Kenneth Burke Meets The Apostle Paul On The Road To Damascus: Mysticism Through Rhetorical Identification,
2015
University of Arkansas Little Rock
Kenneth Burke Meets The Apostle Paul On The Road To Damascus: Mysticism Through Rhetorical Identification, William S. Elkins
Theses and Dissertations
The term “in Christ” is widely recognized within the Christian Church as a signature term of the Apostle Paul. But while the term is recognized as fundamental to his theology, occurring 180 times specifically and 300 times generally, functional usage is minimal. However, when the origin of the term is seen in its original context of the Damascus Road Event Encounter, the unique mystical nature of the term begins to come into focus. At that event the Messiah introduces Paul to a concept that much later (twentieth century) Kenneth Burke labels “identification,” who explains at length identification’s operational dynamics. My …
Serial Obsession: Analyzing Media Fixation On Jack The Ripper,
2015
University of Arkansas Little Rock
Serial Obsession: Analyzing Media Fixation On Jack The Ripper, Rachell Nicole Hayes
Theses and Dissertations
There is psychological, historical, and scientific research into the social implications of media and the responsibility of audience. This thesis observed a rhetorical connection between media and the celebrity of high-profile serial killers. The research findings of this analysis began with the 1800s studying literature written in Victorian London with an appreciation for murder eventually leading into the high-profile coverage of the Whitechapel Murders of 1888 committed by history’s still most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper. This analysis discovered a pattern of language usage in media depictions of serial killers found in the coverage of this case and multiple …
#Networkedglobe: Making The Connection Between Social Media And Intercultural Technical Communication,
2015
University of South Florida
#Networkedglobe: Making The Connection Between Social Media And Intercultural Technical Communication, Laura Anne Ewing
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Preparing students of technical communication in the twenty-first century means training them to rhetorically utilize a wide variety of online tools. Technical communicators are now required to employ social media applications on a daily basis to communicate with clients, consumers, colleagues, and other organizations. These online modes have also opened the door to global communication wider and continue to present opportunities and challenges to technical communicators worldwide. Using Japan as a model, this dissertation sought to demonstrate a rhetorical exigency for teaching intercultural social media communication strategies to future technical communicators in the United States. The goal of this dissertation …
Wcrp Survey 2005-6 Raw Data,
2015
Purdue University
Wcrp Survey 2005-6 Raw Data, Harry Denny
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Datasets and Research Projects
No abstract provided.
Wcrp Survey 2007-8 Raw Data,
2015
Purdue University
Wcrp Survey 2007-8 Raw Data, Harry Denny
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Datasets and Research Projects
No abstract provided.
Wcrp Survey All Years Raw Data,
2015
Purdue University
Wcrp Survey All Years Raw Data, Harry Denny
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Datasets and Research Projects
No abstract provided.
Wcrp Survey 2001-2 Raw Data,
2015
Purdue University
Wcrp Survey 2001-2 Raw Data, Harry Denny
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Datasets and Research Projects
No abstract provided.
Wcrp Survey 2003-4 Raw Data,
2015
Purdue University
Wcrp Survey 2003-4 Raw Data, Harry Denny
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Datasets and Research Projects
No abstract provided.
A More Perfect European Union?: The Transnational Networks Of The European Union’S Embassy Open House In Washington, D.C.,
2015
University of Richmond
A More Perfect European Union?: The Transnational Networks Of The European Union’S Embassy Open House In Washington, D.C., Timothy Barney
Rhetoric and Communication Studies Faculty Publications
Annually, the Delegation of the European Union (EU) in Washington, D.C., holds an embassy open house day for its 27 member nations to celebrate European culture and educate tourists on the functions of EU politics and international relations. Amidst an ongoing debt crisis and a continuing exploration of its identity as a supranational entity, “Embassy Day” affords an opportunity to see the EU as a spatial network uneasily caught in the tensions between the often nostalgic nationalism of its constituent countries and the future-oriented technocratic transnationalism of its composite alliance. By analyzing the cultural artifacts of Embassy Day from its …
The Half-Life & After-Life Of New Media,
2015
Studio Austin Alchemy
The Half-Life & After-Life Of New Media, Nancy Austin
Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies
It is fitting to think of the half-life of new media using the time-based metaphor of radioactive decay. As a metaphor, an object’s half-life can be a useful way to talk about the potent technological modernity of new media and, like Walter Benjamin’s well-known notion of the aura, call attention to an object’s performativity. However, Benjamin’s aura remains a constant reminder of irrevocable originality whereas remarking on half-life references a quality that changes over time. But what happens after the rhetorical impact of being new has run its course? What is the life expectancy of once-new media and what of …
“That Sucks?”: An Evaluation Of The Communication Competence And Enacted Social Support Of Response Messages To Depression Disclosures In College-Aged Students,
2015
James Madison University
“That Sucks?”: An Evaluation Of The Communication Competence And Enacted Social Support Of Response Messages To Depression Disclosures In College-Aged Students, Daniel Vieth
James Madison Undergraduate Research Journal (JMURJ)
Recent communication research on depression has focused on which response messages are most effective in providing emotional comfort to depressed individuals during depression dialogues. This study investigates the impact that a confidant’s initial response to a disclosure has on the disclosing individual, a key moment of dialogue for those with depression. It examines the relationship between the communication competence of responses to depression disclosures and how individuals rate those responses’ enacted social support, hypothesizing that the higher the communication competence of a confidant’s response (where competence reflects the effectiveness of interdependent communication), the more enacted social support the discloser will …
Para-Expertise, Tacit Knowledge, And Writing Problems,
2015
University of Kentucky
Para-Expertise, Tacit Knowledge, And Writing Problems, Jenny Rice
Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies Faculty Publications
My office is on the thirteenth floor of an eighteen-story concrete tower that sits in the heart of campus. The building is so massively disproportionate to other buildings that it looms over the entire campus. Inside, the hallways are long and narrow, with no windows or natural light. A bank of six large elevators takes up the center space of each floor. Perhaps it is not surprising that this office tower has become the source of campus lore and legends among students and faculty. During my first semester on campus, a student asked if I knew the history of my …
"Carried Away": Love, Bly, And Secrecy In Henry James' The Turn Of The Screw 2015,
2015
SUNY College Cortland
"Carried Away": Love, Bly, And Secrecy In Henry James' The Turn Of The Screw 2015, Natalie G. El-Eid
Master's Theses
The function of the prologue in Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw is decidedly ambiguous, as the characters in the prologue, much like the uncle of the main text, are seemingly never seen again. For this reason, the purpose of this prologue is much debated.1 As Rolf Lundén states in his article “‘Not in any literal, vulgar way’: The Encoded Love Story of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw,” “The openness of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw has invited more analytical attempts, and more critical controversy, than most literary texts” (30). Lundén summarizes four schools of …
Conventional Wisdom In The Writing Classroom: A Short Defence Of Grammar Instruction,
2015
Technological University Dublin
Conventional Wisdom In The Writing Classroom: A Short Defence Of Grammar Instruction, Sue Norton
Articles
This article considers whether instructors of writing in higher education ought prescriptively to involve students in the mechanics of standard written English or, rather, encourage them to prioritise ideas and content. Recognizing the reluctance of many practitioners to distract learner-writers with rules, and thereby alienate them from their creativity, it nevertheless recommends judicious delivery of lessons in conventional grammar, syntax, and punctuation. Taking standard written English as a variant that continues to hold sway in general, academic, and professional readerships, the article concludes with a selection of language components relevant to undergraduate writing and commonly addressed by readily available resource …
On Rage, Shame, "Realness," And Accountability To Survivors,
2015
Michigan State University
On Rage, Shame, "Realness," And Accountability To Survivors, Kathleen Ann Livingston
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
This essay examines the rhetorical moves made on all sides of the recent conversation on trigger warnings. Calling for accountability to survivors, it positions trigger warnings as one practice of consent. Though in practice trigger warnings bring up issues of censorship, they can be understood as a way for survivors to take their power back by telling a bit of their trauma narrative and requesting accommodations and accountability. Unpacking the histories and the language of trigger warnings reveals how our culture thinks of survivors and how far anti-violence movements have to go.
Emoji, Emoji, What For Art Thou?,
2015
Wheaton College (Massachusetts)
Emoji, Emoji, What For Art Thou?, Lisa Lebduska
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
This essay provides a history and context for emoji as a way of re-materializing composing while simultaneously arguing that emoji do not threaten alphabetic literacy and instead provide a means of creative graphic expression. The essay acknowledges that n some instances emoji do help to clarify the intent or tone of alphabetic writing, but it notes that emoji, like alphabetic writing, is culturally and contextually bound. Emoji expand expression and doing so open themselves to re-appropriation, intepretation and even misinterpretation, along with the affirming possibilities of artistic creation.
Undo It Yourself: Challenging Normalizing Discourses Of Pinterest? Nailed It!,
2015
Miami University, Oxford Ohio
Undo It Yourself: Challenging Normalizing Discourses Of Pinterest? Nailed It!, Morgan C Leckie
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
This project explores the resistant rhetorics of online environments through site discourse analysis and person-based research of participants on popular social media scrapbooking and crafting website, Pinterest.
Encomium On The Overlord,
2015
Virginia Tech
Encomium On The Overlord, Kt Torrey
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
As a new fan of the CW's paranormal series, Supernatural, I paid little attention to actor Misha Collins outside the omnipresent trenchcoat of his character, Castiel until a kairotic question from a fellow conference panelist pointed me in the direction of Collins' Twitter feed. I was struck by Collins' 140-character shots of performative trolling, Tweets that sang to me in shades, gleeful rhetorical waves, of the sophists, particularly because of the actor's interest in, and unique definition of, social change. Building on that sophistic seed, I argue here that Collins' construction of a megalomaniacal Twitter persona known as the Overlord …
Doing It Our (Dang) Selves: Making, Experimenting, And Becoming Through Craft,
2015
Portland State University
Doing It Our (Dang) Selves: Making, Experimenting, And Becoming Through Craft, Amber Buck, Megan Condis, Kristin Prins, Marilee Brooks-Gillies, Martha Webber
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
No abstract provided.
Beer, Blogs, And Bitches,
2015
McDaniel College
Beer, Blogs, And Bitches, Lauren Murray
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
Beer has been branded as a product that is available to men; we see this in popular advertisements online and on television. The heteronormatively-masculine image that is created presents a complicated rhetorical situation for women interested in beer. When searching the online community for female beer bloggers, I came across blogs that seemed to be addressing women who are alienated in the beer community with hyper-feminine rhetoric. This stark contrast to the rhetoric that we typically see in beer advertisements did not appeal to me either. I've been referred to as "the girlfriend with great taste in beer" and intercepted …
