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  • Radical centrism : The Bakatcha Bandit, Emook, and the hope of the riparian

    Creator:
    Scruton, Evan
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    In 1965 Malcolm X said that we are living in a time of extremism. People in power have misused it now there has to be a change, and a better world has to be built, and the only way it's going to be built is with extreme methods. And I,...
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    Cassady at the wheel and a vat of psychedelic- laced juice on-board. While "The Day After Superman Died

  • Toward More Intersectional, Coalitional Rhetoric: Working at the Intersections of Indigenous, Racial Justice, and Environmental Activism

    Creator:
    Metildi, Nicole
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    My thesis consists of two articles that address the ways in which rhetoric emerges from coalitions with unequal power dynamics within the environmental movement. The introduction provides context to help situate my articles within the current environmental movement. In my first article, “Constellating a More Intersectional, Coalitional Rhetoric: Lessons from...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Nicole Metildi for

  • Public Proof : Science Communication, Weak Theory, and the Nonrational

    Creator:
    Snyder, Wesley M.
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    A 2014 Pew Research poll revealed large gaps between public opinion and scientific opinion over environmental and biomedical issues (Funk and Rainie). Similarly, a number of recent popular books have described a growing public mistrust in scientific expertise (Mooney; Storr; Specter). Why is it, then, that so much of the...
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    examine this research question in two ways: first from the perspective of the disciplines of Science

  • Omen of Mere Event : Vignettes in a Post-Wilderness Landscape

    Creator:
    Schultz, Aaron A.
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    This thesis uses a series of non-fiction vignettes to explore objects, agencies, and networks, applying theories of rhetoric and composition directly to experience and vise versa. Focusing on agency--as understood through sociology's actor-networks, post- humanism’s Object Orientated Ontology, and Ecocriticism's ecological approach--I look at events, landscapes, and partnerships that have...
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    OF THE THESIS OF Aaron A. Schultz for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on April

  • Re-viewing the canon : using film and critical pedagogy in the standards-based classroom

    Creator:
    Divelbiss, John D.
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    This thesis analyzes the efficacy of emancipatory (critical) pedagogical practices in an educational climate of standards-based reform. Using two films noir of the blacklist era--Body and Soul and Crossfire--as the core texts of a unit in a secondary school curriculum, I argue that an emphasis on student agency and a...
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    7 multiplicities of documents, research, and critiquing. The Common Core “mission statement

  • Toward Critical Consciousness : Rhetorical Grammar as Anti-Racist Praxis in the First Year Composition Classroom

    Creator:
    Koneval, Addison B.
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    While grammar is a core aspect of written and oral communication, many find grammar instruction equally frustrating and boring, and as such, grammar receives very little formal attention in the university system (Hoffman). My thesis draws attention to this overlooked, and yet central component of composition, and asks a radical...
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    Communication (CCCC) Board began intense discussion regarding the safety of constituents and participants of

  • Fostering a Multidimensional, Metacognitive Landscape Through Rhetorical Narrative Analysis

    Creator:
    Breeden, Regan
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    Close reading has long been favored as an interpretative framework within those classrooms commonly united under the umbrella of English studies. This thesis explores the role of a particular brand of close reading—one often assessed through text-dependent questions—and critiques its centrality within assessment and curriculum materials for the AP Program...
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    research links the close reading of complex text […] to significant gains in reading proficiency and

  • 'Reclaiming Voice : Enacting Social Discourse Communities in Belizean First-Year College Composition'

    Creator:
    Habet, André Antonio
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    This thesis explores the evolving purposes for the teaching of first-year English composition in Belize. Starting from an analysis of the underlying cultural assumptions of U.S. composition pedagogies, this thesis argues that American composition pedagogies need to be rethought when applied in a Belizean context to fulfill the country's unique...
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    community from Canada that has been one of the main driving forces behind the country’s small dairy and

  • (Com)Posing Rhetorical Ecology: Cultivating Phronesis via Permacultural Praxis

    Creator:
    Ferris, Ian
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    Contrasting the productive ground gained in ecological rhetorical theory through embedded fieldwork, composition as a discipline has yet to enact such transformative engagements with ecology. In this thesis, I put forward a praxis for ecological rhetoric and composition through permaculture design, utilizing the design framework’s system of ethics and principles...
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    Journal of Sociology of Education that it is “significant (and indicative of the values that our society