Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Sydney Jordan about Americans' obsession with health advice during pregnancy. Includes a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, informants (pregnant women) giving and receiving advice from various sources, such as doctors, parents, older friends, as well listing the advice they actually followed, or why they didn't follow it. Also includes modern myths and fads about pregnancy (2010) and information about WIC (Women, Infants and Children). Prepared for her Spring 2010...

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Donkin, a member of one of BYU's a capella groups called Noteworthy, became interested in folklore passed around within and between all a capella groups at BYU. In this project, she takes a closer look at jokes, traditions, and rituals that have together made up the heart of these a capella groups. Created by Jackie Donkin while enrolled in Jacqueline Thursby's English 391 course during winter semester 2007 at Brigham Young University.

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Tichy interviewed converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints about the details of their conversion. Project includes spiritual feelings, and physical difficulties that came with the decision to join the Church. Project was created for Dr. Rudy's English 391 course taught at Brigham Young University in 1998.

Scope and Contents note Cooper-Leavitt presents several anthropological theories of language and relates these theories to the childhood project of constructing reality, analyzing this reality-constructing language process in order to determine the factors accounting for the difference between childhood and adult perceptions of reality. In order to apply and explore the implications of these theories, Cooper-Leavitt conducts a native ethnography of her brothers' language mistakes and experiences. She concludes that...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Kathy Titze for her Summer 1971 English 391 class. About the child's world and its oral traditions and invention, as well as children's collectin of rhymes, chants, riddle songs, and games. Contains a cover essay, list of informants, autobiographical sketch, and informant items. Items include chants such as teeter-totter, fatty fatty, tattle-tale, child games such as chin chopper, patty cake, step on a crack, buzzy bee, This little piggy, rhymems such as Not last...

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Williams collected traditions practiced by families at Christmas. Included are traditions that are family oriented, that encourage service, and that encourage pride in one's heritage. The project was written for an English class taught by Dr. Eliason at Brigham Young University in 1999.

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Echols collected stories of cooking mistakes and accidents. Included are stories of forgetting to grease a baking pan, confusing evaporated and sweetened condensed fudge, and feeding culinary mistakes to the family dog who then throws up. The project was written for Dr. Eliason's English 391 class taught at Brigham Young University in 1998.

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Timothy J. Shultz collected personal narratives about rock climbing and climber's folklore from Pat Ament. Included are stories about specific rock climbers, misadventures, good luck, death, women, and other miscellaneous stories. Project was written for an 392 class taught at Brigham Young University during Winter semester 1996.

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Forsyth collected printed humorous lore from her workplace at the Waterford Institute, a company that designs and creates educational software. Included are internet forwards that make fun of engineers by listing attributes specific to programmers, a funny system problem report form making fun of users, and jokes relating to different computer producing companies. The project was written for an English 392 class taught at Brigham Young University in 1997.

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Conklin collected jump-rope rhymes sung by children on the playground. Included are activity rhymes, jump in-jump out rhymes, endurance rhymes, and non-activity sing-song rhymes. Project was created for an English 392 course taught at Brigham Young University in 1975.