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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"Language, Rhetoric and Composition"”.
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Writing centers professionalize: Visions and versions of legitimacy
… of professionalization for writing centers and presents an alternative way to approach what I believe is an inevitable process. Toward that end, my project is to examine how the discourse surrounding the professionalization of writing centers constructs scholars, tutors, teachers, and …
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Making change: The role of rhetoric in the politicization of consumption
… save rainforests, defend reproductive freedom and house the homeless while you save money on long distance calls"). This claim is based on the company's philanthropic and political practices, such as donating 1% of its long distance revenue to "progressive" nonprofit organizations, and alerting …
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Rhetorical Labor: Writing, Childbirth, and the Internet
… what we know, or think we know, is informed by and/or informs everyday rhetorics. The project, broadly, is about how people create, manage and resist epistemologies.
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Frontier Pedagogies: The Rhetorics of Expansion and Reform in Antebellum America
… antebellum citizenship, cultural education, and rhetorical invention through the historical lens of ""the frontier."" The antebellum frontier is uniquely suited for rhetorical criticism because it was a process of both deeply symbolic national imagining and brute material development; it …
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Muckraking Exposes and the Shaping of Progressive Era Political Culture
This study is an attempt to redress a lacuna in rhetorical scholarship and the unjustified reign of a simplistic analysis in historical scholarship by examining the character of progressive era political culture through a close analysis of muckraking texts. While rhetoricians have not examined the …
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The Communication of Beliefs: An Inquiry Into the Rhetoric of Collective Identity and the Origins and Uses of Normative Logic
… ""social psychology,"" ""social semiotics,"" and ""historiography""---wherein the normative dimension of human affairs has become a topic of special interest. Next the inquiry looks into the origins of our peculiarly ""Western"" forms of normative logic; and indeed, we find that the ancient …
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Shifts, Voices and Positionings in Political Discourse: A Comparative Analysis of Creating Allies and Enemies Through Linguistic Choices
… ways in which politicians display their ideology and (ab)use power to manipulate audiences through the political message.
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"""I'm Not Dead Yet"": Gay Male Narratives in the Age of AIDS"
… by narrowing the focus to the years between and including 1985 to 1994, a seemingly arbitrary decision, though one which, upon reflection, makes sense to me. Few works existed prior to 1985 on the topic of AIDS and thus earlier works were less available and less significant in terms of …
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Charles Sanders Peirce, the Extraordinary Moment, and Musical Affect
C. S. Peirce's theories of semiotics and continuity provide the basis for an answer as to how and why we perceive 'new' things, especially with regard to artistic discourse. By breaking down so-called 'extraordinary' moments into various categories of signs, and by considering the overlapping …
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"Using Communication Strategies to Design Food Marketing Strategies: The ""Pork Fat"" Rumor in Indonesia"
… to the experimenters who denied the rumor, and different content of messages used in the refutation strategies."
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Some Interactions of Grammar and Pragmatics in Negation in Korean
It is shown that in order to adequately describe the facts of negation in Korean, the pragmatics must be considered along with the grammar.
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Standing at the End of a Road: Death and the Construction of Cyborg Relationships
… my work on these online sites of illness, death, and mourning has often been emotionally difficult, I believe these types of web spaces are particularly valuable because they encourage us to consider the real-world context of online interactions. Studies of online communities have previously …
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Medicalized Illiteracies: Learning Disabilities, Contentious Histories, and Writing Studies
… has played a formative role in the creation and maintenance of the learning disabilities label. The condition is contingent upon an expected connection between intelligence and literacy, both understood to be stable, quantifiable capacities. This contingency fuels debate as to the nature and …
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Producing Good Citizens: Literacy and Citizenship Training in Anxious Times
… literacy, I investigate how citizenship and literacy have been mutually but often contradictorily implicated for often disenfranchised individuals. Literacy became a way to measure the potential productivity of industrial workers, many of them immigrants, during a period that established …
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Out of the Shadows: Rethinking Response Through the Instructor -Led Peer Conference
"This dissertation is a historical, theoretical, and empirical study of the practices of responding to student writing in composition classrooms. It argues that the primary value of response lies not in the evaluation or correction of student texts, but instead in the opportunities it presents for …
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Constitutive Visions: Indigeneity, Visual Culture, and the Rhetorics of Ecuadorian National Identity
… century. The chapter uses petitions, ""customs and habits"" paintings, newspaper articles, and photographs to argue that indigeneity has served as an embodiable topos for establishing legitimacy and authenticity in political contexts. It traces how non-indigenous actors have taken on a performed …
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"""That Is What I Said to Him"": American Women's Narratives About Indians, 1879-1934"
… the first extended discussion of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century American women who wrote and told stories about Native Americans. When not ignored altogether, these women--white and indigenous--are usually seen as reinforcing vanishing-race ideologies. I argue, however, that they …
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Toward a Writing Theory of Transition
… spiral metaphor to explore writing experiences and begins to formulate a wider conception of writing transitions by following three experienced writers as they move across settings. Based on their texts, the stories of their experiences, and the stories of others involved in their writing tasks, …
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"The Art of the Scop: Traditional Poetics in the Old English ""Genesis A"""
"Chapter Four, ""Traditional Rhetoric: Ring Structure,"" examines another aspect of traditional rhetoric, ring structure. Ring structure in Genesis A is used to provide emphasis and to lend coherence to the narrative, and especially to signal formality in speeches."
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