Browsing by Author "Mountford, Roxanne"
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"Creation Care is a Matter of Life": The Rhetoric of Pro-Life Evangelical Environmentalism
Woodward, Jordan (2017-05-12)Evangelical groups have often been considered politically conservative on issues such as climate change and abortion. However, some evangelical groups employ pro-life rhetoric as a tool to influence pro-life evangelicals ... -
Deep in the heart of Texas: nostalgia's ethos in public discourse
Prince, Kalyn (2022-05)This project argues that nostalgia operates rhetorically as an argument of ethos and that its function within public arguments provides the field of rhetoric an opportunity to reimagine how ethos is produced within political ... -
A genre of survivance: narrative criticism of boarding school stories
Patton, Noah (2020-05-08)Using narrative rhetorical analysis, this thesis examines two popular American Indian autobiographies to analyze the rhetorical impact. By applying Frye's genre theory, I argue that American Indians surpass genre conventions ... -
IN(CORPS)ORATING MARINE IDENTITY: EMBODIED RHETORICS IN UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS RECRUIT TRAINING
McRay, Mandi (2018)The United States Marine Corps exists within American popular consciousness as a famed fighting force renowned for its unapologetic and well-earned reputation. Its recruit training process, colloquially known as "boot ... -
Podcast Rhetorics: Insights into Podcasts as Public Persuasion
Jacobson, Matthew (2021-08)Asserting that professional podcasts serve as an important platform for arguments regarding issues of public importance, Podcast Rhetorics advances rhetoric and writing studies scholarship by moving beyond the dominant ... -
PROCEDURAL FEMINISM AND SLOW ARGUMENT: THE VALUE OF LISTENING IN FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION
Woody, Cassandra (2017-05-12)This essay argues that program-wide curriculum planning can benefit from feminist practices that have come from the past decade’s feminist rhetorical theory, such as Krista Ratcliffe’s work on rhetorical listening and the ... -
The Risks of Rhetoricity: Accounting for Intellectual Disability in the Rhetorical Tradition
Barritt, Anna (2023-08-04)I am troubled by the notion that what specialists in my field call “rhetoricity”—the quality of being able to assess an audience and effectively influence their thinking—is what separates humans (“rhetors”) from non-humans. ...