President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address: A Critique And Overview,
2011
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address: A Critique And Overview, Korina Kay Weatherson
Communication Studies
No abstract provided.
National Writing Project: Internet Resource,
2011
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
National Writing Project: Internet Resource, Priscilla Finley
Library Faculty Research
The National Writing Project (NWP) is a federally funded program that focuses on the teaching of writing, and coordinates and supports professional development for writing teachers (K-16) at over 200 college and university partner sites.
Rolling Stone And Stanley Mcchrystal: A Case Of Muck-Raking,
2011
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Rolling Stone And Stanley Mcchrystal: A Case Of Muck-Raking, Westley (West) Fletcher
Communication Studies
No abstract provided.
Professional Writing In The English Classroom: Beyond Language: The Grammar Of Document Design,
2011
Western Michigan University
Professional Writing In The English Classroom: Beyond Language: The Grammar Of Document Design, Jonathan Bush, Leah A. Zuidema
Faculty Work Comprehensive List
The article offers guidelines in teaching professional writing in an English classroom. It highlights the elements in deciding for a good document design which include layout, fonts and color. It outlines the CRAP acronym (Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity) formulated by Saul Greenberg which summarizes the essential techniques in grammar design.
A Square Gone Famous,
2011
American University in Cairo
A Square Gone Famous, Laila Afifi
Papers, Posters, and Presentations
(No abstract provided)
Democracy In The Arab World,
2011
American University in Cairo
Democracy In The Arab World, Omar Mohamed Abdelkhalek Omar
Papers, Posters, and Presentations
(No abstract provided)
To What Extent Is The History Of Egypt Repeating Itself?,
2011
American University in Cairo
To What Extent Is The History Of Egypt Repeating Itself?, Nouran Ghannam
Papers, Posters, and Presentations
This paper explores the question of whether the history of Egypt has been repeating itself. Throughout the past 20th century Egypt has been in a continuous cycle of revolutions and authoritarian regimes. Hence, we can never be sure whether the recent 2011 Revolution will lead to something different than the regimes we have seen in the past. Nonetheless, this recent uprising could be the first break from the cycle. First we establish what a revolution and authoritarian regime are, to make sure that this has been true of Egyptian history. We then regimes to see whether there are similarities; thus …
Transfer Within Fyc Tracing The Operalization Of Writing-Related Knowledge And Concepts In Composition,
2011
University of Central Florida
Transfer Within Fyc Tracing The Operalization Of Writing-Related Knowledge And Concepts In Composition, Laura Martinez
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This study traces the transfer of writing-related knowledge and concepts from the composition classroom into the writing assignments composed by students within the same course. Working in a first-year-composition classroom taught through a writing-about-writing curriculum, the researcher observed students as they navigated from the initial learning of concepts such as rhetorical situations, writing processes, and discourse communities, into an application of these concepts in various writing assignments, including rhetorical analyses and discourse community profiles. By analyzing a composition instructor's objectives for her assignments and observing the interaction between students and their instructor in a single composition course for the duration …
Gore's Science The Kairos Of An Inconvenient Truth And The Implications For Science Writing,
2011
University of Central Florida
Gore's Science The Kairos Of An Inconvenient Truth And The Implications For Science Writing, Carolyn M. Glasshoff
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Modern Americans are exposed to scientific and technical information on a daily basis that urges them to react as well as learn about new ideas. The popular science writing that circulates this information must be portrayed in a way that makes it easy for lay people to understand complicated ideas while at the same time remaining complex enough to convince readers that the information is reliable, accurate, and worth learning. In making decisions about how to accomplish this balancing act, science writers make decisions that influence the audience's opinion about new scientific ideas, how easily the audience will accept or …
Using Narrative To Improve Reflection In Technical Communication,
2011
University of Central Florida
Using Narrative To Improve Reflection In Technical Communication, Carrie Brkich
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis explores why instructors should use narrative intentionally and effectively with reflection to better understand adult students' perceptions of experiential learning activities in technical communication. The frequent use of narrative in technical discourse reminds us that the tone of technical texts is often appropriately informal, personable, and reflective. A closer analysis of narratives provides instructors with valuable opportunities to learn more about the motivations for and barriers to learning for adult students and to better understand how these students situate themselves in larger social and cultural narratives. Narrative serves many purposes in technical communication. Not only does narrative add …
A Burkean Analysis Of Jehovah's Witness Apocalyptic Rhetoric,
2011
California State University, San Bernardino
A Burkean Analysis Of Jehovah's Witness Apocalyptic Rhetoric, Katherine Elizabeth Kacarab
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis uses principles from Burke's Rhetoric of Identification to examine how apocalyptic prophecies foster and maintain an apocalyptic group identity. Jehovah's Witnesses were used as a sample apocalyptic group because they comprise a group with a heavy textual and symbolic focus on the apocalypse.
The Cultural Self: The Novel As Griot In African American Fiction,
2011
California State University, San Bernardino
The Cultural Self: The Novel As Griot In African American Fiction, Eric Christian Atkinson
Theses Digitization Project
This paper addresses the Western African oral concept of griot, as it utilizes nommo, the Bantu term which denotes the magical power of words to cause change, as a critical African American lexical lens. It will foreground the fiction of Octavia E. Butler and John Edgar Wideman through the critical lens of griot as a means to construct African American community and culture through narrative by utilizing nommo. Nommo is an "African concept in which the word is a life force; the word is creator rather than created" even after it has been spoken or written. Traditionally the griot is …
International Graffiti And The Israeli Separation Barrier,
2011
California State University, San Bernardino
International Graffiti And The Israeli Separation Barrier, Veronica Evangelina Miranda
Theses Digitization Project
This purpose of this study is to show that graffiti can be more than mere vandalism and can be a powerful way of communicating resistance to injustice when used as protest. Graffiti on the Israeli Separation Barrier is one way people can speak against an oppressive force that alters their physical environment, which can be a site of continuous argument.
Cyborg Rhetoric And Revelation Of Self: Identity, Writing, And The Instantiation Of The Cyborg In Digital Texts,
2011
California State University, San Bernardino
Cyborg Rhetoric And Revelation Of Self: Identity, Writing, And The Instantiation Of The Cyborg In Digital Texts, Thomas Keywon Cho
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis examines three "digital texts" and explores the ways writing, technology, and narratives embedded in popular culture reveal cyborg language.
A Burkean Analysis Of Anti-Immigration Websites: Recurring Scapegoating Rhetorical Moves,
2011
California State University, San Bernardino
A Burkean Analysis Of Anti-Immigration Websites: Recurring Scapegoating Rhetorical Moves, Aldo Quiroz Lewis
Theses Digitization Project
There are numerous websites emphasizing the idea that immigrants, especially undocumented immigrants from Latin American countries, are to blame for the decline of the United States. What allows these sites to be so persuasive is that they created a united U.S. front by erasing the differences between different groups, thereby construcing a united "American" identity. At the same time, in opposition to this identity, the sites created an 'illegal' that groups Hispanics. This author argues that attempts to discuss immigration have more to do with enacting a scapegoat that may be blamed for America's ills.
Politics, Power, Agency And The End Comment Genre,
2011
California State University, San Bernardino
Politics, Power, Agency And The End Comment Genre, Cynthia Ann Ruthford
Theses Digitization Project
The author examines a corpus of teacher end commentary written to first-year writing students' essays. It is looked at as a genre-the end comment genre-in order to perform a rhetorical genre analyis.
Access Denied: The Rhetorical Construction Of Undocumented Students In Postsecondary Education,
2011
California State University, San Bernardino
Access Denied: The Rhetorical Construction Of Undocumented Students In Postsecondary Education, Yanira Estrada Figueroa
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis analyzes rhetorically the 1982 Supreme Court case Plyer v. Doe, sections of the Welfare Reform Act and the Illegal Immigratiom Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, and the 2011 version of the proposed Development, Relief and Education for Minors (Dream Act) in order to trace the underlying beliefs and assumptions that justify refusing undocumented students support for and thus access to postsecondary institutions.
Liberation Is Not Always So Liberating: Rethinking Paulo Freire's Critical Pedagogy For The Writing Classroom,
2011
California State University, San Bernardino
Liberation Is Not Always So Liberating: Rethinking Paulo Freire's Critical Pedagogy For The Writing Classroom, Joshua Daniel Shinn
Theses Digitization Project
The goal of this project is to reconsider the ways in which liberatory and/or critical pedagogy, and its desire to combat the "banking" method of education, can unintentionally create some of the same institutional and ideologically oppressive classroom conditions that more traditional methods of instruction have been charged with creating. This thesis first discusses the origins of liberatory pedagogy and its effect upon education, the writing classroom, and critical pedagogues.
Transmission Overhaul: Negotiating The Shift In Information And Knowledge Construction Among Generation M,
2011
California State University, San Bernardino
Transmission Overhaul: Negotiating The Shift In Information And Knowledge Construction Among Generation M, Thomas Timothy Hite
Theses Digitization Project
This research draws upon recent research in the area of digital semiotics and offers a framework of remediation in the attempt to encourage the acceptance of digital composition as a valid space of rhetorical production.
Attending To Local And Diverse Communities: Toward A Theological Learning Community For A Missional Era,
2011
Luther Seminary
Attending To Local And Diverse Communities: Toward A Theological Learning Community For A Missional Era, Patricia Taylor Ellison, Patrick R. Keifert
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
