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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"rhetorical situation"”.
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Strengthen What Remains: The Rhetorical Situation of James Montgomery Boice
… and writing, which was affected by this rhetorical situation. Chapter 1 states the thesis, which attempts to answer two major questions that arise from this era of Boice’s ministry: Why remain in a liberal denomination when conservative options were available? Why does the content of …
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COMPULSORY ABLEISM IN THE RHETORICAL SITUATION: THE IMPERFECTION OF EXIGENCY IN THE CASE AGAINST PERFECTION
… category of the normate. Lloyd Bitzer’s “The Rhetorical Situation” participates in constructing compulsory able-bodiedness. The dyadic exchange Bitzer and Vatz inaugurate provides a particularly useful canvas for the conversation of disability and rhetoric with attention given to situatedness …
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Women's Campaign Rhetoric: A Case Study of the 1998 Northup Congressional Campaign
… study answers four research questions: 1. What rhetorical strategies does Northup employ to build an image in her televised campaign spot ads, 2. Do these strategies fulfill the six dimensions employed by this thesis to fulfill the voter's image prototype of a candidate, 3. Do Northup's …
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Rhetorical Byron: An interpretation of his historical tragedies
… works of fiction, but they may also be viewed as rhetorical discourses because they can be seen as direct responses to the complex social and political issues emerging from both the Industrial and French Revolutions. This claim was demonstrated by using a contemporary concept of rhetoric, Lloyd …
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Rhetoric, Disability, and Prenatal Testing: Down Syndrome as an Object of Discourse
This project considers how disability studies and rhetorical studies—specifically the area of medical rhetoric—might usefully inform one another. In particular, this project examines prenatal testing for Down syndrome as a rhetorical situation that initiates and circulates many different discourses …
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Re-Mediating Rhetoric and Composition: An Activity-Based Multimodal Framework for Composing
… processes so much as it is about re-assessing a rhetorical situation, and potentials for negotiating meaning given the resources one has to hand, I conclude by imagining how a greater access to technological resources might impact the development of an activity-based multimodal framework for …
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"Who is 'you'?": teaching authentic approaches to audience and genre in first-year composition
… What I came to realize was how often their rhetorical situation changed due to social media and other forms of instant communication. If and when the digital language that forms through social media interferes with the development of student identity and authorial agency as a result of a …
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Blurring the Lines Between Instructor-Led and Online Learning: an Evaluation of an Online Composition Curriculum on the Bleeding Edge
… one from the other, thereby altering our rhetorical situation as instructors. Instructors can no longer deny the presence of technology in the contemporary classroom, much less in the contemporary composition classroom. This case study serves as a post-modern analysis of the technology …
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Bowers v. Lawrence: the Narratives of the Supreme Court
… a narrative approach informed by theories on the rhetorical situation. The Bowers majority opinion is framed around themes of history, morality and a reductionist understanding of sexual orientation which allows the Court to endorse sodomy laws. In Lawrence v. Texas a competing narrative was …
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Calling All Cast Members: Elevating Material Objects and Ambient Environments to Non-Human Rhetorical Actors in Arden of Faversham
… can be elevated to non-human actors in a play’s rhetorical situation. Arden of Faversham engages heavily with the material world at every level of the play, making it a prime candidate for such an analysis. The material objects, ambient environments, and geographical places in Arden of Faversham …
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Raising Arizona: a visual rhetorical analysis of Kyrsten Sinema's and Martha McSally's 2018 campaign announcement videos
… understand how the audience demographics and the rhetorical situation faced by each candidate affected the choice of visual components for the persuasion of potential voters. The study concludes that the visual messages were chosen primarily to appeal to each candidate’s supporting viewers. …
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Colin Powell's 2000 keynote address: Compassionate conservatism in an age of cynicism
Colin Powell faced significant rhetorical challenges when he delivered his keynote address at the 2000 Republican National Convention, including the existing political atmosphere and public sentiment, the political implications of a Republican victory, the influence of technology on campaign …
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Sensing the Vexation: an Embodied Reading of the Book of Job
… I argue that the Book of Job constructs a rhetorical situation that positions the reader into a dialogical encounter with Job’s suffering body and the reader’s own embodied experience. Challenging foundational assumptions of biblical criticism, such as the dualisms of subject/object, …
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Praise and Blame: The Rhetorical Impact of Nineteenth-Century Conduct Manuals
… this researcher has identified the audience, the rhetorical situation, the exigence of that situation, and the use of <i>phronisis</i>, <i>areti</i>, and <i>euonia</i> by both authors. <br> Because the rhetoric of the conduct manual has not been discussed in current critical perspectives, this …
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Bits at the Backline: Comedy and Service-Learning in the Age of Pandemic
… project was a desire to bring composition and rhetorical scholarship outside of the university and into the rich artistic communities that exist within Omaha. It is at the crossing point between the institutional situation and the rhetorical situation that we engaged in this project, seeking to …
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Failure in the Writer's Journey: How New College Composition Instructors Experience Failure as Writers
… an experience emerging from tensions within the rhetorical situation of the thesis genre. The second writer, Alex, experienced self-doubt while navigating writing processes impacted by dyslexia but, through consistent practice and time management, learned a lesson in patience while navigating …
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From ‘sacred and undeniable’ to ‘self-evident’: a rhetorical analysis of Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence
… narrative themes that are not necessary to the rhetorical goal of justification. Of particular interest is Jefferson’s curious choice to base his argument for independence around the theme of enslavement. In order to uncover Jefferson’s possible reasons for doing so, the original draft of the …
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Magic Mulatto: Barack Obama's Biracial Body and Race Performance
… five police officers, Obama was presented with a rhetorical situation. Although he mostly avoided discussing race in his speeches, these racially charged incidents indicated an urgent need for him to address race and its impact in his eulogies for the dead. I analyze his eulogies for Clementa …
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National council of provinces rhetoric in overseeing the implementation of South Africa's national development plan
… perspective of South Africa's broader rhetorical situation, which manifest as exogenous shocks within the NCOP's operating environment. The overarching rhetorical situation is also postulated as one of the key determinants, impacting how the NCOP approaches and shapes its policy …
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"Teamsters are Beautiful" in the Twenty-first Century: The 'Sisterly' Organizing Rhetoric of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters
… rhetoric through analysis of the unique rhetorical situation at hand: the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) organizing female members by using rhetoric that invites women to identify themselves as Teamsters. This approach reveals how Teamsters organizing rhetoric relies on …
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