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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Royster"”.
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Writing a measure of her life: the rhetoric of women's cookbooks
… the work of feminist scholars, Jaqueline Jones Royster and Gesa Kirsch, I argue that cookbooks from each of these categories function in different rhetorical ways for their authors. The cookbooks analyzed here evidence that women use "everyday" or "ordinary" writing to record history and memory, …
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Exploring methodologies in feminist rhetoric and education: using Kirsch and Royster's terms of engagement in the college classroom
… if the methodology proposed by Jacqueline Royster and Gesa Kirsch in their book Feminist Rhetorical Practices can be used to teach Feminist Rhetorical reading at the college level. In order to test and demonstrate the use of the methodology, a study was conducted in which students learned …
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What It Means to Be a Man: Masculinity, Sexual Risk-Taking, and HIV Testing Behavior among Heterosexual African American Males
… Mohottige, Agyemang, & Corbie-Smith, 2010; Royster, Richmond, Eng, & Margolis, 2006). One form of masculinity, hypermasculinity is related to sexual risk-taking behaviors, especially among young African American males. The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the relationship …
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Specializing in the wholly impossible: A rhetorical analysis of phronesis and kairos in the writings of Nannie Helen Burroughs
… by Shirley Wilson Logan and Jacqueline Jones Royster. Exploring the rhetorics employed by African American women adds to our understanding of the curious trajectory of the practical uses and useful practices of Burroughs's writings and how they inform rhetorical pedagogies in Western and …
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Sociocultural studies of biomedicine and healthcare in everyday literate lifeworlds
… feminist research methodologies (Kirsch, Royster), and medical rhetoric (Scott, Segal), I conclude that my participants chain together texts, bodies, people, and practices of their everyday lives in order to understand their own healthcare or to provide effective treatment to their …
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The development of a SPICE2 model for transient simulation of the Schottky Transistor
In order to simulate the Schottky Transistor and its effect on circuit applications, a computer model has been developed for the device. The focus of this research is the development of such a model for SPICE2 (a circuit simulation computer program) using a new method for model construction. This …
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A Literacy Narrative of a Female Saudi English Teacher and A Qualitative Case Study: 12 Multilingual Writers Identify Challenges and Benefits of Daily Writing in a College Composition Class
… literacy narrative and practices what Kirsch and Royster call “strategic contemplation” about the material conditions of her mother’s life leaving school at 12 to marry and to raise 12 children. Her mother’s illiteracy is not the focus, however. Rather it is her mother’s strengths and her …
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The Doll Project As A Liberatory Art Intervention For Conscious Raising And Trauma Relief In A Chicago Marked By Violence
<p>Abstract</p> <p>This community/arts based participatory research project encompassed communal art making practices (art as therapy) to build community, heal and resist systemic oppression and community violence; as well as promote self-care, empowerment, and a sense of purpose. Participants …
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Reconfiguring racial uplift: church-sponsored African American rhetorical work in the early twentieth century
… struggles, and of what Jacqueline Jones Royster (2000) has called situated ethos—a sense of racial place, tensions, and duties (pp. 64-65). Using archival findings from university, public, and private black repositories in town, and oral histories that I collected from senior Bethel …
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The curriculum of coming out: queer pedagogies, literacies, and rhetorics in LGBTQ lives
… and methods (e.g., Kirsch, Kirsch and Royster) that ground the two case studies. I elaborate on the local particulars for each site of research, both located in “Centerville,” USA, a mid-size Midwestern town with a major research university, surrounded by farming communities. The first …