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Title: Presidential Eulogies in the Wake of Mass School Shootings: A Call to Action
Author: Culletto, Gordon
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Political science, Rhetoric
Description: President Barack Obama described December 14, 2012 saying, "it continues to haunt me, it was one of the worst days of my presidency." That morning, a gunman stormed through the doors of Sandy Hook Elementary School and began opening fire on childr...

Title: Reality Collapses, "Real or Not Real?": The Theoretical Consequences of Compromised Authenticity in Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay
Author: Pailthorpe, Brittany
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Literature, Rhetoric
Description: This thesis proposes the theorization of the consequences of what I deem compromised authenticity, in this hyper-mediated age. Drawing from the work of scholars concerned with the growing anxiety over the tension between the authentic and the inau...

Title: Performing Student, Teacher, and Tutor of Writing: Negotiating Ideas of Writing in a First-year Writing Course and Writing Center Tutorials
Author: Courtney, Jennifer
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Language arts, Rhetoric
Description: Based upon the sociocultural theories of Vygotsky, Bakhtin, Bourdieu, Holland et al. and the work of composition scholars such as Welch, Brannon et al., and Bousquet et al., who oppose neoliberal privatization, this qualitative study explores how ...

Title: Psychonautica: Rhetorical Patterns Within Self-Reported Psychedelic Narratives
Author: Amezquita, Joseph
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric, Religion, Spirituality
Description: An analysis was completed of the rhetorical and discursive patterns found in thenarratives of altered states of consciousness on the website Erowid.org, a repository ofinformation about psychoactive plants, chemicals, and related topics, as well a...

Title: Affiliation and Participation: What Fannish Practices Can Tell Us About Building Community in the Writing Center
Author: Mayfield, Hannah
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric
Description: This thesis examines the discursive activity of participatory fannish practices and the opportunities they afford the university writing center in responding to student writing. The project begins with an analysis of participatory fandom; specific...

Title: Into The Unknown: A Queer Analysis of the Metaphors in Disney's Frozen Franchise
Author: Farris, Molly
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric
Description: This thesis examines Frozen and Frozen II for its queer themes communicated through metaphors. After examining the queer metaphors in both films, the project examines online public discussions about the Disney franchise to determine if these opini...

Title: Employing Agency: Multiple Perspectives of Material Conditions, Power, and Literacy in a First Year Writing Program
Author: Rand, Meaghan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education, Rhetoric
Description: The purpose of this study is to examine how first year writing teachers' histories and experiences affect teacher agency negotiation in their classrooms. Five qualitative case studies of first year writing instructors are used to discuss the impac...

Title: Black Lives Matter and Black Power
Author: Fraser, Daviana
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Rhetoric, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Today, Black Americans face the same foes as in previous efforts to secure civil rights. Over the last decade, names like Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, Keith Lamont Scott, Philando Castile, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor join those ...

Title: Canvas of a Community: The Visual Rhetoric of Black Liberation in Charlotte, North Carolina
Author: Manning Jr., Mark
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric
Description: Public art, such as graffiti, street art and murals are powerful vessels of ontological expression that allow nuanced and contextual ideas to be communicated to and about the communities that they exist within. Charlotte (NC) has emerged as a wort...

Title: But Is it Service-learning?
Author: Steele, Lucy
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric, Education
Description: Two-year schools serve a high population of traditionally marginalized students, including students of color, first-generation college students, older students, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds (Ma & Baum, 2016). Historically, two-y...

Title: The Multiple Writing Genres of Online Learning: Students' Experience of Writing in the Online Classroom Space
Author: Wilson, Lynn
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Rhetoric, Educational technology
Description: Based upon theories of computer mediated communication of Herring and Lemke and the work of genre scholars such as Askehave, Santini, and Devitt, this qualitative study explored how computer mediated communication shapes writing genres in an onlin...

Title: The Rhetorical Importance of Monstrosity: Genre Criticism and "Wuthering Heights"
Author: Fussell, Taylor
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric
Description: In Emily Bronte’s foundational narrative Wuthering Heights (1847), monstrosity is representative of repressed societal fears in response to growing industrialization, shifting socioeconomic status, and changing gender norms of the Victorian era. T...

Title: Telling Stories for The Last of Us: A Ludonarrative Trauma Analysis
Author: Buescher, Holly
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Rhetoric, Sex role
Description: In this thesis, I propose that The Last of Us franchise functions as an exemplar on how survival horror video games are uniquely situated as a genre and medium to make precise statements about empathy, complicity, and trauma. However, upon applyin...

Title: What We Talk About When We Talk About Writer's Identity
Author: Cortez, Jessie
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric
Description: Although it is used by some first-year writing (FYW) instructors to help students improve their writing, the term "writer’s identity" does not have a clear, agreed-upon definition. This study therefore investigates the use of "writer’s identity" i...

Title: Visualizing #BostonStrong: Commemorative Implications for a Rhetorical Epithet of Civic Identity
Author: Crawford, Emily
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Rhetoric
Description: Following a tragic event such as a mass shooting, terrorist attack or natural disaster in the United States, it has become a ritual for audiences to establish particular hashtags pertaining to these events. Subsequent to the Boston Marathon bombin...

Title: us - AM to DM and the Reimagining of Morning Television
Author: Melendez, Tanya
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Rhetoric
Description: In September of 2017, BuzzFeed News launched a morning television show that airs live on Twitter five days a week. AM to DM represents one of the first disruptions of a 60-year-old genre with an emphasis on audience participation, an editorialized...

Title: Fans Like Us: Anti-shipping, Othering, and the Reauthoring of Fandom
Author: Bradburn, Madison
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric, English language--Composition
Description: The following thesis focuses on Anti- and Pro-shipping debates, their rhetorical behaviors, and their impacts on fandom spaces. These debates center around "shipping," the act of romantically pairing characters from media in fan productions such a...