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A Developmental English shuffle: Analyzing the impact of one Texas community college’s shift from multi-level stand-alone offerings to corequisite courses
(4/5/2021)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 ... -
A rhetorical analysis of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia
(8/31/2018)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 ... -
A study of human connections through terministic screens and narrative strategies in selected works of Sarah Orne Jewett
(7/28/2021)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 ... -
Absence and rhetorical (non) circulation: "Nasty woman" Kamala Harris in 2020
(2022-08-01)This project is an activist one that adds to digital scholarship, applies to praxis in writing classrooms, and has the potential to inform future political practices. In particular, this project traces the absence, presence, ... -
Academic research, professional discourse: Social bookmarking as a catalyst for rhetorical research pedagogies
(2011-05-30)This qualitative study investigates social bookmarking as a tool for college writers to invent comprehensive, real-world arguments. Teaching research as a sub-process of invention and enhancing the inventive process with ... -
Addison's influence on the social reform of his age
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Ahab: A Promethean hero
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Alejandro Casona: Una nota de armonia despues del desengano
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Alfred Lord Tennyson: social critic
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Algunos aspectos de la obra de Federico Garcia Lorca
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Alice's adventures in adaptation: The evolution of power in children's and young adult literature
(7/22/2020)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 ... -
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass": A Menippean assessment and rhetorical analysis of Carroll's Alice books
(1987-12-30)Since Lewis Carroll published Alice in Wonderland in 1865 and Through the Looking-Glass in 1872, critics, psychologists, philosophers, and the general audience have sought to isolate and categorize his stylistic form. ... -
American arete: The man of steel as a rhetorical model
(2014-02-12)There have many criticisms and explorations of Superman throughout his 75 plus year history. The character has become so engrained in the American psyche and culture that he is almost instantly recognizable. However, through ... -
An exploratory study of reflective journaling in a college composition I course
(1/2/2019)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 ... -
An analysis of "Citizen of the World"
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An analysis of frustration in selected novels of Edith Wharton
(1977-05-30)Although one may appraise a work of literature as to theme, structure, characterization, and plot and may determine its merits solely by concentrating on that work alone, ignoring the author as a person and the period ... -
An analysis of some literary devices in Madeleine L'Engle's "A Wrinkle in Time"
(1988-08-30)The purpose of this study is to consider Madeleine L'Engle's place in the literary tradition; lacking such establishment, critical work on L'Engle's work cannot go forward. The brief being supported is that L'Engle's sources ... -
An analysis of style in selected works of Edgar A. Poe
(1977-12-30)