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Conjuring September 11, 2001 : Midwest Narratives in the Time of Death

Creator:: Josten, Jonathon M.
Abstract:: Over the past fourteen years since the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Americans of varied political persuasions have continually identified the day as a defining moment in the history of the nation, which caused a rupture in the cultural rhythm and psyche. This sensibility is...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Raymond J. Malewitz Over

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

Creator:: Koneval, Addison B.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: largely underrepresented grammar pedagogy: rhetorical grammar. I build off of Martha Kolln and Laura

Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

Creator:: Faris, Michael J.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of blogs in order to understand their potential use in the composition classroom with the goals of students writing for a public audience and developing their rhetorical and civic agency. I do so by exploring the potential for the blogosphere as a public...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: OF THE THESIS OF Michael J. Faris for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on

Translingual Science Communication: From Local Publications to the STEM Writing Classroom

Creator:: Werndli, Alexander J.
Abstract:: In order to assist WAC/WID practitioners and science writing faculty in incorporating translingual perspectives in disciplinary writing instruction, this study extends translingualism to language practice in the sciences by conducting a corpus study of Al-Awamia, a Moroccan agronomic journal. Mapping rhetorically significant changes across abstracts authored in English, French, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Alexander J. Werndli

From the encoded to the explicit in the 20th Century Irish romance : a study of Elizabeth Bowen's The last September and Edna O'Brien's The country girl's trilogy

Creator:: Breeden, Shobana L.
Abstract:: This thesis uses both feminist and new historic theories to argue that the women's romance novels The Last September (1929) by Elizabeth Bowen and The Country Girl's Trilogy (1960, 1962, 1964) by Edna O'Brien are tragic bildungsroman that subvert and challenge the Irish patriarchal marriage expectations of their respective time...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Mike of J. M. Synge's ''Playboy of the Western World.” O’Brien marks the literary fluctuation

High School Teachers’ Approaches toward Canonical Literature in Culturally Diverse Classrooms

Creator:: Ferguson, Carly R.
Abstract:: The purpose of this qualitative research study is to address the disconnect in high school classrooms between traditionally taught, canonical texts and the increasingly diverse population of students reading them through the framework of culturally responsive teaching (Ladson-Billings, 1994; Gay, 2010). Open-ended interviews were utilized to document the teaching practices...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: to as Sydney, Martha, Anne, John, and Mike throughout this study. They have been working as English

Playwriting and Authority : Collaborative Art and Feminine Production

Creator:: Brown, Colleen Karen
Abstract:: In that the concept of authority in terms of the creation of a literary work of art indicates a single creator or controller of a literary work, a delineated inscriber of the text who initiates the act of communication, writing for theatrical production can be described as a feminized art...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: he cries, as they cry, Evohe! On Bacchae! On Bacchae! -Euripides Dennis J M Brown I thank whatever

'That life of commonplace sacrifices' : representations of womanhood in Irish Catholic culture in James Joyce's Dubliners

Creator:: McGrory, Suzette L.
Abstract:: Traditional interpretations of James Joyce's Dubliners have often focused on the pervasive "paralysis" of the city, covered in the stories' range of "childhood, adolescence, maturity, and public life." However, these approaches have limited their focus on the women in the stories, often spotlighting the male characters--and the author--through a Freudian...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years. New York: Viking, 1958. For Martha Alice Orin Cottew, my

Schulenburg's Tsimshian Grammar

Creator:: Schulenburg, Albrecht Conon, Graf von der, 1865-1902 and Flaherty, Virginia C.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , " Ordinal Numbers, p. 881. J] # 9. Nothing about stress could be determined from the [[biblical]] text

"The life of things" : weird realisms in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads

Creator:: England, Saara Amelia
Abstract:: My thesis explores the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth as emblematic of Western philosophy and literature's longstanding preoccupation with the relationship between mind and matter. The poets' attempts to mediate their languages and sensibilities with "real nature" have a complicated legacy for today's readers, as Romantic literature...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Conjuring September 11, 2001 : Midwest Narratives in the Time of Death

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

Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

Translingual Science Communication: From Local Publications to the STEM Writing Classroom

From the encoded to the explicit in the 20th Century Irish romance : a study of Elizabeth Bowen's The last September and Edna O'Brien's The country girl's trilogy

High School Teachers’ Approaches toward Canonical Literature in Culturally Diverse Classrooms

Playwriting and Authority : Collaborative Art and Feminine Production

'That life of commonplace sacrifices' : representations of womanhood in Irish Catholic culture in James Joyce's Dubliners

Schulenburg's Tsimshian Grammar

"The life of things" : weird realisms in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads

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