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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 ... -
Some comparisons of the time and pitch characteristics of conversation and public address of selected speakers
(1941-06)This study examined the effects of the music on immediate improvements to on–task performance in children with attention difficulties. Specific modulated music designed by Therapeutic Listening was used as the intervention ... -
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 ... -
Visual fatigue as related to speechreading
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The rhetoric of public bodies: Resisting the norm/other binary
(2017-11-07)This dissertation develops a methodology to re-examine how we consider the embodiment of individuals across intersections of identity categories. Applying a constellation of theoretical perspectives that combines rhetorical, ... -
“Take her clothes off and bring her to me!": Examining the dialogic construction of women in Robert Altman's films
(2017-12-15)This research examines the women characters in Robert Altman’s feature films from 1967 through 2006. Considered one of the most influential American filmmakers of the late twentieth century, Altman’s career spans six decades ... -
Reading for empathy, reflecting for awareness: A pilot study for improving self and other awareness through writing
(2018-05-23)The recent popularity of the term “empathy” has generated a lot of discussion about how to gain empathetic awareness of the world around us. For composition studies, the student writer must have an empathetic awareness and ... -
Some notes towards a rhetoric of time travel
(2018-05-25)This project aims to examine time travel not as a scientific possibility, but as a narrative device employed towards various rhetorical aims. Drawing on Narratology, this project first establishes a terminology to discuss ...
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