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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Rhetoric--Research"”.
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Argumentation pragmatics, text analysis, and contrastive rhetoric
The contrastive rhetoric hypothesis (Kaplan, 1966) predicts that language users across cultures will vary in the means they use to construct coherent discourse. The problem for contrastive rhetoric research is to develop a method for reliably describing this variation. To this end, a number of …
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Seeing a Whole Life: Genre and Identity in Occupational Therapy
A significant body of writing and rhetoric research focuses on the literate practices that reflect or construct the professional self, particularly in disciplines that rely heavily on the use of forms to categorize or identify customers, clients, or patients. Many of these studies examine the …
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Public Memory: How Vietnam Veterans are using Technology to Make Private Memory Public
… their country in a time of war or conflict. My research is based on the rhetorical writings of recognized scholars, a knowledge base grounded in the historical tradition of rhetoric. Research is also included from interviews and correspondence with many Vietnam veterans, the writings of …
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Embodied rhetoric in scenes of production : the case of the coffeehouse
Embodied Rhetoric in Scenes of Production: The Case of the Coffeehouse develops and enacts a framework for conceptualizing and studying rhetoric and writing practice. This framework develops insights of theorists like Michel De Certeau, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Bruno Latour who call for attention to …
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A contextual and transdisciplinary analysis of pedagogic, operational and administrative frameworks of a Writing Centre : the case of the Durban University of Technology (DUT) Writing Centre (WrC)
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy: Public Management, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2017.