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Remediating the metalanguage of multiliteracy in alphacentric discourse: A genre analysis of instructional materials in regional first-year composition programs
(2021-08-25)For over two and a half decades now, Scholars such as Cynthia Selfe (1988), The New London Group (1996), Stuart Selber (2004), and many others referenced in this dissertation, advocated for multiliteracy curricula while ... -
“Everything is true here, even if it’s not”: Reconsidering fictionality in Reddit’s r/Nosleep
(2021-08-20)The rise of digital participatory cultures has corresponded with new online discourse communities, each with their own languages, genres, and communicative norms. This thesis represents a detailed examination of one online ... -
The rhetoric of protest in the Supreme Court case of Hansberry v. Lee and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
(2021-08-02)ABSTRACT ANGELA JOHNSON THE RHETORIC OF PROTEST IN THE SUPREME COURT CASE OF HANSBERRY V. LEE AND LORRAINE HANSBERRY’S A RAISIN IN THE SUN AUGUST 2021 This research study examines the rhetoric of protest in the legal ... -
A study of human connections through terministic screens and narrative strategies in selected works of Sarah Orne Jewett
(2021-07-28)Nineteenth-century American author Sarah Orne Jewett provides a voice for undervalued cultures and illustrates the significance of these cultures in her narratives. This study examines human connections in Jewett’s ... -
Necro-rhetorics: Agency, ethical interventions, and the digital corpse
(2021-07-12)Digital legacies and immortality have never been more important to our lives than they are now. The growing connection between technology and mourning necessitates the critical examination of our digital literacies in ... -
Identification, division, and understanding in contact zones: Using Vietnam, Long Time Coming to explore the rhetorical power of invitation
(2021-07-27)In America, our military combat veterans are considered a vulnerable population, and in 2016, they were number four on the nation’s list of the top ten most disparate communities. The Vietnam War veteran leads by the ... -
Writing the Republic: *First* First Ladies
(2021-06-10)While much has been written about our nation’s first First Ladies, not much attention has been paid to the rhetoric of these women. As the New Republic worked to build and create a democracy, Martha Washington, Abigail ... -
The changing horizon of composition studies: An examination of the influences of collaborative an online pedagogies on first-year college writing
(2011)Scholarship involving writing process theories and composition pedagogies undertaken in the last 25 years suggests that the writing-as-process model has experienced and will continue to experience significant change. The ... -
Disrupting the commonplace during uncommon times: Teaching critical literacy skills in 2020
(2021-05-19)The purpose of this study was to document how Texas teachers are teaching critical literacy skills during the COVID-19 global pandemic and the resulting national educational crisis of the early 20s, both of which have ... -
A Developmental English shuffle: Analyzing the impact of one Texas community college’s shift from multi-level stand-alone offerings to corequisite courses
(2021-04-05)Developmental English (DE) has been under fire from critics who think it acts as a barrier rather than as a support to the success of students placing into DE. In Texas, such pressures led to a wave of reforms and changes ... -
First-year college students' processes of composing multimodal compositions: Finding wonderment and phantasia
(2021-03-03)Today’s college instructors realize that student literacy involves more than just proficient reading and writing skills because literacy now encompasses digital rhetoric. The art of rhetoric is the faculty of observing the ... -
It’s complicated: The rhetorical uses of cross-dressing in Restoration closet drama written by aristocratic women
(2021-02-01)The use of closet drama as a mode of theatrical writing gained significant popularity during the London theater closure of 1642-1660. After the ban had been lifted, several writers still chose to use this form for their ... -
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 ...
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