Browsing OU - Dissertations by Author "Tarabochia, Sandra"
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COMPOSING AGENCY: USING INQUIRY TO PROMOTE SOCIAL ACTION
Gurley, Leanna (2017-08-01)In Rhetoric/Composition studies, agency has been a highly contested concept, straightaway invoking the tension between two dominant perspectives. Agency is viewed as either an internal quality possessed by an individual ... -
Counter-Storytelling Using Xicana Epistemologies and Rhetorics: Countering White Benevolence and White Ignorance in College Literacy Intervention Spaces
Treviño, Anna (2021-05-14)Most of us who ask ourselves “What do students need in order to succeed in college?” genuinely want to help students succeed. However, because helping others is known to be a good thing, we often don’t look critically at ... -
Deep in the heart of Texas: nostalgia's ethos in public discourse
Prince, Kalyn (2022-05)This project argues that nostalgia operates rhetorically as an argument of ethos and that its function within public arguments provides the field of rhetoric an opportunity to reimagine how ethos is produced within political ... -
Feminist Food Rhetoric: Women's Rhetorical Strategies Across Instagram, Food Podcasts, and Community Cookbooks
Beardsley, Ashley (2022)Demonstrating that food and cooking instructions are important everyday artifacts worthy of rhetorical criticism, Feminist Food Rhetoric advances rhetoric and writing studies scholarship on food by moving beyond the dominant ... -
Materialist Circuitry: Digital Writing Technology, Planned Obsolescence, and Ecological Impact
Madden, Shannon (2015)This dissertation claims that planned obsolescence of digital writing equipment is a problem for composition—one that we should take up and challenge. Obsolescence causes practical difficulties for digital writing teachers ... -
Pivotal Moment: Personal Histories of First-Year Composition
Gerdes-McClain, Rebecca (2017-05-12)This project links historical close readings of pivotal figures in the creation of first-year composition (FYC) labor practices to contemporary debates about how to best advocate for and reform contemporary labor conditions, ... -
Podcast Rhetorics: Insights into Podcasts as Public Persuasion
Jacobson, Matthew (2021-08)Asserting that professional podcasts serve as an important platform for arguments regarding issues of public importance, Podcast Rhetorics advances rhetoric and writing studies scholarship by moving beyond the dominant ... -
The Risks of Rhetoricity: Accounting for Intellectual Disability in the Rhetorical Tradition
Barritt, Anna (2023-08-04)I am troubled by the notion that what specialists in my field call “rhetoricity”—the quality of being able to assess an audience and effectively influence their thinking—is what separates humans (“rhetors”) from non-humans. ... -
Teachers' Lived Experiences Within and Beyond the 2016 Oklahoma Writing Project Summer Institute
Jeter, Gage (2017-05)Many classroom teachers often consider professional development to be ineffective and irrelevant, noting little to no benefits for themselves or their students. Research on traditional, top-down professional development ...