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Efficacy of incorporating text-to-speech in the composition classroom
(2019-09-25)Many First Year Composition (FYC) students tend to focus on correcting Lower Order Concerns (LOCs) when reviewing their essays but addressing these types of errors only represents part of effective academic writing. Research ... -
Digital games as interactive narrative and their eversion: The advent of future narrative
(2019-09-27)In the field of studying digital mediums (hypertext, social media, digital games, electronic literature, et cetera), digital games’ narrativity is lively being discussed by ludologists and narratologists, focusing on whether ... -
An exploration in phronesis and ethos: Transgressing boundaries of gender, ethnicity, and class for (non)traditional African American women
(2008-08)This qualitative study examines how phronesis enables nontraditional African American women students to construct ethos in their discourse by establishing the link between sociocultural factors in their social lives and ... -
Hang on to yourself: Bowie, Burke, and the rhetoric of stage persona
(2019-02-07)This study uses Kenneth Burke’s concepts and theories to examine the rhetorical implications of David Bowie’s use of the stage persona Ziggy Stardust in order to better understand how stage personae affect performers and ... -
Tilting the stage: Adaptation to and from the theatre
(2019-06-27)Although adaptations of media are ubiquitous in our society, little attention is paid by the general public as to why these adaptations have come into being. Because of this, this thesis seeks to understand what can be ... -
The relationship between desire and destiny in selected stories from Isak Dinesen's Winter's Tales
(2019-06-11)Isak Dinesen’s writing is characterized by the theme of destiny. Past analyses of Dinesen’s treatment of destiny oppose the concept to desire, arguing that Dinesen advocates “acceptance” of God’s plan at the expense of ... -
The theatre in Fort Worth, 1870-1899
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Elements of voice in student composition
(2014-08)Voice. That elusive quality desired by composition instructors. That indefinable characteristic identified on many large-scale essay scoring rubrics. This study is an attempt to reconcile the disparate views of voice in ... -
New media and the inverted classroom: Investigating their impact on women in first-year composition
(2013-12)Prompted by the emergence of financially accessible new media composing technologies and calls from composition specialists to redefine literacy practices in the writing classroom, a number of instructors have modified ... -
The rhetoric of distance education
(1999-08)Higher education is currently undergoing a paradigm shift, moving from the medieval model to a newer model based on the characteristics of distance education. This change can best be observed in the rhetoric of the documents ... -
An exploratory study of reflective journaling in a college composition I course
(2019-01-02)This exploratory study investigates the impact of directed reflective journaling in a first-year college English Composition course. Student reflections were analyzed for self-regulatory behaviors, evidence of skills ... -
Vehicle of the bizarre: Narrative power and depiction of loss of innocence in selected short fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
(2019-01-24)The purpose of this study is to identify and articulate a common narrative formula found in a selection of the fictional works of Edgar Allan Poe and to argue its significance in terms of reader influence and reception. ... -
Gender, economic agency, and social class: A rhetorical analysis of Pearl Buck's The House of Earth Trilogy through the dramatistic pentad of Kenneth Burke
(2018-09-13)ABSTRACT NIMMY NAIR GENDER, ECONOMIC AGENCY, AND SOCIAL CLASS: A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF PEARL BUCK’S THE HOUSE OF EARTH TRILOGY THROUGH THE DRAMATISTIC PENTAD OF KENNETH BURKE DECEMBER 2018 For over two hundred years ... -
Borders, space, and liminality in Dorothy West's "The Living is Easy" and Rudolf Fisher's "The Walls of Jericho"
(2014-08)In The Living Is Easy and The Walls of Jericho , novelists Dorothy West and Rudolf Fisher offer ethnographical treatments of 1930s Boston and Harlem. Along with focusing on the interracial divide in these writings, the ... -
Making love on the River Anthropocene
(2018-08-28)We are bodies of water, flowing in and out of space and time. We are deep time, for we belong to the ruts and grooves of the universe. We are never anything but vulnerable and at-risk of annihilation. We are livingdying, ... -
A rhetorical analysis of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia
(2018-08-31)In this thesis, I analyze Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica in the framework of Aristotle’s theories of rhetoric. Despite the long-held view that science only deals with brute facts and does not ... -
Kairos and chronotope: The connected rhetoric of Margaret Fuller
(2009-12)Margaret Fuller published two books and over 250 essays, and she worked as a journalist for the New York Tribune at a time when few women had such access to the public. Despite her prolific record of publication, however, ... -
The rhetoric of economic agency and gender of leading female characters in selected works of Lillian Hellman
(2010-08)In many of her plays, Lillian Hellman depicts situations related to women and economic equality in American society during the early twentieth century. Many of Hellman's dramatic works focus on family life, demonstrate to ... -
The modern alienated male: A comparison of Dostoevsky and Palahniuk
(2003-12)This paper compares the main characters in the novels Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. Both the differences and similarities between the two characters are the subject of ...
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