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A Zoomable Assessment: Navigating the Ecologies of Writing Program Assessment
(North Dakota State University, 2022)This dissertation project explores the potential for using an inferential statistics test (t-tests) within an existing writing program assessment design. The purpose of using inferential statistics is to provide several ... -
Rhetorical Agency in Digital Storytelling: New Americans' Voices in the Chthulucene
(North Dakota State University, 2021)This study explores New American (refugees, immigrants, and asylum seekers) storytelling and agency through Donna Haraway’s concepts of the Chthulucene (pronounced thulusene), making kin, and staying with the trouble. ... -
A Rhetorical Approach to Human Remains Display in Museum Collections: An Ecotriangle of Publics, Objects, and Place
(North Dakota State University, 2021)This research approaches archaeological human remains in museum collections from a rhetorical perspective. Instead of joining the body of scholarship in museum studies that focuses on the process of curatorial interpretation, ... -
Advancing Gender Equity in STEM: Antenarratives and Feminist Leadership Practices in Policy Work
(North Dakota State University, 2020)While the field technical and professional communication (TPC) has long been concerned with workplace writing and policy writing, few studies have addressed the process of policy writing within an academic context. Using ... -
Toward a More Visually Literate Writing Classroom: An Analysis of Visual Communication Pedagogy and Practices
(North Dakota State University, 2019)“Toward a More Visually Literate Writing Classroom: An Analysis of Visual Communication Pedagogy and Practices” examines the teaching of visual communication in undergraduate professional and technical communication courses. ... -
Because Comics: Comics Literacy and Multimodal Pedagogy
(North Dakota State University, 2020)How and what we teach in the post-secondary English classroom has tremendous power, both regarding individual students and larger contexts in which they function. As post-secondary instructors, our pedagogical approach to ... -
Composing Comments for Online Students : A Study of Faculty Feedback on Writing in Multidisciplinary Contexts
(North Dakota State University, 2019)In this dissertation, I present findings from a qualitative research project designed to articulate practitioner-teachers’ beliefs about writing and their role in providing feedback on student writing in online courses. ... -
Social Dialect Features of Military Speech: A Sociolinguistic Study of Fargo Veterans
(North Dakota State University, 2020)This mixed-methods study examines the potential existence of a military dialect separate from regional or social dialects experienced by civilians. In particular, how similar is the military-related storytelling lexicon ... -
Crowdfunding for a Cause: Rhetorically Oriented Action Research with Christian Organizations
(North Dakota State University, 2018)When it comes to fundraising, many congregations and faith-related organizations struggle to keep up in the competitive charitable giving landscape. In recent years, online crowdfunding platforms (e.g. Kickstarter, GoFundMe, ... -
Natural Flavors: Rhetorical Stories of Food Labels
(North Dakota State University, 2017)What is in our food? What can food labels tell us about what is in our food? This dissertation applies rhetoric in the everyday human act of reading food labels and making decisions about what to eat based on those labels. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Energetic Space: The Affect of Literature in a Composition Classroom
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Rhetorical and critical theory have both prescribed and proscribed the way scholars view affect. With the exception of Reader Response Theory, literary and rhetorical theory tend to use a more long-term and permanent frame ... -
Writing (Dirty) New Media: Technorhetorical Opacity, Chimeras, and Dirty Ontology
(North Dakota State University, 2014)There is little doubt that emerging technologies are changing the way we act, interact, create, and consume. Yet despite increased access to these technologies, consumers of technology too seldom interrogate the politics, ... -
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. ... -
Carl Sagan's Cosmos: The Rhetorical Construction of Popular Science Mythology
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Using Carl Sagan's Cosmos as a case study, this dissertation explores the intersection of science with popular culture and builds a new framework for rhetorically analyzing popular science programming. The arguments and ... -
In this Together: Consubstantial Ethos in Writing in the Sciences Classrooms
(North Dakota State University, 2017)“In This Together: Consubstantial Ethos in Writing in the Sciences Classrooms” explores the ethos of instructors tasked with instructing STEM students how to write in the sciences. Building on the importance of ethos in ... -
‘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 ... -
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 ...
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