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The life and work of Gretel Karplus/Adorno: Her contributions to Frankfurt School theory.
(2004)
This dissertation uses the insights of contemporary rhetorical theory and feminist biography to acknowledge the contributions of Gretel Karplus/Adorno to the productivity of her husband, Theodor W. Adorno, of her dear ...
Red Scare rhetoric and composition: Early Cold War effects on university writing instruction, 1934--1954.
(2004)
This dissertation investigates composition and communication philosophies and practices from the years 1934--1954. Generally speaking, writing instruction suffered during the Cold War because the political climate reduced ...
Disability and College Composition: Investigating Access, Identity, and Rhetorics of Ableism
(2014-05-09)
This dissertation analyzes the accessibility and accommodation experiences of students with disabilities in college writing classrooms at a Midwestern public research university. The study argues that writing teachers need ...
Prefacing the poetess: Gender and textual presentation in seventeenth-century England.
(2000)
A.B.'s Covent Garden Drollery (1672) is important to the history of the anthologized preface. The prologues and epilogues in the drollery participate in the discourse of the professional woman in theatre, representing women ...
Dangerous eloquence: Hate speech tactics in the discourse of Asa/Forrest Carter from 1954--1974.
(2004)
This study takes as its subject the political life and writings of Asa Earl Carter and the literary writings he produced under the name Forrest Carter during the period of 1954 through 1974. As part of this study, I offer ...
From orality to literacy: The intellectual traditions of black South African women.
(2003)
Black women in South Africa have a long history of intellectualism as evidenced by their expertise as oral performers, rehearsing and revitalizing vibrant storytelling traditions that have been inherited by matrilineal ...
Teaching in the 21st century: Merging critical theory and practice for the writing and rhetoric class.
(2006)
This dissertation seeks to assist teachers of first-year composition as they move into the 21st century. Focusing on the two-year institution, but also asking for the assistance of University Writing Program Administrators ...
Is there anybody out there? Toward an audience-oriented writing pedagogy.
(2001)
In chapter one I explore the history of audience as a theoretical construct within rhetorical and composition studies. I argue that James Porter's work in particular has caused audience to be conceived of in a managerial ...
The police in different voices: Isaac Newton and his programme of purification.
(2005)
This work positions Isaac Newton's three areas of inquiry---Natural Philosophy, alchemy, and theology---as three inter-locked "literacies, " each with its own corrupt text and purifying method of reading. Newton's natural ...
A theory of conflict and cooperation within interlocutor relationships in the discourse of synchronous computer conferencing.
(1998)
This project investigates the dynamics of conflict and cooperation in the construction of interlocutor relationships in synchronous computer conferencing (SCC). Chapters One and Two of the dissertation present my qualitative ...