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The Trial of Alice Clifton: Judicial Catharsis in Institutional Bias
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
This is a critical introduction and rhetorical analysis of a moment of criminal crisis at a time of profound institutional bias: the 1787 infanticide trial of a young Philadelphia slave and rape victim named Alice Clifton. ...
Coercively Compromised Authorships: Risk Factors in Spaces of Writing Practice
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
This dissertation project explores the potential for coercive interactions to shape
collaboratively authored, singularly credited textual productions. Building on the work of
Composition Studies, which reflects a sustained ...
First-Generation Pedagogy: A Case Study of First-Generation College Students in First-Year Writing
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
The purpose of this research was to examine the motivations and attitudes first-generation college students held toward classroom interventions and written assignments. This classroom research took place during one semester ...
‘Dear Children, Jacob and Amalie’: A Rhetorical Analysis of Letters from Russia to a Volga German Migrant Couple in the American Midwest
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
This dissertation analyzes a collection of personal letters sent to German-speaking migrants from Russia in the American Midwest by their relatives in southern Russia. The letters can be divided into two groups: the first ...
Women and the Environment of the Global South: Toward a Postcolonial Ecofeminism
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
In this study I claim that mainstream ecofeminism is inadequate to translate the experiences of the women of the Third World and propose postcolonial ecofeminism. The study focuses on the ecofeminist assumption of women’s ...
Reclaiming the Place of Translation in English Composition and Technical Communication: Toward Hospitable Writing
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
The defining characteristic of a pedagogy informed by philosophical cosmopolitanism is
a focus on the dialogic imagination: the coexistence of rival ways of life in the individual
experience which incites us to interrogate ...
Sustaining Conversations for Rural North Dakota Language Arts Teachers
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
This qualitative study explores the role conversation plays in sustaining rural North Dakota Language Arts teachers. This study examines the questions: What conversations are sustained rural North Dakota Language Arts ...
Understanding the Availability of E-Books for NDSU English Classes and English/English Education Majors’ Perceptions of E-Books
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
While research on college students and their use of e-books has emerged, there have not been studies done on the use of e-books by English and English majors specifically. This research aims to fill that gap. An analysis ...
Catering to our Aging Population: Increasing the Overall Usability of Financial Information through Personalization
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Older adults are increasing in numbers nationwide at a higher rate than any other age group because of longer life expectancies. As a result, older populations, or those individuals aged 65 and above, have to make increasingly ...
(Re)Writing Sexual Consent: Affirmative Consent Culture in Sexual Misconduct Policies of Higher Education Institutions
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
This study primarily seeks to determine what policy language best reflects affirmative consent culture in the sexual misconduct policies of higher education institutions. It considers such policies to be important and ...