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Post-Industrial Gatekeeping: A Rhetorical History of Disciplinary Composition
(2015-05)
This dissertation argues that composition’s ascendance to academic legitimacy in the mid-to-late twentieth century did not emerge as a challenge to FYC’s traditional gatekeeping function but rather represents the replacement ...
COMPOSING AGENCY: USING INQUIRY TO PROMOTE SOCIAL ACTION
(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 ...
The Spiritual Rhetoric of Early Methodist Women Susanna Wesley, Sarah Crosby, Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, and Hester Rogers
(2013)
This dissertation examines the rhetorical features of letters and journals composed by Susanna Wesley, Sarah Crosby, Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, and Hester Rogers, all prominent and influential women in the early years of the ...