Browsing OSU Theses by Author "Damron, Rebecca"
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Becoming a Faithful Academic: a Place for Latter-day Saint Pedagogy in Composition and Rhetoric
Hopkins, Steven Wayne (Oklahoma State University, 2012-05-01)This thesis begins as a creative non-fiction essay about the author's experiences in graduate-level English as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the struggles he faced to reconcile the theories ... -
Extending with bridges and Mapping maps: A Discourse Based Study of Metaphor in The Writing Center and Writing Classroom
Heasley, Phillip Kyle (Oklahoma State University, 2008-07-01)This thesis studies the use of metaphor in the writing center and writing classroom. Subjects included 2 instructors, 4 writing tutors and 18 freshmen students. Subjects were recorded during classroom and tutorial discourse ... -
From Theory to Praxis: Style, Dualism, and the Composition Classroom
Montin, Rachael A. (Oklahoma State University, 2011-07-01)Style, as a workable pedagogy, remains elusive to scholars, not for its lack of a definition, but because it seems to evoke a myriad of individual definitions. Further investigation into style literature reveals a gap ... -
Marks of Professionalism: Academic Women's Clothing Choices and Perceptions of Identity
Chapman, Rachel (2015-05-01)Guidelines surrounding �professional� dress in academic spaces can be implied or obvious, but instead of following a particular formula, these guidelines are viewed as a representation of professional accomplishment, ... -
Medicine and Morality: the Use of Rhetoric in Victorian Marriage and Child Rearing Manuals
Freeman, Staci Diane (Oklahoma State University, 2012-07-01)During the Victorian era, many changes occurred due to industrialization and political upheaval. At a time when the young were moving away from parental supervision to large cities for employment opportunities, the Victorians ... -
Real Men Don't Pretend and Other Stories
Roberts, Jarod Cannon (2015-12-01)The collection centers on the conflict of idealism versus coming into contact with reality. In the three stories written in third person, characters from different cultures and socio-economic statuses must to grips with ... -
Relationship Between Speaking and Writing in College-Level ESL Students
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Resistance Within the Classroom Space: Teaching Contested Texts as Social Action
Canfield, Jeaneen Sussanne (Oklahoma State University, 2014-12-01)Drawing from classical rhetoric and from scholars such as Paulo Freire, James Berlin, Henry Giroux, Ira Shor, bell hooks, Kristi Fleckenstein, and others, I seek to interrogate pedagogical implications of incorporating ... -
Sylvia Plaths the Bell Jar as Disability Narrative
Maple, Jeni (Oklahoma State University, 2009-12-01)The purpose of this study was to explore the implications of disability theory for Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, a novel which has traditionally been read from a feminist perspective. Drawing on the work of many scholars ... -
Theorizing Literacy in the Service Industry: a Starbucks Case Study
Libby, Taylor (Oklahoma State University, 2014-05-01)This study relocates literacy, uprooting it from the classroom and placing it in the service industry, specifically Starbucks, in an attempt to examine the intersection of literacy and food service work. The first chapter ...