Rhetoric and Composition Commons^™

Sample Personal Statement #2 For College Application, Angela Gulick

Personal Statements for College Applications and Scholarships

This handout provides an example of a personal statement for a college application.

Active And Passive Voice, Angela Gulick

Style and Mechanics

This instructional handout distinguishes the difference between active and passive voice in writing, and suggests using active voice unless instructed otherwise, most notably in scientific writing.

Agreement, Angela Gulick

Style and Mechanics

This instructional handout covers the topics of subject, verb, and pronoun agreement and offers advice on how to correct errors.

Capitalization, Angela Gulick

Style and Mechanics

This instructional handout offers guidelines for knowing when to capitalize words.

Conciseness And Clarity, Angela Gulick

Style and Mechanics

This instructional handout offers guidelines for writing in a more concise and clear manner.

Conjunctions, Angela Gulick

Style and Mechanics

This instructional handout offers guidelines for using conjunctions.

Point Of View, Angela Gulick

Style and Mechanics

This instructional handout identifies the three types of point of view in writing.

Pronouns, Angela Gulick

Style and Mechanics

This instructional handout addresses some common pitfalls when using pronouns in writing and makes suggestions for how to correct these errors.

Singulars And Plurals, Lori Williams, Sally Wallace

Style and Mechanics

This instructional handout provides information on singular and plural nouns and pronouns and the appropriate use of apostrophes when making nouns possessive.

Verb Tenses, Angela Gulick

Style and Mechanics

This instructional handout highlights verb tense (past, present, and future) and discusses verb tense agreement errors and irregular verbs.

Column Graphs Using Microsoft Word 365, Angela Gulick

Graphs, Charts, and Tables

This handout demonstrates how to create column graphs using Microsoft Word 365.

Setting Up A Paper Using Microsoft Word 365, Sue Jones

Computer Tutorials

This instructional handout provides a visual for setting up line spacing using Microsoft Word 365.

Tables Using Microsoft Word 365, Angela Gulick

Graphs, Charts, and Tables

This handout provides instruction for creating a table using Microsoft Word 365.

Headers Using Microsoft Word 365, Angela Gulick

Computer Tutorials

This handout provides instructions for how to create headers using Microsoft Word 365.

Seven Steps For Incorporating Visuals, Angela Gulick

Graphs, Charts, and Tables

This handout demonstrates how to use graphs, tables, and charts in a Microsoft Word 365 document.

Pie Charts Using Microsoft Word 365, Angela Gulick

Graphs, Charts, and Tables

This handout demonstrates how to use Microsoft Word 365 to build pie charts.

Tables Using Microsoft Word 365, Angela Gulick

Computer Tutorials

This handout provides instruction for creating a table using Microsoft Word 365.

Job Application Letter And Résumé Sample #4, Ruijie Zhao

Employment Materials

This handout provides a sample of a job application letter and résumé to help students construct their own.

Commas, Angela Gulick

Punctuation

This handout provides examples showing appropriate use of commas.

Paraphrasing, Summarizing, And Quoting Sources, Angela Gulick

Research Skills

This handout provides a chart that compares paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting sources.

Direct Quotations, Angela Gulick

Research Skills

This handout provides step-by-step information on using direct quotations.

My Soul Cries Out: Reimagining Lament For Research And Language Practice With Edwidge Danticat, Tanya Jo Woodward

English Theses, Dissertations, and Student Creative Activity

This thesis examines the implications of the genre of lament for the writing classroom. The thesis will address how Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian author, expresses joy and sorrow in her writing and how she can serve as a model text for students as they write. The thesis will also consider what Danticat's use of language means for the writing classroom, language policies, and the CCCC's "Student's Right To their Own Language" position statement. As Danticat explores the individual and communal juxtaposition of tragedy and celebration, her writing echoes the varied tenor and emotions of the Psalms. The Psalmic style is …

The White House: No Drugs Allowed, Olivia A. Jones

Communication Studies

The War on Drugs is a long-term metaphorical war designed to reduce illegal drug distribution, trade, and use by maintaining significant punishment for drug dealers and users. This paper serves to examine how U.S. presidents throughout history have impacted this drug war through their targeted rhetoric and ensuing policies. I examine the research question, “How have presidents used their rhetorical power to perpetuate the War on Drugs while pushing a tough-on-crime narrative that portrays certain drug users and minorities as deviants responsible for crime?” Historical contexts, primary sources, and existing research are used to examine the issue. Using Ideographic Criticism, …

Developing Support For Stalled Dissertators, Vicki R. Kennell, Eric J. Wisz

Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Presentations

Graduate students writing dissertations often confront academic or personal issues that may cause them to lose momentum and stop progress on their dissertations. This workshop helped attendees to consider reasons why graduate students writing dissertations become stalled, to conceptualize what a program designed specifically to help stalled dissertators might look like, and to experience the process of creating methods and resources for such a program. Materials include hands-on activities and handouts that can be used to walk through the process of developing a writing support program for dissertators.

Expressivism And Its (Dis)Contents: Tracing Theory And Practice From History To Here And Now, Sasha A. Maceira

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation explores the theory and practice of expressivism as a pedagogy viable for the twenty-first century. Expressivism, in its inception (1960s), was wrongly perceived in many ways for the seemingly superfluous nature of its intentions; mainly it was targeted as an elitist, individualistic approach to the teaching of composition, only seen as suitable for a privileged student body. What was entirely overlooked that expressivism offered, were the more conventional ideologies and activities, such as process theory and peer review—things we use and cherish to this day. What I discovered through archival research was that expressivism then was inadvertently divided …

Receiving A Queen: A Queer And Trans Feminist Classical Reception Rhetorical Historiography Of Elagabalus, Thomas William Passwater

Dissertations - ALL

This dissertation studies representations of Elagabalus, the sovereign of Rome who ruled between 218–222ce, after her assassination to examine how depictions and historical accounts of Elagabalus's life make rhetorical decisions about Elagabalus's identity and being that can foreground the composer's relationship to history and the function of history as a rhetorical force. Thus, this project, through studying Elagabalus's composers, raises questions about the nature of figure studies and history. The project draws on trans, queer, and feminist theories and rhetorics which help highlight the contingent and conflicting nature of Elagabalus's identities across representations without settling them into a singular narrative …

An Overheated Debate: The Influence Of Premillennial Apocalyptic Rhetoric On Climate Reform Discourse In The United States, David Charles Gall-Maynard

Dissertations - ALL

Despite decades of scientific research and increased civil and governmental calls for reform, the United States continues to spiral toward climate catastrophe. Apocalyptic rhetoric helps us understand how even the most pressing environmental and societal threats are perceived differently according to audiences' rhetorical and ideological frameworks. Drawing on the work of Barry Brummett and Kenneth Burke, I argue that the premillennial sub-genre of apocalyptic rhetoric constitutes a rhetorical frame through which many secular climate reformers and evangelical Christians make sense of the environmental and societal impacts of climate change. In chapters that analyze secular and Christian climate reform discourse and …

Refreshing The Research Process, John Venecek, Rachel Edford

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This presentation was given at the Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning Summer 2022 Conference. It was a discovery session designed to share fresh, innovative ideas for teaching research in an informal, personal setting. The hosts presented on their recent collaborations with instructors before inviting attendees to share their “fresh” approaches to teaching research, ideas for collaborations, best practices, and more.

Isocrates's Place In Postmodern Advertising, Christopher Barkley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study in communication and rhetoric seeks to ascertain constructive applications for distinct advertising practices by examining Isocrates’s work and place in postmodern advertising. The focus uses 5 principles known to Isocrates which are: 1) commonwealths of households, 2) integration of reputation, elegance, substance and style, 3) education and public discourse, 4) phronesis and praxis, and 5) truth and verisimilitude. These 5 principles can form a constructive and practical advertising approach. This study is important. It examines Isocrates through the lens of advertising and extends the research done about him by leading Isocrates scholars who have looked primarily at his …

Adam Smith And Corporate Communication: Convergence, Embodiment, And Enhancement, Lazarus Langbiir

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

ABSTRACT

ADAM SMITH AND CORPORATE COMMUNICATION

Convergence, Embodiment, and Enhancement

By

Lazarus Langbiir

May 2022

Dissertation supervised by Dr. Ronald C. Arnett

The importance of Adam Smith’s thought and legacy for understanding corporate communication today is at the heart of this dissertation. Corporate communication is seen in this study as “one corporate body” interacting with its stakeholders in a complex world by embracing multiplicity or difference and managing communication needs in a manner that is coherent. By examining the thought and legacy of Adam Smith within the field of corporate communication, this dissertation seeks to extend the understanding of corporate …