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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 ... -
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: Resisting the neoliberalization of water and nature
(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 ...
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