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Use of Impression Management Strategies in Response to a Feedback Intervention
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Providing performance feedback in a way that leads to improved performance is an integral aspect to the success of an organization. Past research shows the feedback does not always improve employee performance. Characteristics ...
It's Easy Until It's Not: Elements Contributing to Rural Teachers' Technology Use
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Technology has become a prominent aspect of K12 education. Current research on technology integration focuses on the initiatives and trends available to teachers as well as the barriers preventing integration. Schools face ...
Romantic Relationships and Social Media Use: The Emergence and Management of Relational Dialectics
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
This study implements Baxter’s (1988) relational dialectic theory to determine how
relational dialectics emerge and are managed when people in romantic relationships use social
media. Eighteen participants who were in ...
Are Public American High Schools Void of Values? The Teacher Perspective of Moral Education in Public School
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
The American public school system's immense influence on culture and politics makes its critical inquiry vital for social awareness and prosperity. There is a wide body of literature that speculates on the presence of moral ...
Traits and Behaviors: Connecting in the Classroom
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Immediacy is a topic that has been frequently explored in communication and education research; however, it is not understood if perceptions of immediacy are related to certain behaviors or trait-based similarities between ...
Service Learning Assignments: The Interesect Between Assignment Framing, Student Motivation, and Perceived Relevance
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Although learning has traditionally happened within the four walls of a classroom, as service learning courses become more prevalent, instructors are challenging their students to take learning outside of the classroom and ...
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 ...
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 ...