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Full-Text Articles in Rhetoric and Composition
Causes Of Unease: Horror Rhetoric In Fiction And Film, Benjamin Kane Ethridge
Causes Of Unease: Horror Rhetoric In Fiction And Film, Benjamin Kane Ethridge
Theses Digitization Project
How do artists scare us? Horror filmmakers and novelists alike can accomplish fear, revulsion, and disturbance in their respective audiences. The rhetorical and stylistic strategies employed to evoke these feelings are unique to the genre. Divulging these strategies will be the major focus of this thesis, yet there will also be discussion on the social and cultural background of the Horror genre.
Zapatistas: The Shifting Rhetoric Of A Modern Revolution, Ofelia Morales Bejar
Zapatistas: The Shifting Rhetoric Of A Modern Revolution, Ofelia Morales Bejar
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis studies the rhetoric of the Zapatista Revolution and social movement through the analysis of Zapatista messages using the method of cluster criticism. It explores changes in the rhetoric of confrontation and the rhetoric of peace used by the Zapatistas to further their cause during the last ten years of the revolution.
Rhetorical And Narrative Structures In John Hersey's Hiroshima: How They Breathe Life Into The Tale Of A Doomed City, James Richard Smart
Rhetorical And Narrative Structures In John Hersey's Hiroshima: How They Breathe Life Into The Tale Of A Doomed City, James Richard Smart
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this thesis will explore rhetorical and narrative devices author John Hersey used to create Hiroshima, one of the foremost non-fictional works of the twentieth century.
The Rhetoric Of State Assessment: Educational Politics In The Public School System, Renee Michelle Longshore
The Rhetoric Of State Assessment: Educational Politics In The Public School System, Renee Michelle Longshore
Theses Digitization Project
In this thesis I explore the rhetoric behind the assessment push nation-wide and, particularly, in California. I take a close look at what politicians, educators, and citizens say about public education and their views of the current educational reform: whether they are speaking in support of or opposition to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. I look specifically at the finances of public education in California, the impact and current outcome of NCLB, and propose new reforms as suggested by those intimately involved in education.
Being Sisyphus: A Writing Pedagogy For At-Risk Students, Eric David Sullivan
Being Sisyphus: A Writing Pedagogy For At-Risk Students, Eric David Sullivan
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis discussess the limitations of the standards-based movement and suggests that some schools, especially those whose mission it is to work exclusively with at-risk students, need to be allowed to set local behavioral standards before any consideration can be given to setting and teaching academic standards. It mainly focuses on Phoenix High School, a community day school in the Corona-Norco Unified School District, and discusses how the standards based movement is not suited to meet the needs of its students.
Genre In First Year Composition: The Missing Link To Transferability?, Sandra Patricia Halsey
Genre In First Year Composition: The Missing Link To Transferability?, Sandra Patricia Halsey
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis suggests the incorporation of "Genre Theory" into First Year Composition (FYC) at California State University (CSUSB) as a means of alleviating the lack of transfer of what is learned in FYC to other university writing. In examing the feasibility of that incorporation, it takes into consideration the demands made on the FYC course across universities and specifically at CSUSB.
Stephen Gosson's Rhetorical Strategies In The School Of Abuse, Timothy Paul Johnson
Stephen Gosson's Rhetorical Strategies In The School Of Abuse, Timothy Paul Johnson
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis shows how Stephen Gosson's The School of Abuse (1579) functions as a rhetorical composition. The elements of writer, readership, and text are each examined in order to elucidate the rhetorical decisions made by Gosson during the composition of The School.
Illusions Of Idle Prattle: Disney, Voice And The Little Mermaid, Veronica Diaz-Cox
Illusions Of Idle Prattle: Disney, Voice And The Little Mermaid, Veronica Diaz-Cox
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis examines the social and economic impact of Disney's gender roles, and the recurring motif of singing in both Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid and Walt Disney's film adaptation.
Blurred Relationships: The Factual Fiction Of John Edgar Wideman, Melissa Bakeman Hartmann
Blurred Relationships: The Factual Fiction Of John Edgar Wideman, Melissa Bakeman Hartmann
Theses Digitization Project
Control is a central issue in any text: does the author's intention or the reader's interpretation better explain the resulting meaning of the text? This question has long been the subject of debate among textual theorists; this essay proposes a middle ground, namely that the author and the reader engage in a collaborative effort to make meaning in a text.
Implicature And Argumentation, Jon Nelsen Preacher
Implicature And Argumentation, Jon Nelsen Preacher
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis explores the role, if any, that implicature plays as a strategy in informal debate. Transcripts of spontaneous debates from television and radio public affairs talk shows were analyzed with a focus on the use of implicature as a strategic rhetorical tool employed to gain advantage in an argument.
Internal Dialogues: Construction Of The Self In The Woman Warrior, Ann Shirley Modzelewski
Internal Dialogues: Construction Of The Self In The Woman Warrior, Ann Shirley Modzelewski
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis considers past autobiographical theory and questions whether it addresses the autobiography of the female writer. Autobiographies of Harriet Jacobs, Margaret Sanger, and Maxine Hong Kingston are examined to reveal their polyvocality, use of the autobiographical "I", and rhetorical strategies maintained in order to create a close relationship with the reader. Particular attention is paid to Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogism and Sidonie Smith's autobiographical "I."
Exploring Visual Learning In The Basic Writing Classroom, Prince Michael Ferguson
Exploring Visual Learning In The Basic Writing Classroom, Prince Michael Ferguson
Theses Digitization Project
For many students in basic writing classrooms the language of writing assignments, essay prompts and required reading is especially difficult. Therefore, some teachers are using approaches other than logical or linguistic methods to assist these students. This thesis details some of the methods teachers and researchers are using. Most significant is a case study that explores the use of visuals in a basic writing classroom. The results of the case study and a survey instrument suggest that there is a niche for alternative methods and the use of visuals in the basic writing classroom.
Home And Who: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Rudyard Kipling's "Tiger! Tiger!' And "Letting In The Jungle", Steven Clark Estus
Home And Who: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Rudyard Kipling's "Tiger! Tiger!' And "Letting In The Jungle", Steven Clark Estus
Theses Digitization Project
These stories are representative of an idea that is repeatedly expressed both in the concrete details of Kipling's stories and in the way he uses language. It is possible to see that Kipling, the archetypical man of the empire, may not always have been the empire's man in his work; and causes for that may be found in the alluring, very non-English place he lived in for several years of his youth: India.
The Knowledge And Skills Of Freshman Writers, Aram Paul Sarkisian
The Knowledge And Skills Of Freshman Writers, Aram Paul Sarkisian
Theses Digitization Project
This research identifies what proficient writers know and do by the end of their freshman year in college and raises the kind of questions that improve the articulation of English instruction.
Re-Examining The Personal Narrative In First Year Composition, Kathryn Marie Hansler
Re-Examining The Personal Narrative In First Year Composition, Kathryn Marie Hansler
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis explores the current theories on the personal narrative (as a tool in teaching freshman composition) and examines the ways that this essay is now being used in first year courses at California State University, San Bernardino.
The Working Hour: A Rhetorical Analysis Of The Lyrics Of Tears For Fears, Jennifer Anne Gross-Mejía
The Working Hour: A Rhetorical Analysis Of The Lyrics Of Tears For Fears, Jennifer Anne Gross-Mejía
Theses Digitization Project
Childhood friends Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal founded the band Tears for Fears, and were the two primary members from 1982-1990. Their songs describe the struggle of coping with childhood abuse. This thesis analyzes the rhetorical aspects of their lyrics, emphasizing how the words of their songs express the fundamental human response to abuse, and the painful process of recovery. It explores how the songwriters use the psychological theories of Arthur Janov and Carl Jung to scaffold their experience of working through emotional trauma; and how they combine those theories with astrological symbolism to explore the idea of destiny. This …
The Old Man And The Sea: Hemingway, Heteroglossia, And The Hero's Voice, Carole Sue Spitler
The Old Man And The Sea: Hemingway, Heteroglossia, And The Hero's Voice, Carole Sue Spitler
Theses Digitization Project
In this subjective hero concept lies an intriguing aspect of Bakhtin's paradigm: A hero is not necessarily a living entity; a hero can be ideas, objects and locations. When viewed through the lens of traditional western rhetorical theory, Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea appears as a monologue wherein Santiago seemingly speaks for the author about the subject of doom and man's relationship to the world.
Gunsmoke: An Investigation Of Conversational Implicature And Guns & Ammo Magazine, Kerry Lynn Winn
Gunsmoke: An Investigation Of Conversational Implicature And Guns & Ammo Magazine, Kerry Lynn Winn
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
A Stylistic Analysis Of 2pac Shakur's Rap Lyrics: In The Perpspective Of Paul Grice's Theory Of Implicature, Christopher Darnell Campbell
A Stylistic Analysis Of 2pac Shakur's Rap Lyrics: In The Perpspective Of Paul Grice's Theory Of Implicature, Christopher Darnell Campbell
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
Connecting Composition And Literature Through The Rhetorical Situation, Maria Luisa Douglas Notarangelo
Connecting Composition And Literature Through The Rhetorical Situation, Maria Luisa Douglas Notarangelo
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis suggests that the idea of the rhetorical situation-a work's text (or language), author, audience, and social context-can serve as a connection between literature, literary theory, and composition studies. Criticisms of Emily Dickinson's Poem 754 are presented, and each is categorized according to the element of the rhetorical situation upon which it focuses.
The Challenges Of And Opportuniies In Using A Literature-Based Assignment In A Composition Class, Jeffrey Merrit Carman
The Challenges Of And Opportuniies In Using A Literature-Based Assignment In A Composition Class, Jeffrey Merrit Carman
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis explores issues surrounding the question of using a literature-based assignment to teach composition at the college freshman level. Following a review of the critical debate on the use of literature in the composition classroom, spanning the last five decades, a specific work of literature is used as the basis for a writing assignment to be given to a freshman composition class.
Applying Kenneth Burke's Dramatistic Pentad For Revision Strategies For Inexperienced Writers, Joette Ilene Whims
Applying Kenneth Burke's Dramatistic Pentad For Revision Strategies For Inexperienced Writers, Joette Ilene Whims
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
Computers And Composition Communities: Solidarity As A Research Paradigm, Richard James Colby
Computers And Composition Communities: Solidarity As A Research Paradigm, Richard James Colby
Theses Digitization Project
After a brief history of composition studies demonstrating a community realizing the need for more inclusive research practices, this thesis shows composition struggling with its identity as an academically legitimized discipline.
The Effects Of Storytelling On Student Writing: A Tool For The English Language Learner Classroom, Heather Margret-Marie Mead
The Effects Of Storytelling On Student Writing: A Tool For The English Language Learner Classroom, Heather Margret-Marie Mead
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis examines the use of storytelling as a tool to facilitate writing in English language learners. It examines specifically the effects storytelling had on the student use of expressive language, story structure and creativity in their writing. It also analyzed the enjoyment level storytelling brought to the writing experience of the student.
Social Distance, Motivation And Other Factors Contributing To Success In Language Acquisition And Achievement Among Adolescent Mexican Immigrants, Alice Yvette Muniz-Cornejo
Social Distance, Motivation And Other Factors Contributing To Success In Language Acquisition And Achievement Among Adolescent Mexican Immigrants, Alice Yvette Muniz-Cornejo
Theses Digitization Project
Adolescent immigrant English learners who enter U.S. schools at the secondary level are faced with challenges that distinguish their experience in second language acquisition from that of children and adults. Some of the challenges they face include limited time to acquire academic English proficiencey in reading and writing, difficulty in assimilating into English speaking American culture, and limited programs and services at the secondary level.
The Power Of Voice: Cultural Silencing And The Supernatural In Women's Stories: Allende's The House Of The Spirits, Kingston's The Woman Warrior, And Morrison's Beloved, Katie Suzanne Skrove
The Power Of Voice: Cultural Silencing And The Supernatural In Women's Stories: Allende's The House Of The Spirits, Kingston's The Woman Warrior, And Morrison's Beloved, Katie Suzanne Skrove
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis focuses on a study of the female voice and silencing as well as on the use of the supernatural in selected works of literature from three different cultures: Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, and Toni Morrison's Beloved.
Critical Thinking And Ideology: A Study Of Composition's Secondary Curricula, Jonathan Barney Anderson
Critical Thinking And Ideology: A Study Of Composition's Secondary Curricula, Jonathan Barney Anderson
Theses Digitization Project
In 1992 Maxine Hairston "Diversity, Ideology, and Teaching Writing" claimed that instead of teaching writing and critical thinking skills, First year Composition (FYC) instructors were instead using their classrooms as coercive political platforms that were detrimental to students' educational needs.
English Writing Placement Assessment: Implications For At-Risk Learners, Janis Linch Banks Fisher
English Writing Placement Assessment: Implications For At-Risk Learners, Janis Linch Banks Fisher
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis reviews literature regarding English writing placement assessment and its impact on at-risk (under-prepared) college students.
Constructing Critical Readers And Writers Through The Teaching Of Irony In The Composition Classroom, Bruce Stephen Wolcott
Constructing Critical Readers And Writers Through The Teaching Of Irony In The Composition Classroom, Bruce Stephen Wolcott
Theses Digitization Project
The construction of critically literate students must be paramount among goals in the freshman composition classroom. The approach for constructing critical readers positioned in this thesis employs conceptualizing both the complexity of a text and the importance of comprehending the context within which a text is both read and written. It utilizes the rhetorical feature of irony.
Teaching The Reading/Writing Connection In The Diverse Community College Classroom, Claudia Eleanore Wissbeck-Kittel
Teaching The Reading/Writing Connection In The Diverse Community College Classroom, Claudia Eleanore Wissbeck-Kittel
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis argues that with the racial and ethnic diversity becoming more pronounced in the diverse disciplines of the two year college we are going to need to adapt a cultural studies pedagogy in the writing class.