate grand slam feast that kills
your heart, I can find something that feeds your heart. Toni Mor-
rison. Imagine that, Toni Morrison at sunrise. Can you imagine
anything better than that? I mean I could be patriotic in a place
like this. I can love this country more in a place like this than in
any other place. We have too much. But not here. There is no
such thing as too many books.5

Alexie has also passed on to several of his young protagonists a simi-


lar predilection for reading. In Flight, Zits, a teenage orphan in and out
of foster homes, finds himself transported into the bodies and expe-
riences of others in different time periods. Though his life is filled with
instability, among the other essentials (clothes and photos of his par-
ents) in his backpack are three novels: The Grapes of Wrath, Winter in
the Blood and The Dead Zone. He knows “there has never been a human
being or a television show, no matter how great, that could measure
up to a great book.”6 When Zits finds himself in a foster home that has
no books, he wonders, “What kind of life can you have in a house with-
out books?” (Flight, 13). His transportation through time transforms
him and ultimately leads to a stable situation: his recognition is com-
plex, but he finds a “new act” after he realizes that he is his father (in one
instance, he is embodied in his father who is living on the street): “I am
my father. . . . Who can survive such a revelation? It was father love and
father shame and father rage that killed Hamlet. Imagine a new act”
(Flight, 150–51).
In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Alexie further
fleshes out the relationship that links reading, creativity, and self-empow-
erment. For Junior—Alexie’s narrator and diary writer—reading and
writing (and drawing) are important vehicles for expressing and/or
understanding his own life. Junior’s mother (like Alexie’s father) “still
xiv Jeff Berglund

reads books like crazy. She buys them by the pound. And she remem-
bers everything she reads. She can recite whole pages by memory. She’s a
human tape recorder.”7 Junior admits that he’s also a “book kisser” (ATD,
30). The entire novel is a record of his thoughts in journal form, inter-
mixed with sketches and jottings: “I draw because words are too unpre-
dictable. I draw because words are too limited. . . . So I draw because I
want to talk to the world. And I want the world to pay attention to me.
I feel important with a pen in my hand. I feel like I might grow up to be
somebody important. An artist. Maybe a famous artist. Maybe a rich art-
ist. . . . So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to
escape the reservation” (ATD, 5–6).
Junior befriends a white boy named Gordy at his new school in Rear-
dan, off the reservation, who teaches him—he claims—how to read: “You
have to read a book three times before you know it.” Moreover, Gordy
recognizes that drawing helps Junior “navigate the river of the world”
(ATD, 95). Gordy tells him he should “read and draw because really good
books and cartoons give you a boner” (ATD, 96). Pointing at the school’s
library, he tells Junior that “the world, even the smallest parts of it, is
filled with things you don’t know” to which Junior responds,

So it’s like each of these books is a mystery. Every book is a mys-


tery. And if you read all the books ever written, it’s like you’ve
read one giant mystery. And no matter how much you learn,
you just keep on learning there is so much more you need to
learn. . . . Now doesn’t that give you a boner? . . . I don’t mean a
boner in the sexual sense. I don’t think you should run through
life with a real erect penis. But you should approach each
book—you should approach life—with the real possibility that
you might get a metaphorical boner at any point (ATD, 97).

After Junior endures the successive deaths of his sister and his grand-
mother, and his father has left on a “legendary drinking binge” to cope
with the death of his friend, Junior misses more than twenty days of
school. Unlike his mother, who looks for solace in church, Junior writes,
“I felt helpless and stupid. I needed books. I wanted books. And I drew
and drew and drew cartoons. I was mad at God; I was mad at Jesus”
An Introduction to Sherman Alexie xv

(ATD, 171). He reads Euripides’ Medea and learns something about the
nature of grief but comes to believe that he has cursed his family: “I had
left the tribe, and had broken something inside all of us, and I was now
being punished for that” (ATD, 173). During the process of healing, when
he learns that he is not personally accountable for the death of his loved
ones, Junior tries to inventory the little pieces of joy in his life by making
lists: favorite foods, favorite musicians, favorite basketball players, and
favorite books:

1. The Grapes of Wrath


2. Catcher in the Rye
3. Fat Kid Rules the World
4. Tangerine
5. Feed
6. Catalyst
7. Invisible Man
8. Fools Crow
9. Jar of Fools (ATD, 177)

Books by John Steinbeck, J. D. Salinger, K. L. Going, Edward Bloor,


M. T. Anderson, Laurie Halse Anderson, Ralph Ellison, James Welch, and
Jason Lutes explore the experience of being disenfranchised or alienated
and the desire to find a home, a place to belong. Junior works his way
through grief by “making list after list of the things that made me feel
joy. And I kept drawing cartoons of the things that made me angry. I keep
writing and rewriting, drawing and redrawing, and rethinking and revis-
ing and reediting. It became my grieving ceremony” (ATD, 178).

So why do Indians sing ’49s’? We sing them for the same reason
all musicians make music: to tell stories, to pray to God,
to curse God, to cry in our beers or our Kool-Aid, to have fun
with the guys or girls, to get laid, to get attention, to protest,
to make money, to connect with other human beings.
—Sherman Alexie, screenplay for 49?
xvi Jeff Berglund

There is a whole other population out there I want to reach. And so


for me, what kind of art can I create that gets to them? I don’t want
to have an elitist career. I’ve won awards, I’ve gotten a lot of atten-
tion, I’ve been in The New Yorker, and I’m very happy with all of
that. I’m very proud. But I would consider myself a failure if more
people didn’t read me. I’d rather be accessible than win a MacArthur.
—Sherman Alexie, “What It Means to Be Sherman Alexie”8

Contributors to this book and their students are only a small portion
of the readers—nationally and globally—who have had the pleasure of
following the brilliant comet trail of Alexie’s career. He is now among
the most widely read and consistently popular American Indian writers.
Early in his career, Alexie claimed that he was writing books to interest
the sort of young Native reader he once was: “If Indian literature can’t
be read by the average 12-year-old kid living on the reservation, what the
hell good is it? You couldn’t take any of [Vizenor’s] books to the rez and
teach them, without extreme protestation. What is an Indian kid going
to do with the first paragraph of any of those books?”9 But following the
release of his film The Business of Fancydancing (2002)—reacting in part
to the homophobic dismissal by Native audiences—Alexie said that his
dependable audience nowadays is quite different from the one he envi-
sioned earlier: “You know who I depend on? There are about 75,000 col-
lege-educated white women in the country who buy all of my books and
go to all of my movies. I mean, if I had to depend on Indians for a career?
No way! No chance.”10 Despite such defensive comments, it seems clear
that in writing his novels for young adults—another one is slated for
release in 2010—Alexie hasn’t given up on reaching the young “Indian
kid” he once was.
Alexie’s first books of poetry—The Business of Fancydancing and I
Would Steal Horses—were published in 1992 and laid the foundation
for future success. In 1993 his first collection of short stories—The Lone
Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven—earned a PEN/Hemingway Award
for best first book of fiction. He went on to be named one of Granta’s
best young American novelists and received the Before Columbus Foun-
dation’s American Book Award for his first novel, Reservation Blues,
An Introduction to Sherman Alexie xvii

published in 1995. His short fiction has often appeared in The New Yorker
and has been selected for inclusion in both the annual O’Henry Award
and Best American Short Story collections.
Readers of Alexie’s twenty-one published books (including screen-
plays and poetry chapbooks) will likely concur that his literary talents
express themselves in multiple genres. His early collections more often
included several genres than his work since 1998, though War Dances
(winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction in 2010) is liberally inter-
spersed with poetry, most of which employs formal poetic conventions.
A number of the prose pieces within War Dances defy easy categoriza-
tion, raising questions about whether they are nonfictional essays, prose
poems, or experimental short fiction; the possibly autobiographical “I”
of the implied speaker of most of the conventional poetry also rubs up
against the narrating “I” of the more experimental prose pieces. The edi-
tors of this collection—Jan Roush and I—believe that readers will be
most rewarded with intertextual readings—readings across the genres of
Alexie’s works—to find intricate reworkings and meditations on common
themes, emblems, and motifs, as well as characters. Alexie’s multigenre
interests remind readers of other contemporary Native writers who have
published poetry and fiction: N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko,
Louise Erdrich, James Welch, and Simon Ortiz.
Alexie’s inventive style conveys to readers his characters’ suffer-
ing and anguish but also the enduring power of humor and imagina-
tion. His most well-known character—Thomas Builds-the-Fire from
The Lone Ranger, Reservation Blues, and the film Smoke Signals—illus-
trates the power of storytelling to connect the past, present, and future;
to reinvent traditional forms; and to infuse tragedy with a dose of laugh-
ter and a refusal to submit to traumatizing forces. Alexie again explores
this subject in Face (2009) in his poem with the double-edged meaning:
“Comedy Is a Funny Way of Being Serious.” Scholar P. Jane Hafen (Taos
Pueblo) notes in her essay in this collection that she enjoys Alexie’s writ-
ings because “they make me laugh. In the face of dismal reservation life
and urban crises of self, community, and identity, he can make me laugh,
often by inverting imagery and turning inside jokes. He helps make the
pain bearable.”11
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- Note: Important consideration
Formula: [Mathematical expression or equation]
[Figure 10: Diagram/Chart/Graph]
Module 2: Literature review and discussion
Definition: Statistical analysis and interpretation
• Historical development and evolution
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
Important: Research findings and conclusions
• Study tips and learning strategies
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Note: Study tips and learning strategies
• Experimental procedures and results
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
[Figure 13: Diagram/Chart/Graph]
Important: Research findings and conclusions
• Fundamental concepts and principles
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
Formula: [Mathematical expression or equation]
Remember: Theoretical framework and methodology
• Theoretical framework and methodology
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Formula: [Mathematical expression or equation]
Remember: Literature review and discussion
• Problem-solving strategies and techniques
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Practice Problem 16: Key terms and definitions
• Current trends and future directions
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Formula: [Mathematical expression or equation]
Note: Assessment criteria and rubrics
• Practical applications and examples
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Example 18: Research findings and conclusions
• Comparative analysis and synthesis
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Note: Best practices and recommendations
• Critical analysis and evaluation
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Abstract 3: Case studies and real-world applications
Definition: Literature review and discussion
• Research findings and conclusions
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
[Figure 21: Diagram/Chart/Graph]
Definition: Assessment criteria and rubrics
• Critical analysis and evaluation
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Important: Interdisciplinary approaches
• Key terms and definitions
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
Formula: [Mathematical expression or equation]
Key Concept: Learning outcomes and objectives
• Learning outcomes and objectives
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
Definition: Key terms and definitions
• Problem-solving strategies and techniques
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Formula: [Mathematical expression or equation]
Example 25: Learning outcomes and objectives
• Research findings and conclusions
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Definition: Problem-solving strategies and techniques
• Current trends and future directions
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Key Concept: Interdisciplinary approaches
• Problem-solving strategies and techniques
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Practice Problem 28: Practical applications and examples
• Literature review and discussion
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Formula: [Mathematical expression or equation]
[Figure 29: Diagram/Chart/Graph]
Key Concept: Experimental procedures and results
• Critical analysis and evaluation
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Formula: [Mathematical expression or equation]
[Figure 30: Diagram/Chart/Graph]
Unit 4: Experimental procedures and results
Remember: Practical applications and examples
• Critical analysis and evaluation
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Remember: Current trends and future directions
• Best practices and recommendations
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
[Figure 32: Diagram/Chart/Graph]
Note: Critical analysis and evaluation
• Literature review and discussion
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
[Figure 33: Diagram/Chart/Graph]
Remember: Study tips and learning strategies
• Comparative analysis and synthesis
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
[Figure 34: Diagram/Chart/Graph]
Key Concept: Literature review and discussion
• Key terms and definitions
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
[Figure 35: Diagram/Chart/Graph]
Note: Statistical analysis and interpretation
• Learning outcomes and objectives
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
Formula: [Mathematical expression or equation]
Note: Interdisciplinary approaches
• Current trends and future directions
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Formula: [Mathematical expression or equation]
Remember: Statistical analysis and interpretation
• Assessment criteria and rubrics
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Definition: Historical development and evolution
• Key terms and definitions
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
Practice Problem 39: Literature review and discussion
• Case studies and real-world applications
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
[Figure 40: Diagram/Chart/Graph]
References 5: Learning outcomes and objectives
Key Concept: Statistical analysis and interpretation
• Key terms and definitions
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
Key Concept: Theoretical framework and methodology
• Best practices and recommendations
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Example 42: Key terms and definitions
• Study tips and learning strategies
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Important: Key terms and definitions
• Interdisciplinary approaches
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Definition: Case studies and real-world applications
• Key terms and definitions
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Formula: [Mathematical expression or equation]
Example 45: Assessment criteria and rubrics
• Problem-solving strategies and techniques
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Practice Problem 46: Best practices and recommendations
• Experimental procedures and results
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
Key Concept: Literature review and discussion
• Experimental procedures and results
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Important: Learning outcomes and objectives
• Current trends and future directions
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Remember: Statistical analysis and interpretation
• Ethical considerations and implications
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
[Figure 50: Diagram/Chart/Graph]
Module 6: Statistical analysis and interpretation
Key Concept: Comparative analysis and synthesis
• Study tips and learning strategies
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
Example 51: Current trends and future directions
• Ethical considerations and implications
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Definition: Research findings and conclusions
• Statistical analysis and interpretation
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
Important: Study tips and learning strategies
• Statistical analysis and interpretation
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
Formula: [Mathematical expression or equation]
Practice Problem 54: Problem-solving strategies and techniques
• Research findings and conclusions
- Sub-point: Additional details and explanations
- Example: Practical application scenario
- Note: Important consideration
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