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Authority And The Discourse Of Disabilities, Scott Lunsford Nov 2005

Authority And The Discourse Of Disabilities, Scott Lunsford

Scott Lunsford

No abstract provided.


The Lord Of The Night, Linda Niemann Oct 2005

The Lord Of The Night, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

No abstract provided.


Hospital Yard (Reading), Linda Niemann Oct 2005

Hospital Yard (Reading), Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

No abstract provided.


A Space For The Rhetoric Of Disabilities: A Foucauldian Approach, Scott Lunsford Sep 2005

A Space For The Rhetoric Of Disabilities: A Foucauldian Approach, Scott Lunsford

Scott Lunsford

No abstract provided.


Wendy And The Lost Boys On The Lawrence Switcher, Linda Niemann Mar 2005

Wendy And The Lost Boys On The Lawrence Switcher, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Recounts an experience as a switchman in Southern Pacific. Duties and responsibilities as a switchman; Career opportunities provided by the job; Lessons learned from railroad jobs.


Continuing Education In Technical Communication, John Battalio Mar 2005

Continuing Education In Technical Communication, John Battalio

John T. Battalio

In the November 1995 issue of Technical Communication, Krestas, Fisher, and Hackos described the "dramatic changes" occurring in business and industry. These changes were shifting the focus of continuing education toward topics of leadership and management. Ten years later, our field is evolving more quickly than ever, focused now not on topics such as those described in 1995, but on the very nature of technical communication itself.


Conflicting Standards: The Rhetoric Of Disabilities And The Media, Scott Lunsford Jan 2005

Conflicting Standards: The Rhetoric Of Disabilities And The Media, Scott Lunsford

Scott Lunsford

No abstract provided.


Alien Abductions As Mythmaking, Stephanie Kelley-Romano Dec 2004

Alien Abductions As Mythmaking, Stephanie Kelley-Romano

Stephanie Kelley-Romano

No abstract provided.


Refiguring Prose Style : Possibilities For Writing Pedagogy / Edited By T.R. Johnson, Tom Pace, Tom Pace Dec 2004

Refiguring Prose Style : Possibilities For Writing Pedagogy / Edited By T.R. Johnson, Tom Pace, Tom Pace

Tom Pace

No abstract provided.


“It’S Like A Story”: Rhetorical Knowledge Development In Advanced Academic Literacy, Christine Tardy Dec 2004

“It’S Like A Story”: Rhetorical Knowledge Development In Advanced Academic Literacy, Christine Tardy

Christine M. Tardy

In the academic ranks of schooling, writing tasks move gradually from a focus on the transmission of knowledge to the transformation of knowledge. As a more complex writing task, knowledge-transforming requires writers to engage in the rhetorical act of persuading readers of their work's value, significance, and credibility. At the postgraduate level, writers may be wrestling with these issues for the first time, often discovering this more occluded rhetorical dimension only after they have become somewhat more comfortable with issues of generic form or subject-matter content. This paper explores the nature and role of rhetorical knowledge in advanced academic literacy …


Darkness In El Dorado: The Textual Construction Of Ethos In An Anthropological Controversy, David Depew Dec 2004

Darkness In El Dorado: The Textual Construction Of Ethos In An Anthropological Controversy, David Depew

David J Depew

No abstract provided.


Seeking A Rhetoric Of The Rhetoric Of Dis/Abilities, Scott Lunsford Dec 2004

Seeking A Rhetoric Of The Rhetoric Of Dis/Abilities, Scott Lunsford

Scott Lunsford

No abstract provided.


Expressions Of Disciplinarity And Individuality In A Multimodal Genre., Christine Tardy Dec 2004

Expressions Of Disciplinarity And Individuality In A Multimodal Genre., Christine Tardy

Christine M. Tardy

Recent research has illuminated some of the ways in which multilingual writers project multiple identities in their writing, conveying disciplinary allegiances as well as more personal expressions of individuality. Such work has focused on writers' uses of various verbal expressions, but has to this point overlooked the ways in which writers manipulate the visual mode as a means for identity expression. The present study examines expressions of identity in a corpus of multimodal texts written by four multilingual graduate student writers. I consider how the writers' uses of various verbal and visual expressions in their PowerPoint presentation slides project both …


Style And The Renaissance Of Composition Studies, Tom Pace Dec 2004

Style And The Renaissance Of Composition Studies, Tom Pace

Tom Pace

No abstract provided.


Embodied Literacies Project, I, Jenn Fishman Dec 2004

Embodied Literacies Project, I, Jenn Fishman

Jenn Fishman

Co-Principal Investigators Jenn Fishman and Stacey Pigg led the first year of the Embodied Literacies Project.


Itc Faculty First Grant Application, Jenn Fishman Dec 2004

Itc Faculty First Grant Application, Jenn Fishman

Jenn Fishman

No abstract provided.


Summer Gra Application (2005), Jenn Fishman Dec 2004

Summer Gra Application (2005), Jenn Fishman

Jenn Fishman

This Summer GRA Award supported work that Stacey Pigg completed with Jenn Fishman for the Embodied Literacies Project in Summer of 2005.


Language And Gender (Summer 2005 Syllabus), Adam Hodges Dec 2004

Language And Gender (Summer 2005 Syllabus), Adam Hodges

Adam Hodges

LING 2400 familiarizes students with the effects of gender on language use; discusses popular beliefs and scholarly theories about language and communication; and provides students with tools for exploring the role of language and gender.


Language In Us Society (Fall 2005 Syllabus), Adam Hodges Dec 2004

Language In Us Society (Fall 2005 Syllabus), Adam Hodges

Adam Hodges

LING 1000 is a survey course that provides a non-technical exploration of the ways that language is used in America. It emphasizes language as a social institution and how values and goals of both public institutions and private groups shape, and are shaped by language and its use.


Language In Us Society (Spring 2005 Syllabus), Adam Hodges Dec 2004

Language In Us Society (Spring 2005 Syllabus), Adam Hodges

Adam Hodges

LING 1000 is a survey course that provides a non-technical exploration of the ways that language is used in America. It emphasizes language as a social institution and how values and goals of both public institutions and private groups shape, and are shaped by language and its use.


Review Of Paul Chilton's (2004) Analysing Political Discourse, Adam Hodges Dec 2004

Review Of Paul Chilton's (2004) Analysing Political Discourse, Adam Hodges

Adam Hodges

No abstract provided.