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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
(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 ...
Public punishment versus private judgment: Anti-gallows sentiment and criminal reform in antebellum literature 1772-1855
(2012-05)
Scope and Method of Study: Drawing upon historical, sociological, and cultural studies, this dissertation addresses how the literary work of antebellum American writers contributed to anti-capital punishment sentiment and ...
Composing place
(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 ...
Associative model of code switching: Mandarin-Taiwanese code switching in spoken media discourse in Taiwan
(2015-05)
This dissertation proposes an associative model of CS to analyze the phenomena of code switching (CS). Specifically, the associative model of CS is applied to speakers' use of Taiwanese in Mandarin-dominant spoken media ...
Test-taking strategy use on the reading section of the TOEFL-iBT: A study of Arab ESL learners
(2011-07)
Scope and Method of the Study: With the focus on how a sample of 25 Arab ESL learners respond to the TOEFL-iBT reading tasks, this study aimed to find out what strategies respondents tend to use, investigate if there are ...
Increasing genre awareness in students in the first-year composition classroom at a two-year college
(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 ...
Rhetoric of strength in writing studies and American culture
(2015-12)
This project aims to uncover, explore, and complicate a definition of the concept of strength as it occurs in writing studies and in American culture. To begin, I examine semiotics and rhetorical structures of strength, ...
Comparison of the speech patterns and dialect attitudes of Oklahoma
(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 ...
Mexican English teachers' identity negotiations: A narrative study
(2016-05)
This study examines how five Mexican EFL teachers negotiated their professional identities while interacting with ideologies implicit in social practices, power relations, and discourse. I approached teachers' identities ...
Case for rap music pedagogy in composition
(2010-05)
Scope and Method of Study: This dissertation explored the feasibility of a rap music pedagogy for "all" students. After reviewing the literature and critical scholarship, I emerged skeptical about the claims made by some ...