Student Disposition Towards Discussing Race In The Classroom,
2020
Chapman University
Student Disposition Towards Discussing Race In The Classroom, Natalie Salagean
English (MA) Theses
Discussions of race in the classroom have always been fraught. How do we broach such sensitive topics? How do we create an environment in which students feel both safe and comfortable discussing race on both a personal level and at a systemic scale? How does a student’s race factor into the conversation? And how does the instructor’s race factor in as well, or in conjunction with a student’s racial identity? As a Latina educator of color, I designed a research study which examined the impact my own race and ethnicity held in the classroom, and additionally how intersecting factors such …
Adolescent Spiritual Formation: Practical Theology As A Filter For Youth Ministry,
2020
Abilene Christian University
Adolescent Spiritual Formation: Practical Theology As A Filter For Youth Ministry, Jeremy Smith
Doctor of Ministry Theses and Dissertations
There seems to be a disconnect between the practice and scholars of youth ministry. Historically, the practice of youth ministry has been overly concerned with method, creating multiple approaches, each with its own inherent shortcomings. Responding to this overemphasis on method, scholars of youth ministry have argued for a more theological framework, assuming that the problem lies within a lack of theological education among youth ministry practitioners. In 2001 youth ministry scholarship made a case to place the field of youth ministry under the discipline of practical theology in hopes of grounding the practice of youth ministry in theology. Over …
Fostering Community In An Online Basic Writing Course: Best Practices For Teaching Online Basic Writing At A Four-Year Institution,
2020
Nova Southeastern University
Fostering Community In An Online Basic Writing Course: Best Practices For Teaching Online Basic Writing At A Four-Year Institution, Nikki Chasteen
All HCAS Student Capstones, Theses, and Dissertations
Fostering community in online basic writing (OBW) classes can be difficult with a student population who often lacks confidence in their writing. By implementing collaborative activities in OBW courses, instructors can facilitate students making connections with each other resulting in increased confidence in their writing. This thesis provides four best practices—make meaningful connections early on in the course, listen to students, provide meaningful feedback, and provide opportunities for collaboration— for instructors teaching OBW, which help students feel connected to and supported by their writing community. The four best practices were informed by research on basic writing, online writing instruction, Community …
Critical Veganism: A Posthuman Understanding Of ‘Becoming With’ Others,
2020
Missouri State University
Critical Veganism: A Posthuman Understanding Of ‘Becoming With’ Others, Kensey Dressler
Graduate Theses/Dissertations
This thesis lays the groundwork for a critical vegan orientation to posthuman communication research. Critical veganism attempts to do the least amount of harm to nonhuman beings, a shift that decenters the human in scholarship and focuses on the material realities of nonhuman beings. This orientation helps create a praxis for posthuman research that is in line with a new materialist approach to ontology, is anti-capitalist, and strives to do the least harm. Previous research methods tend to be anthropocentric in nature, thus leaving out nonhuman experiences from communication research. Using both autoethnography and multi-species ethnography as my methods, I …
The Borders Between Us: Analyzing The United States’ Border Policies & Repercussions,
2020
University of San Francisco
The Borders Between Us: Analyzing The United States’ Border Policies & Repercussions, Louise De Oliveira
Creative Activity and Research Day - CARD
This poster addresses the United States’ current southern border situation. It begins by analyzing the historical precedent for discrimination against immigrants to provide a background of understanding for the current situation. It then explains how this aided in President Trump’s election and his resolution to curb illegal immigration by reinforcing the southern border. It also analyzes the Trump Administration's zero-tolerance policy that led to family separation and the personal and political effects of the policy. Furthermore, the poster analyzes the executive order that attempted to end family separations. Finally, the poster examines the current state of border conditions and immigration …
Metaphors And Emotions In Advertising: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Audi’S Online Video Commercials,
2020
East Tennessee State University
Metaphors And Emotions In Advertising: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Audi’S Online Video Commercials, Richard Opoku Amoako
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Advertising often employs metaphor because of its rhetorical utility. By drawing on analogous imagery and language, metaphor has the potential to elicit emotional responses. As the digital age is increasingly saturated with commercial messaging, advertising experts leverage the persuasive power of metaphor and emotion to produce creative, compelling, and memorable commercials. German automobile company Audi employs metaphorical language and imagery in their video advertisements to arouse consumer emotions. In this study, I conduct rhetorical analyses of Audi’s online video commercials in order to: identify instances in their ads that employ metaphorical language and imagery; investigate how those metaphors function rhetorically; …
Emotional Appeals In Nonprofit Advertising: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Print Ads By The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation And The American Cancer Society,
2020
East Tennessee State University
Emotional Appeals In Nonprofit Advertising: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Print Ads By The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation And The American Cancer Society, Dominique N. A. Harrison
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Emotional appeals are frequently employed in strategic messaging by nonprofit organizations. In this study, I identify instances of emotional appeals in select print adverts of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and the American Cancer Society, and use rhetorical analysis to explore how each organization’s tactics are strategic in their appeal to target audiences’ emotions. In doing so, I identify several reoccurring emotional themes—including hope, love, and unity—that engage their target audiences and persuade them to respond to diverse calls-to-action. In order to make these appeals to audience emotion, the adverts employ rhetorical devices such as personification, metaphor, repetition, …
A Poetic Ethnodrama: Discussing The Impact Of The Pressure To Publish On Creative Writers' Production,
2020
East Tennessee State University
A Poetic Ethnodrama: Discussing The Impact Of The Pressure To Publish On Creative Writers' Production, Abby N. Lewis
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This study examines the presence of the pressure to publish while in college as an undergraduate or graduate student, and the impact that pressure has on students’ ability to produce creative work. After interviewing participants, the researcher created an ethnodrama to best represent participants’ emotions and unique experiences with publishing while in school. An examination of the literature reveals that master’s-level students are often overlooked in scholarly research on the subject of publishing. This study uses a qualitative research method to identify key emotional experiences from students at the master’s and undergraduate level in the hopes of providing a platform …
Curating Digital Pedagogy In The Humanities,
2020
San Jose State University
Curating Digital Pedagogy In The Humanities, Katherine Harris, Matthew Gold, Rebecca Frost Davis
Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity
This is the published introduction to the born-digital, open-access, peer-reviewed *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities*. More a rationale and scholarly study of both Digital Pedagogy and DPiH in general, this introduces articulates the uses, theory, rationale about digital pedagogy as it has been shaped in U.S. institutions since the explosion of Digital Humanities in 2009. As a separate field now, Digital Pedagogy is built on the generosity of its practitioners, but saving the *stuff* of teaching and pedagogy is difficult. The introduction historicizes this now-published project, its open peer review process, and its development in the early years (starting in …
Sustainable Hope: An Analysis Of The Rhetorical Process Of The Forward Through Ferguson Commission Report,
2020
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Sustainable Hope: An Analysis Of The Rhetorical Process Of The Forward Through Ferguson Commission Report, Nicole Ramer
Theses
This project focuses on the Forward through Ferguson Report, a commission report written by appointed commissioners after the protests of the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO. While the first chapter of my thesis focuses on the report itself and commission reports as a genre, the second chapter analyzes the most recent report, the State of Police Reform, from an ecological lens. Throughout the project, I kept returning to the question Susan Wells posed in a recent interview with Composition Forum, revisiting one she first asked in her oft-cited 1996 essay: what do we want from public rhetoric …
Basketballs Bounce Back But I Didn't,
2020
Kutztown University
Basketballs Bounce Back But I Didn't, Kelli Shivers
KUCC -- Kutztown University Composition Conference
No abstract provided.
Why I Write In Yiddish,
2020
Tel Aviv University
Why I Write In Yiddish, Karen Alkalay-Gut
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
No abstract provided.
“The Poem Is What Lies Between A Between”: Mahmoud Darwish And The Prosody Of Displacement,
2020
University of California, Berkeley
“The Poem Is What Lies Between A Between”: Mahmoud Darwish And The Prosody Of Displacement, Ayelet Even-Nur
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish grew up in Israel as an internal refugee living under Israeli military rule, legally classified as a “present-absentee alien.” This article focuses on his 1995 volume of poetry, Limādhā tarakta al-ḥiṣān waḥīdan? (Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?), to study the manner in which Darwish’s cultivation of the musical and aural aspects of poetry serves as a means of poetically attending to the effects of dispossession and displacement. Through a discussion of the poems in the collection’s fourth section, Ghurfa l’il kalām maʿ al-nafs (A Room to Talk to Oneself …
Poetry In Response To The “Disengagement Plan”: Identity, Poetics And Politics,
2020
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Poetry In Response To The “Disengagement Plan”: Identity, Poetics And Politics, Tamar Wolf-Monzon
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
This article will examine the corpus of poems written in the years 2004-2005, in response to the Israeli government’s Disengagement plan that unilaterally evacuated all Israeli communities from Gush Katif in the southern Gaza Strip. These poems are explored as a political speech act, whose purpose is to bring about an extra-linguistic outcome: to impact upon the feelings and thoughts of the addressees, as well as to influence them in relation to issues of identity and social affiliation. Indeed, these poems are part of a long and complex tradition of Hebrew political poetry, characterized not only by a response to …
Estrangement Of War In Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five,
2020
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Estrangement Of War In Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, Sophia L. Tornay
KUCC -- Kutztown University Composition Conference
An application of Victor Shklovsky's Theory of Prose to Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five.
My Teacher-Writer Identity,
2020
Kutztown University
My Teacher-Writer Identity, Kayla R. Ehlinger
KUCC -- Kutztown University Composition Conference
My project is my teacher-writer identity project, which started in my Teaching Writing Classroom. The goal of this project was to create a piece of media which gave an understanding of our identity as teachers and writers. My project took the form of a handout that would be used as a teaching material to help my students get to know me while also becoming comfortable with their own writing process. Using my own examples for how to interact with writing, my teacher-writer identity ultimately hopes to help my students become comfortable with themselves and their different approaches to writing.
The Dark Truth About Steve Jobs,
2020
Kutztown University
The Dark Truth About Steve Jobs, Mike Dent
KUCC -- Kutztown University Composition Conference
Presentation of a paper on Steve Jobs and his role in the success of Apple Computer.
Using Online Tools For Learning, Not Copying,
2020
Kutztown University
Using Online Tools For Learning, Not Copying, Noah Cox
KUCC -- Kutztown University Composition Conference
This project is showing that using online websites for homework answers is not always a bad thing. If these websites are used correctly, they can actually be a really good tool for learning.
Adhd: A Personal Struggle,
2020
Kutztown University
Adhd: A Personal Struggle, Julianna Vanvalin
KUCC -- Kutztown University Composition Conference
This paper attempts to show my struggles with ADHD and how not receiving proper care can hinder someone.
Foster Youth In College,
2020
Kutztown University
Foster Youth In College, Brandi Lindenmuth
KUCC -- Kutztown University Composition Conference
Foster youth in higher education struggle with unique challenges that need attention in order for them to succeed. Programs such as the ones talked about in this paper focus on these unique challenges and proceed to support these students for their potential of success.
