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Casting our problems into space: Exploring the intersection of science fiction and possible worlds theory
(2020-07-06)Science fiction is a genre which is centered around the exploration of new or complex ideas within the unique testing landscape of the worlds imagined in these novels. Possible worlds theory is a subset of narrative theory ... -
Are you America? Pretty bias, totally infamous
(2020-06-23)This web based projected seeks to explore the way Sacha Baron Cohen's Show "Who is America?" disrupts our traditional understanding of performative and rhetorical practices.Through his encounters with his guests, Baron ... -
Civil society and civil discourse: Eloquence and hope in the communications of presidents Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Barack Obama
(2020-05-20)During times of difficulty, Americans traditionally turn towards the President for guidance and leadership. The trope of hope is a critical part of achieving these goals. Hope is the attitude of mind that is based on the ... -
This ocean of texts: The history of blackout poetry
(2020-06-25)Blackout poetry is an independent category of poetry from erasure poetry; however, a majority of current literature does not acknowledge this. The conflation of the two has led to blackout poetry being minimally covered ... -
Alice's Adventures in adaptation: The evolution of power in children's and young adult literature
(2020-07-22)In this thesis I have analyzed the evolution of power in children’s and Young Adult literature through Lewis Carroll’s children’s novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Carroll’s novel is one that has been adapted ... -
The rhetoric of silence in the captivity narratives of four American women
(2020-04-30)Historically, women have been silenced and dismissed. Women have been regarded as suspect and, even, harassed if they have stepped beyond societally-presecribed and highly gendered parameters. Furthermore, women have been ... -
Identity and the ethos of survivance in selected novels by Louise Erdrich
(2019-11-04)The word “survivance” is a portmanteau of the words “survival” and “defiance.” Gerald Vizenor coined the term for the rhetorical theory he created in the 1970s to encourage the preservation of Native American culture, ... -
Communicative Composition
(2018-10-03)The purpose of this study was to synthesize a working theory of composition for the enhancement of communication literacy. Communicative Composition was built on the four pillars of personal, process, collaborative, and ... -
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 ...
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