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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Rhetorical Action"”.
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The Monument of Memories as a place/space of multifarious rhetorical action
… of Memories as a place/space of multifarious rhetorical action.</p>
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Robust and Rhetorical Action: Explaining NATO's Long Commitment to the Bucharest Decision
… 2020. This research uses the concepts of robust action and rhetorical action to examine the two countries' growing partnerships with the alliance during this period. It defines robust action as a series of ambiguous moves to achieve tactical goals while maintaining long term flexibility. …
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Leadership as Rhetorical Action: The Power of the Powerless in Search of Its "People"
… approach. This thesis argues that shifting to a rhetorical perspective of leadership provides a more inclusive look at leadership as a process involving leader, follower, message, and context. When these components align a fuller understanding grounded in rhetorical action results. The four …
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Investigating the relationship between religious motives and rhetorical activism : an ethnographic study of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty.
… study investigates the religiously-motivated rhetorical action of the central office staff of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty (BCHP), a research-based nonprofit project of Baylor University. Knowing that the BCHP staff were at least religiously affiliated, I sought to understand …
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Rhythm, rhyme, and rhetoric in "12 years a day Django".
… be a potent source of subversive and vernacular rhetorical action, which is enabled in part by the racialization of flow. These arguments are cultivated through a contextual and textual analysis of 12 Years a Day Django. In developing these claims, this thesis seeks to demonstrate the utility of …
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Community and The Meal: A Rhetorical Investigation
… focus for numerous scholarly studies and their rhetorical significance. This dissertation will define how interpersonal communication and the enactment of the meal are rhetorical partners within a community. Cultural differences, communication style, and values affect one's perception of the …
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Towards public professionalism: A pentadic intervention in debate between the Common Core Standards Initiative (CCSI) and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
<p>In this project, I propose an alternate rhetorical strategy for literacy educators (K-16) seeking to enter debates over common standards for "college- and career-readiness" in literacy. I argue that the NCTE's current strategy fails to invite public participation in debate, and to remedy this …
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Food For Thought: Sustainability, Community-Engaged Teaching and Research, and Critical Food Literacy
… Through two case studies, I address how the interaction between students and local community practitioners of food activism raises the stakes for students' investigative research and deepens their understanding of food systems operating on local, regional, national and global levels. I attend to …
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SCHOOLED: Hiphop Composition at the Predominantly White University
… are core solutions to the paradoxical rhetorical action of hiphop in predominantly white spaces. This entails teaching students to reflectively identify and write about their own positionalities as well as asking teachers and administrators to recognize and explicitly acknowledge their …