Browsing by Author "Damron, Rebecca"
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Becoming a Faithful Academic: a Place for Latter-day Saint Pedagogy in Composition and Rhetoric
Hopkins, Steven Wayne (Oklahoma State University, 2012-05-01)This thesis begins as a creative non-fiction essay about the author's experiences in graduate-level English as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the struggles he faced to reconcile the theories ... -
Changes in the use of the passive voice over time: A historical look at the American Journal of Botany and the changes in the use of the passive voice from 1914-2008
Dumin, Laura Marie (2010-07)Scope and Method of Study: This study looks at 15 articles from the American Journal of Botany - 5 articles from 1914-1918, 5 articles from 1962-1966, and 5 articles from 2004-2008 - to determine if and how the use of the ... -
Comparison of the speech patterns and dialect attitudes of Oklahoma
Bakos, Jon (2013-07)The lexical dialect usage of Oklahoma has been well-studied in the past by the Survey of Oklahoma Dialects, but the acoustic speech production of the state has received little attention. Apart from two people from Tulsa ... -
Composing place
Pedersen, Steven M. (2015-12)In James Berlin's, Rhetoric, Poetics, and Cultures, he outlines how Social-Epistemic Rhetoric (SER) can inform composition theory and pedagogy. Much of Berlin's aim is to show how theories of SER can be used as a tool to ... -
Extending with bridges and Mapping maps: A Discourse Based Study of Metaphor in The Writing Center and Writing Classroom
Heasley, Phillip Kyle (Oklahoma State University, 2008-07-01)This thesis studies the use of metaphor in the writing center and writing classroom. Subjects included 2 instructors, 4 writing tutors and 18 freshmen students. Subjects were recorded during classroom and tutorial discourse ... -
Final draft feedback in first-year composition: A case study of non-native English speaking students in North America
Nash, J. Gail (2012-05)Scope and Method of Study: This dissertation examines final draft feedback in a first year composition class consisting of both native and non-native speakers of English (NES & NNES). The research was carried out by the ... -
From Theory to Praxis: Style, Dualism, and the Composition Classroom
Montin, Rachael A. (Oklahoma State University, 2011-07-01)Style, as a workable pedagogy, remains elusive to scholars, not for its lack of a definition, but because it seems to evoke a myriad of individual definitions. Further investigation into style literature reveals a gap ... -
Increasing genre awareness in students in the first-year composition classroom at a two-year college
Tate, Jeff (2015-05)This study investigates the use of the genre approach to teaching first-year composition in order to increase the genre awareness and transfer abilities of students. Previous research has shown that the genre approach is ... -
Making bricks without straw: Teaching and assessing new literacy skills at a small, private HBCU
Evans, Robin Lynn (2012-07)Scope and Method of Study: Scope of the study comprised a three-phase Participatory Action Research study of teaching and assessing New Literacy Skills in small, private HBCUs using open source tools -
Marks of Professionalism: Academic Women's Clothing Choices and Perceptions of Identity
Chapman, Rachel (2015-05-01)Guidelines surrounding �professional� dress in academic spaces can be implied or obvious, but instead of following a particular formula, these guidelines are viewed as a representation of professional accomplishment, ... -
Medicine and Morality: the Use of Rhetoric in Victorian Marriage and Child Rearing Manuals
Freeman, Staci Diane (Oklahoma State University, 2012-07-01)During the Victorian era, many changes occurred due to industrialization and political upheaval. At a time when the young were moving away from parental supervision to large cities for employment opportunities, the Victorians ... -
"My whole life is on my phone": How do you situate learning in a digital world?
Resler, Trina (2012-07)Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this teacher research study was to discover what happens in the classroom when high school social studies students enrolled in world history classes are asked to use text messaging ... -
Real Men Don't Pretend and Other Stories
Roberts, Jarod Cannon (2015-12-01)The collection centers on the conflict of idealism versus coming into contact with reality. In the three stories written in third person, characters from different cultures and socio-economic statuses must to grips with ... -
Relationship Between Speaking and Writing in College-Level ESL Students
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Resistance Within the Classroom Space: Teaching Contested Texts as Social Action
Canfield, Jeaneen Sussanne (Oklahoma State University, 2014-12-01)Drawing from classical rhetoric and from scholars such as Paulo Freire, James Berlin, Henry Giroux, Ira Shor, bell hooks, Kristi Fleckenstein, and others, I seek to interrogate pedagogical implications of incorporating ... -
Sylvia Plaths the Bell Jar as Disability Narrative
Maple, Jeni (Oklahoma State University, 2009-12-01)The purpose of this study was to explore the implications of disability theory for Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, a novel which has traditionally been read from a feminist perspective. Drawing on the work of many scholars ... -
Theorizing Literacy in the Service Industry: a Starbucks Case Study
Libby, Taylor (Oklahoma State University, 2014-05-01)This study relocates literacy, uprooting it from the classroom and placing it in the service industry, specifically Starbucks, in an attempt to examine the intersection of literacy and food service work. The first chapter ... -
What keeps me up at night: An autoethnography of new motherhood
Hull, Emily (2016-07)New motherhood is messy and wild and unstructured. Its shape, if motherhood has a shape, is amorphous and pliable like melted glass. This evocative autoethnography, a collection of experimental flash essays and reflective ...