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Rhetorical playbook: Football, race, rhetoric, and play possibility spaces of the American university
(2019-12)
This dissertation examines and defines the relationship of college football within the culture of the American university, especially at larger Division I athletic schools. In my first two chapters, I argue that universities ...
Exploring multimodal composing: A techno-pedagogical study
(2013-05)
This multimodal (also called digitally borne) text explores the variety of ways technology and multimodal compositions can be incorporated into classroom and work experience. Lessons learned are examined in the context of ...
Making bricks without straw: Teaching and assessing new literacy skills at a small, private HBCU
(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
Theory-Constitutive Metaphors, Similes, and Scientists' Narratives About Their Travel and/or Research Experience in Popular Science Articles: Examining Linguistic and Rhetorical Features
(2019-05-01)
Among popular science publications, the most common type is the Popular Science Article (PSA). The main purpose of PSAs is to convey the necessary scientific content in the form accessible to non-specialists. They also ...
Ecophilosophy of J.R.R. Tolkien: Rural, Urban, and Wilderness Roads to Conscientious Living and Environmental Guardianship
(2019-05-01)
A core message of J.R.R. Tolkien's canon concerning the human and non-human global community appears in The Lord of the Rings when Gandalf addresses the Captains of the West, as they prepare their plans to march on the ...
Predicting international teaching assistants' performance in a domain-specific test: The case of complexity, accuracy, fluency, and compensatory strategies
(2017-05)
International teaching assistant (ITA) assessment for screening purposes has gained crucial importance with the increase in the number of nonnative speaker graduate students across North American campuses. Although previous ...
Demille Indians: The Native American experience in classical Hollywood
(2018-05)
Native American actors in Studio Hollywood were engaged in extensive work to form and shape their persona through extensive off screen performance. An outsize presence in studio publicity provided Native actors with notoriety ...
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 ...
Final draft feedback in first-year composition: A case study of non-native English speaking students in North America
(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 ...