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Crisis at the Finish Line: A Thematic Analysis of Instructing Information via Twitter
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This study expands current crisis communication research by exploring the communication of instructing information via Twitter. Drawing from the internalization, explanation, and action components of Sellnow & Sellnow's ...
Comparative Advertising: A Factual Claim or an Evaluative Claim
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Comparative advertising is widely used in the U.S and much remains to be learnt about when comparative advertising is used with the two forms of verbal claim; factual and evaluative claim. An experimental design with the ...
A Rhetorical/Interpretive Analysis of Edward R. Murrow's Criticism of Broadcast Journalism: Implications for Broadcast Journalism Educators
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
Corporate influence has been an ongoing concern for working journalists. Even in the early days of television, Edward R. Murrow saw a bleak future for society if broadcasters succumbed to corporate greed and failed in their ...
Newspapers as a Form of Settler Colonialism: An Examination of the Dakota Access Pipeline Protest and American Indian Representation in Indigenous, State, and National News
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Settler colonial history underlies much of contemporary industry, including the extraction and transportation of crude oil. It presents itself in a variety of contexts; however, this disquisition applies a traditional ...
Intercultural Communication Competence Theory: Integrating Academic and Practical Perspectives
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
Over the past five decades, scholars of intercultural communication have attempted to define, describe, and otherwise operationalize the concept of competency in an intercultural interaction. This study constructed a ...
Navigating the Turbulent Dual Roles of Parent/Coach
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This study explores the nature of the communication between parent and child as the context changes to place them into the roles of coach and member of the team. Previous studies of parents coaching their own children are ...
Rhetorical Agency in the Bhagavad Gita
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This M.A. thesis presents a rhetorical analysis of the Indian philosophical and religious text, The Bhagavad Gita. Utilizing Kenneth Burke's Pentad of act, scene, agent, agency and purpose as a primary interpretive lens ...
Finding the Great Plains People in the “Buffalo Commons” Proposal
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
This thesis argues that Frank and Deborah Popper’s 1987 “Buffalo Commons” proposal urged an exchange of the “plow” for the “buffalo” as the dominant metaphor of Great Plains life. A close textual analysis of the proposal ...
Learning to Speak Effectively in Business Settings: The Importance of Delivery
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This project explores the integral role of delivery in public speaking and recommends a training curriculum in vocalics and kinesics in order to become an effective public speaker. Business professionals are the key ...
Image is Everything: Information-Seeking of College Students and the Effectiveness of Public Relations Efforts
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Organizations are continually searching for the most effective ways to distribute information and gain referrals from consumers. This study sought to find out how consumers seek information about an organization and how ...