Early American women rhetoricians wrote, published, and edited essential texts that contribute to American rhetoric; however, many of these texts have been overlooked and lost. This dissertation reclaims, remaps, and ...

New α,β-unsaturated hydroximoyl chlorides and hydroximates were synthesized and characterized. 13C NMR, 1H NMR, IR and elemental analysis were determined for each new compound. The kinetics of methoxide ion substitution ...

This dissertation examines how the term back-to-basics became a metaphor that drove a decade's conversations about teaching writing. It traces how political ruminations about the state of education affected the public's ...

Throughout history, religion and literature have offered patterns that allow people to acquire an understanding of the individual and his or her role within society as well as the universe. In the three novels of his Border ...

This dissertation presents an exploratory study of the interrelationships among Chinese fundamental modes of traditional thinking, linguistic features, and rhetorical patterns that are relevant to the understanding of ...

Joseph Campbell claims fairy tales, legends, and myths are phrases from an image-language that express metaphysical, psychological, and sociological truths. My thesis presents a study of Tim Burton's films using the hero's ...

In the last decade, the technological development of real time online communication via a personal computer and a modern has created a discourse environment that is witnessing rapid changes and mutations in language usage. ...

By employing the three progressive yet distinctive theoretical/rhetorical approaches to hypertext—poststructural, post-digital, and cinematic—as what Kenneth Burke refers to as terministic screens, this study examines the ...

Despite the numerous and exhaustive studies concerning families, poverty, and the history of American social welfare laws; in depth social science studies of welfare organizations and methods; and the more recent feminist ...

Technology has introduced many choices into the mix of written and spoken mediums. Electronic mediums, including speech-to-text technologies, must be brought into compositionists' conversations about literacy. What has not ...