Browsing by Subject "Language, Rhetoric and Composition."
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Activity, certainty, optimism, and realism: The verbal style in televised presidential campaign commercials.
(1997)Presidential campaign commercials have been analyzed to determine their effectiveness with respect to length and style. However, to this point, no study has attempted to count and categorize the words used in the commercials. ... -
Are we speaking the same language: Exploring meaning construction in a first-year composition classroom.
(1997)Data revealed that disjunctions occurred between the teacher's intentions for making the assignments and the students interpretations of the assignments on some level with all three essays. Data analysis also indicated ... -
Colonizing consumer culture: A semiotic analysis of the Korean advertising.
(1997)Jeans ads provide an excellent example of how Western consumer culture has influenced Korean advertising and raise the issue of cultural colonization. Essentially, jeans retain traces of their Americanness wherever they ... -
A comparative content analysis of the additions and amendments to the primary treaties of the European Union: Reflecting the manifestation of an evolving shared vision within the European Union.
(2006)This research focuses on the development of the European Union and on the primary treaties that have been adopted over time and have helped define the goals and structure of the European Union. A comparative content analysis ... -
Computer-mediated communication in collaborative writing.
(1998)The purpose of this study was to determine if using computers to communicate during group writing tasks is an effective mode of communication. Three-person teams wrote term papers in one of the following media styles: ... -
Culture, politics and television: A cross-cultural comparative study of Korean and United States televised presidential debates.
(2000)This dissertation treats televised presidential debates as a mirror of culture. However, the study sees the televised presidential debate as a traditionally Western or American political event. The televised presidential ... -
Dangerous eloquence: Hate speech tactics in the discourse of Asa/Forrest Carter from 1954--1974.
(2004)This study takes as its subject the political life and writings of Asa Earl Carter and the literary writings he produced under the name Forrest Carter during the period of 1954 through 1974. As part of this study, I offer ... -
DIALOGICAL APPROACHES TO ENHANCING DISCUSSION, WRITING, AND THINKING IN A RURAL UNIVERSITY
(2017-05)This action research self study explored how dialogic instruction influenced 21 freshman composition students’ quality of discussion, writing practices, and ability to critical think and reflect on their learning. The study ... -
Disability and College Composition: Investigating Access, Identity, and Rhetorics of Ableism
(2014-05-09)This dissertation analyzes the accessibility and accommodation experiences of students with disabilities in college writing classrooms at a Midwestern public research university. The study argues that writing teachers need ... -
Emerging voices of undergraduate writers: A study of the phenomenon of writing changes during the college years.
(2007)College faculty can support the growth of undergraduate writers by establishing a learning community focused on learning as motivation. Conferences that provide specific, concrete suggestions, as well as leading questions, ... -
Ethos and the politics of habit: Class, character, and coercion in Aristotelian rhetorics.
(1998)Middle-class professional ethos has undergone significant shifts from the "personality market" described by Erich Fromm and C. Wright Mills to the postmodern knowledge worker or "symbolic analyst" described by Robert Reich. ... -
Excluding the masses: Aptitude in classical and modern rhetorical theory.
(2003)In my discussions of how aptitude operates in the composition theory of the United States, I explore current-traditional, expressivist, and social rhetorics. Although classical commonplaces persist, I argue that American ... -
Folklore motifs in persuasive gender writings: An interrogation.
(2000)One of the difficulties faced by modern gender writers and scholars stems from the fact that modern conventions of what constitute valid modes of rhetoric and reasoning and valid scientific and scholarly paradigms were ... -
From orality to literacy: The intellectual traditions of black South African women.
(2003)Black women in South Africa have a long history of intellectualism as evidenced by their expertise as oral performers, rehearsing and revitalizing vibrant storytelling traditions that have been inherited by matrilineal ... -
A genre of survivance: narrative criticism of boarding school stories
(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 ... -
Gumbo Banaha Stories: Louisiana Indigeneities and the Transnational South
(2014-05-09)Abstract Post devastation of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Louisiana has again become a popular exoticized presence in the American entertainment machine. As a result, scholarly studies have renewed interest in the historic ... -
How the Medical, Legal, and Religious Systems Shaped Gender for Hermaphrodites and Gender Nonconformists to Suppress Trans Presence and Enforce Heterosexuality
(2024-05-10)Although sexuality is widely accepted across the United States, being transgender or a gender nonconformist is not. Those across the LGBTQ+ spectrum are not on equal footing and many wonder why. Members of the transgender ... -
Is there anybody out there? Toward an audience-oriented writing pedagogy.
(2001)In chapter one I explore the history of audience as a theoretical construct within rhetorical and composition studies. I argue that James Porter's work in particular has caused audience to be conceived of in a managerial ... -
Learning to Live a Rhetorical Life: A New Strategy for Teaching First-Year Composition
(2022-12-16)Finding a Pedagogical Path to a Rhetorical Life: The received history of first-year composition (FYC) pedagogy seems to present itself in almost Darwinian evolutionary terms, first emerging from the swamp of Susan Miller’s ... -
The life and work of Gretel Karplus/Adorno: Her contributions to Frankfurt School theory.
(2004)This dissertation uses the insights of contemporary rhetorical theory and feminist biography to acknowledge the contributions of Gretel Karplus/Adorno to the productivity of her husband, Theodor W. Adorno, of her dear ...