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From ambivalence to acquiescence :
(1981)
A novelist's success depends a great deal on the reader's memory. Although a work of fiction must tell its own story, the use of structural patterns and devices found in previous and contemporary works can be used by a ...
A Reflection on One Writing Across the Curriculum Model
(2010)
This dissertation first looks at historical iterations of the primary form of first and second WAC implementation, the workshop model. It is necessary to first situate WAC models in their respective institutions and then ...
Severall Coloured Ribbons :
(2000)
The dissertation establishes a connection between Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle's system of natural philosophy and her theory of creativity, her conception of the free use of the imagination. In her natural ...
Podcast Rhetorics: Insights into Podcasts as Public Persuasion
(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 ...
'Daughter of Zion': Elizabeth I and the relationship of virginity to monarchical power.
(2000)
The argument of the dissertation involves the meanings of virginity and the representations of Elizabeth I during her reign and in the century after her death. Elizabeth has long been associated with the term "Virgin Queen, ...
Virgulae and Distinctiones: A History of Western Notational Systems from Grammar Handbook to Liturgical Leaf
(2022-05-13)
I present the history of the virgule or slash (/) as a measure of how students read and interpreted texts first by methods taught in grammar handbooks but then according to scribal-driven innovations to the page. The mark ...
Coin Flip: Reestablishing a Reciprocal Relationship Between Rhetoric and Athletics in American Higher Education
(2013)
In the following pages, I consider the troublesome relationship between rhetoric and athletics in American higher education and how this relationship plays out in the first-year composition classroom. Specifically focused ...
Writing in the Age of Speed
(2009)
This dissertation argues that speed characterizes the world of technology in the twenty-first century. The ideologies inherent in technologies have always been of enormous interest to historians, philosophers, and political ...
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 ...