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What we write about when we write about literacy: Identity, ideology, and culture in college writing classrooms
(2007-07)
Scope and Method of Study: This study examines the writing of 30 students in two writing classes at Oklahoma State University to determine the cultural forces behind their literacy practices.
"Higher sphere of thought": Emerson's use of the exemplum and exemplum fidei
(2005-12)
Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this study was to demonstrate how many of the beliefs of the minister continued to influence Ralph Waldo Emerson's articulation of transcendentalist tenets beginning with the ...
Creating accessible websites: Developing a fire safety website for teenagers who are deaf or hard of hearing
(2008-12)
Scope and Method of Study: This study used three research phases to create an effective fire safety website for deaf teenagers. Participants were students in grades 7-12 from the Oklahoma School for the Deaf. First, 50 ...
Sisters and the Undertaker's Son: A novel manuscript with a critical introduction
(2010-12)
"The Sisters and The Undertaker's Son" is a first-person narrative about a fifteen-year-old girl, Shine, from a small town in central Illinois. The time is Christmas, 1979. At the opening of the book, Shine's family goes ...
Technology diffusion and the beef industry: A communication investigation
(2007-07)
This dissertation investigates the effects of technology diffusion, communication networks, communication theory, and linguistic principles upon the acceptance of the National Animal Identification System and its accompanying ...
Cultures of corruption: British libertinism and its colonial manifestations
(2009-05)
Scope and Method of Study: My dissertation treats Britain's colonization of India and examines how it produced a particularly subversive western influence among upper-class Bengali men, illustrating in particular the many ...