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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"public writing"”.
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“I’ll find a way to make my voice heard:” Transformational literacies of Latinx students
… literacies and language remain understudied in writing studies. Through critical race theory and a combination of archival and ethnographic methods, this dissertation contributes to our understandings of how Latinx students navigate higher education and how these experiences intersect with their …
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(Re)Building Cultural, Community, and Academic Identity: Freshman Composition After Katrina
… between place, identity, and the act of writing, maintaining, as theorist Nedra Reynolds states, that “where writing instruction takes place has everything to do with how†(20). Considering the social, political, and cultural contexts of a post-Katrina Southeastern Louisiana, …
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The Social Role of Popularized Science
… to interest and partially educate the lay public in scientific principals and practices. I will identify and analyze the narrative, rhetorical features of two popular science texts: Douglas Adams' Last Chance to See and Alan Lightman's Einstein's Dreams. These texts are selected based on a …
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A critical analysis of the feminist theology of Virginia Ramey Mollenkott
… Ramey Mollenkott throughout the course of her public writing career and ministry. The paper identifies the major ideological development of Mollenkott during her adult life. It is divided into three major sections: The reason for this study, a descriptive analysis of her books and theology, and …
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The Rhetorical Ecology of an Urban Wetland Complex
… site (the Meadowlands), highlighting the role of public and professional texts as agents of both knowledge production and landscape change. To that end, I offer two analyses in this dissertation. The first is a genre analysis of technical descriptions derived from a reading of a large collection …
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Specialized Online Publics and Rhetorical Ecologies: A Study of Civic Engagement in Natural Resource Management
This dissertation examines the public writing and civic engagement of an online community of a sportsmen forum, as the writing and engagement relate to natural resources management. Drawing from theories of public discourse and public rhetoric, this dissertation argues the sportsmen forum …
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These Things Will Change: Public Revision as a Feminist Rhetorical Strategy in Taylor Swift's Re-Recorded Albums
Writing is rewriting; revision is crucial to the process, for all writers. However, all too often, revision is shrouded in secrecy, shame, and silence. What’s more, research on revision remains largely stagnant. As a result, we stymie writers’ growth and effectiveness, endangering the voices of …
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In the ruins of zine pedagogy: a narrative study of teaching with zines
… The project is situated within theories of the public sphere, scholarship on teaching public writing, and existing work on zine pedagogy. Adopting a narrative research design, I collected data in the form of written and telephone interviews with seven teacher/zinesters, their class materials …
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Physical conclusions? An exploration of [dis]continuities in Thomas Vaughan’s [Al]Chemical tracts.
… private and unpublished memoranda.Vaughan’s writing is delineated through an examination o f its relationship to other ‘chymical’ literature. In particular Vaughan’s literary methodology is contrasted with that o f the plagiarist John Heydon ( fl. 1667). Analysis of Heydon’s writing is …