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Boundaries Of Knowledge: Expertise And Professionalism In British And Postcolonial Literature, Patrick Steven Herald

Theses and Dissertations--English

The social sciences have developed robust bodies of scholarship on expertise and professionalism, yet literary analyses of the two remain comparatively sparse. I address this gap in Boundaries of Knowledge by examining recent Anglophone fiction and showing that expertise and professionalism are central concerns of contemporary authors, both as subject matter in fiction and in their public identities. I argue that the novelists studied use and abuse expertise and professionalism: they critique professions as participant observers, and also borrow the mantle of expert credibility to bolster their own cultural capital while documenting the pitfalls of expertise in their fiction.

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On John Wilmot (Lord Rochester) "Upon Nothing": A London School Stylistics Account, Gene Washington

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Speech Elicitation Method On Second Language Phonemic Accuracy, Nicole Carrasquel

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The present study, a One-Group Posttest-Only Repeated-Measures Design, examined the effect of speech elicitation method on second language (L2) phonemic accuracy of high functional load initial phonemes found in frequently occurring nouns in American English. This effect was further analyzed by including the variable of first language (L1) to determine if L1 moderated any effects found. The data consisted of audio recordings of 61 adult English learners (ELs) enrolled in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses at a large, public, post-secondary institution in the United States. Phonemic accuracy was judged by two independent raters as either approximating a standard American …

Bad Ideas About Writing, Cheryl E. Ball, Drew Loewe, Wvu Libraries

Open Educational Resources Collection

No abstract provided.

Mourning And Melancholy In Hisham Matar's In The Country Of Men And Anatomy Of A Disappearance, John C. Hawley

English

In a recent study of masculine identity in the fiction of the Arab East since 1967, Samira Aghacy analyzes those novels that "possess an underlying political awareness revealing the centrality of political life in the fiction of the Arab East and the precedence of collective over private issues" (Aghacy, 7). Hisham Matar, though, has chosen to work against the grain and to shrink the political down to the personal; politics remain almost unseen, ghost-like, something his protagonists cannot comprehend or fully see. 1 Muhammad Siddiq famously notes that "any writer can ill afford to remain uninvolved and merely watch history …

Toward A Networked Feminist Pedagogy For Composition, Leah Vitello

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis seeks to offer a pedagogy that uses methods inspired by fourth-wave feminism, or what I name Networked Feminist Pedagogy, to address both the highlights and challenges we have seen in the multimodal and public turns in the field. First, I provide an overview of the ongoing relationship between feminist composition and digital and multimodal rhetorics in order to locate the spaces in which Networked Feminist Pedagogy can intervene. Then, based on work by fourth wave feminist writers and teachers, I outline what I see as central principles of a fourth wave pedagogy, including daily practices, assignment ideas, and …

We [Still] Have A Moment: Multimodal Values And Curricular Practices In A First-Year Writing Program, Kelly L. Wheeler

Theses and Dissertations

Students today get much of their news and information about the world through their handheld devices. Their phones flash or vibrate with a new message or post, and they are sucked into a conversation or moment beyond the physical space they occupy. In this way, their phone feeds blur the lines between places as politics enters the bathroom, a walk in the forest, or their most private spaces. With opportunities for rhetors to act upon audiences in every imagined physical space, our practices within the classroom should reflect these changes in space, delivery, and ubiquity of multimodality in digital platforms. …

Translingual Conversations: Interrogating Default Whiteness In College Writing, Stephanie Eve Boone Mosher

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation explores how language ideologies influence composition, both in disciplinary approaches to language difference and in individual instructors’ attitudes about language correctness and appropriateness. The dissertation presumes that all natively-spoken varieties of human languages are inherently systematic and valid, and that from a linguistic standpoint, contrary to popular belief, no variety is “better” than another; moreover, beliefs about language correctness intersect with structural racism and therefore contribute to inequality. Popular beliefs about the superiority of Standard English (SE) and academic discourse, both based in white, middle-class communicative practices, still influence composition; so this dissertation is particularly interested in how …

Song Of The Scapegoat: How Silence Augments Kenneth Burke’S Notion Of The Scapegoat In Political Rhetoric, Mary Elizabeth Smith

Theses and Dissertations

President Donald Trump ascended to the US’s highest hall of power through rhetoric that scapegoated marginalized groups, such as Muslims, Hispanics, immigrants, foreigners, and others. This work considers the executive order President Donald Trump released January 27, 2017, and its revision released March 06, 2017, for how it exemplifies Kenneth Burke’s notion of the scapegoat, specifically as outlined in A Grammar of Motives and A Rhetoric of Motives. These executive orders have come to be known as the “Muslim Ban” due to the way they implicate Muslims in charges of terrorism, harm, and danger and affect the lives and movement …

Queer Practices, Queer Rhetoric, Queer Technologies: Studies Of Digital Performativity In Gendered Network Culture, Gerald Jackson

Theses and Dissertations

The question of gender and gender representation has been an issue for STEM fields like computer science and software engineering for decades. This dissertation argues that the impact of labor practices in such fields promotes gender disparity by masking gender, and often sexuality, behind myths of mastery and correctness. In this dissertation, I approach technical objects like computer code and protocol specifications from the BitTorrent and Bitcoin software packages, and argue that gendered forms of labor that have existed since the inception of computer programming as a profession are evident in technical documents like code. Furthermore, I argue that this …

The Odcombian Climber: How Thomas Coryate Employed Media For Social Advantage, Julian T. Neuhauser

Theses and Dissertations

Thomas Coryate (1577?-1617), the writer, traveler and social climber, embraced various media in order to achieve social gains. This thesis surveys the content and materiality of writings by and about Coryate to investigate the nature of his sociability. The study begins by drawing on John Hoskyns’ (1566–1638) poem, “Convivium philosophicum,” to explore how Coryate used oral and social performance to create a unique form of sociability through which mockery is transmuted into praise. This thesis then addresses how Coryate’s sociability factored into the conflation of aspects of manuscript and print media in the production of the “Panegyricke Verses” that were …

“Present Mirth Hath Present Laughter; What's To Come Is Still Unsure”: Death And Humor In Early Modern England, Elisha James Sircy

Theses and Dissertations

This study focuses on the workings of humor in 16th-and 17th-century England, particularly in its proximity and deployment around death. Through Early Modern theoretical discussions of humor as well as utterances, historical tracts, poetry, and drama of the time, humor’s role in interrupting or breaking up particular modes of interpretation can be seen. Surveying Castiglione and Puttenham, records of martyred Catholics and Protestants, the poetry of Spenser and Donne, and the dramatic works of Shakespeare, I argue that humor operates as a sort of short-circuiting of a given audience expectation that allows for a potential divergence from previous assertions or …

Shakespeare's "Honest And Vertuous" Ensigns: Transgressing The Military/Domestic Divide In The Henriad And Othello, Matthew R. Wentz

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This thesis explores how the military service of the ensign disrupts and ultimately obliterates domestic life in Shakespeare’s Henriad and Othello. The rank of the ensign held expectations of honesty and honor, yet Shakespeare portrays his only two ensign characters, Ancient Pistol and Iago, as ironically failing to adhere to these standards. The received view of Pistol that results from his portrayal in 2 Henry IV as a stock braggadocio is challenged by a sympathetic reading of his character, especially in Henry V. Although Pistol occasionally behaves with honor in Henry V, his military service results in …

The Effects Of Debate Instruction Through A Flipped Learning Environment On Speaking Ability And Critical Thinking Skills Of Thai High School Students, I Wei Liu

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The study aim (1) to develop debate instruction in a flipped learning environment, (2) to investigate the effects of students' English speaking ability after implementing the debate instruction in a flipped learning environment, (3) to investigate the effects of students' critical thinking skills after implementing debate instruction in a flipped learning environment, (4) and to investigate the students' opinion towards using debate instruction in a flipped learning environment. Twenty-four high school students in English programs in Bangkok were chosen as the sample group. The findings revealed that 1) there was a significant improvement of the participants' English speaking ability after …

The Struggle To Re-Establish Anglo Superiority In American Modernism And Its Collapse Into American Tragedy, Jeff Brelvi

Dissertations and Theses

A study of the impact Anglo race assertion had on American Modernism through the work of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and T.S. Eliot shaping the discourse on American cultural identity. Arthur Miller and his "Tragedy and the Common Man" put an end to Modernism's Anglo stronghold and brought about the next period of American literature, ushering it into the era of American tragedy.

The Star-Spangled Banshee: Fear Of The Unknown In The Things They Carried, Mckay Hansen

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

In this paper I discuss the nature of the fear that worked upon many of the soldiers of the Vietnam War, concentrating on a fear of the unknown. Drawing upon Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried as its central focus text, my analysis suggests that the fear of the unknown is a product of communities’ efforts to distance themselves from a cultural Other. As such, I posit that those in positions of societal influence employ fear to reinforce racial stereotypes and maintain domestic unity. Perceiving ethnic and linguistic misunderstandings as forces that cultural leaders often evoke deliberately, I claim that …

L2 Acquisition Of Wh-Operator Movement In English Open Interrogatives By L1 Thai Learners: A Case Of The Failed Functional Features Hypothesis, Pairoj Kunanupatham

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Based on the Failed Functional Features Hypothesis (FFFH) (Hawkins and Chan, 1997), the current study aims at investigating L1 Thai learners' acquisition of the wh-operator movement in English open interrogatives. Two primary objectives included (1) to explore whether the wh-operator movement in English can be acquired by L1 Thai learners and (2) to account for the data by the FFFH. Due to the non-existence of the strong uninterpretable [uwh] feature in Thai, it is hypothesized that L1 Thai learners of English fail to acquire English open interrogatives by means of the operator movement and that variability in English open interrogatives …

The Impact Of Language Assessment Literacy Training On Efl University Lecturers’ Language Assessment Literacy, Efficacy And Practice Of Student Self-Assessment, Nattharmma Thong-Iam

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The literature suggested that limited assessment literacy in the use of SSA has led to insufficient use of SSA in Thai tertiary EFL classrooms. This study examined the current assessment practice, assessment literacy, and assessment efficacy in the use of SSA of the EFL lecturers who were serving at the nine Rajamangala Universities (RMUTs) and the effect of assessment literacy training on the assessment literacy, assessment efficacy, and assessment practice in the use of SSA among four EFL lecturers from one particular Rajamangala University. In this study, the researcher utilised mixed-methods research, a paradigm in which she drew on data …

Enhancing Learner Autonomy Amongst Young Efl Learners In A Rural Area: An Ethnographic Study And Praxis Interventions, Pantipa Pichailuck

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Learner Autonomy (LA) is acknowledged as being beneficial to EFL education, particularly in rural areas where resources are scarce. However, LA enhancement should be implemented with careful consideration to the context. This study consisted of two parts. The first part, the ethnographic study, aimed to (1) explore the awareness of LA among the stakeholders including the administrators, English teachers, guardians and local community, and (2) to explore the meanings and patterns of LA among young EFL learners in a rural school in Northeastern Thailand. This part is a qualitative study combining the data collection methods of non-intrusive and participation observations, …

Effects Of The Genre-Based Writing Instructional Module In A Blended Learning Environment On English Writing Ability And Thinking Skills Of Thai Undergraduate Students, Patricia Visser

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The study aim (1) to develop the genre-based writing instructional module in a blended learning environment, (2) to investigate the students' writing ability after implementing the genre-based writing instructional module in a blended learning environment, (3) to investigate the students' thinking skills after implementing the genre-based writing instructional module in a blended learning environment, (4) to investigate the relationship between writing ability and thinking skills, and (5) to investigate the students' attitude toward using genre-based writing instructional module in a blended learning environment. Thirty-five first-year undergraduate students in Srinakharinwirot University were chosen as the sample group. The study was a …

The Acquisition Order Of L2 English Infinitive And Gerund Complements By L1 Thai Learners: A Usage-Based Approach, Raksina Keawchaum

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The current study aimed to investigate the frequency effects on the acquisition of L2 English infinitive and gerund complements among L1 Thai learners. The participants were first-year undergraduate students from They were categorized into the low and the high proficiency groups based on their CU-TEP scores. Each group consisted of 30 participants. The participants were required to complete the Word Selection Task (WST) and the Grammaticality Judgement Test (GJT). Two research hypotheses were formulated based on the usage-based theory. First, it was hypothesized that Thai learners would acquire the infinitive complements before the gerund complements and the findings conformed to …

The Effects Of English Accented Speeches, Specific Content Knowledge, And Test-Taking Strategies On Listening Comprehension Of High And Low Efl Achievers, Pornchanok Sukpan

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This study aimed to examine (1) the effects of three main variables: English-accented speeches, specific content knowledge, and test-taking strategies on listening comprehension of high and low EFL learners. It also investigated (2) the relationship among these three variables on listening comprehension of high and low EFL achievers, and (3) the attitudes of both high and low EFL achievers towards English-accented speech. Eighty third-year university students from the Faculty of Communication Arts were purposively selected and classified into two different English proficiency groups: high and low regarding the z score of ±1 on the average grades of two prerequisite English …

The Development Of An English Essay Writing Course Based On The Self-Monitoring And Peer Feedback Strategies For Thai Undergraduate English For International Communication Students, Thanakorn Weerathai

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The objectives of this study were (1) to investigate the needs of English essay writing skills of Thai undergraduate English for Intermational Communication students and their teachers, (2) to develop an English essay writing course based on the SMPFS to enhance English essay writing performance of English for International Communication students, (3) to investigate the effectiveness of the course developed based on the SMPFS, and (4) to explore the students' attitudes toward the course developed based on the SMPFS. In this mixed methods study, it comprised of three phases: needs analysis, course development, and main study. This study was conducted …

Needs Analysis Of English Oral Communication For The Automotive Maintenance And Repair Profession, Witchuda Thakadkul

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This study aims to investigate the needs of English oral communication for the automotive maintenance and repair profession based on perspectives of automotive mechanical students and stakeholders in the automotive industry in the Bangkok Metropolitan Area, and to propose an English oral communication course syllabus for automotive mechanical students' profession. The study is a survey research consisting of two phases: needs analysis and course syllabus development. The needs analysis process was based on the framework ESP needs analysis of Brown (2016). Data were collected by means of questionnaires with one hundred and nineteen automotive mechanical students and five stakeholders, and …

The Geometry Of Loss: A Novel, Elidio La Torre La Torre

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

In the year 2025, Orlando Aniello, nicknamed “Or,” a Puerto Rican poet with a broken life, becomes a “consciousness in virtual space.” Tricked by a couple of goons that devote most of their duties to bootleg memories for people who lead dull and meaningless lives, Orlando’s personality splits into fragments. As consequence, his actual experiences blend the host’s own recollections, which accidentally upload to Orlando’s brain. If bootleg mnemonic technologies glitch, Orlando does not know who he is anymore. Indeed, Orlando/ Gogo/ Alejandro suffers anterograde memory loss, and the narrator becomes merely a voice without a body. A geometry of …

Grammars And Rhetorics, Ian Cornelius

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Grammar and rhetoric were the disciplines charged with teaching correct and effective use of language in antiquity. In the Middle Ages, these disciplines served to maintain Latin as a language of culture, religion, and administration over much of Europe. Grammatical studies flourished in medieval England following the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. Subsequent developments in grammatical and rhetorical studies in Britain in the Middle Ages track deep changes in the social conditioning of literacy and social demands upon literacy. Among the medieval English innovations in these disciplines were the teaching of Latin as a foreign language, the cultural accommodation …

"It's Oil And Water": Race, Gender, Power, And Trauma In Vu Tran's Dragonfish, Quan-Manh Ha, Chase Greenfield

Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies

ABSTRACT: This article analyzes in-depth the interplay between race, gender, power, and trauma in Vu Tran’s debut novel, Dragonfish. We argue that Dragonfish focuses on the relationships, desires, and conflicts among its three protagonists—Robert, Suzy, and Sonny—to highlight how their postwar interactions complicate race, gender, trauma, and remembrance. The three protagonists engage in an intense socio-political struggle for dominance and control, which is riddled with irony, heart-wrenching pain, and misleading appearances. They experience hardship and loss, but they rely on each other for recovery from past and present trauma, and to advance their own varying personal priorities and agendas: …

Ecocritical Post-Colonial Studies On Humans, Land, And Animals, Alia Afzal

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Ecocritical post-colonial study is a newly emerged field in literary criticism. The theory combines the study of post-colonial environment in literary work and reveals a relationship between literature and the environment. Before the word ‘Ecocriticism’ was coined in the world of literature, from the beginning, writers were exclusively engaged presenting nature as source of inspiration and a privilege to evolve their ideas and pen them down. With the introduction of the term Ecocriticism in literary criticism by the Association of the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) in 1993, scholars approached the analysis of texts to highlight environmental concerns and …

"Goo-Prone And Generally Pathetic": Empathy And Irony In David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, Benjamin L. Peyton

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Critical considerations of David Foster Wallace’s work have tended, on the whole, to use the framework that the author himself established in his essay “E Unibus Pluram” and in his interview with Larry McCaffery. Following his own lead, the critical consensus is that Wallace succeeds in overcoming the limits of postmodern irony. If we examine the formal trappings of his writing, however, we find that the critical assertion that Wallace manages to transcend the paralytic irony of his postmodern predecessors is made in the face of his frequent employment of postmodern techniques and devices. Thus, there arises a contradiction between …

The Rhetoric Of Health And Medicine As A “Teaching Subject”: Lessons From The Medical Humanities And Simulation Pedagogy, Lillian Campbell

English Faculty Research and Publications

The rhetoric of health and medicine has only begun to intervene in health pedagogy. In contrast, the medical humanities has spearheaded curriculum to address dehumanizing trends in medicine. This article argues that rhetorical scholars can align with medical humanities’ initiatives and uniquely contribute to health curriculum. Drawing on the author’s research on clinical simulation, the article discusses rhetorical methodologies, genre theory, and critical lenses as areas for pedagogical collaboration between rhetoricians and health practitioners.