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Effectiveness of Computerized Communication Treatment for Neurologically Impaired Adults

Creator:: Krivak, Brenda M.
Abstract:: The single subject alternating treatment design experiment reported here compared the effectiveness of pencil-and-paper versus computerized communication treatment for neurologically impaired adults. Five stroke patients receiving outpatient speech/language treatment (ages 51-72) served as subjects. One subject completed the experiment as designed and clearly supported the hypothesis that a higher number...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Beauty and the Beast: The Rhetorical Construction of the Female in Mixed Martial Arts

Creator:: Thornburg, Kori A.
Abstract:: More women compete in sports currently than ever before. However, the historical tensions which relate to their participation--as athletes and as females--remain. Mixed martial arts (MMA) has proven to be the most visible introduction of females into sports that have traditionally been considered exclusively for men. Gina Carano and Cristiane...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ) Style ……………………………………………. 45 Conclusions ……………………………………. 53 CHAPTER V

The beat generation : a rhetoric of negation

Creator:: Mackaman, Julie Irene
Abstract:: The Beat Generation was an American counter-culture movement in the 1950's. Comprised of nomadic writers, poets, actors, musicians, and artists, the Beat movement represented no systematic philosophy and its most distinguishing characteristic was its apolitical disengagement from society. The Beats offered no substantive alternatives to the existing social order, but...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: III. Crisis: The Critics Fight Back 42 IV. Assimilation: Time Catches Up 53 V. Epilogue: The Voice

RTFM NOOb: Criticizing Internet Based Instructional Documents as a Rhetorical Genre

Creator:: Carlson, Gordon S. III
Abstract:: The purpose of this thesis is to aid in qualitative improvements to technical support documents on the Internet. By using a generic criticism this analysis will make substantive suggestions towards the improvement of this type of document by engaging the rhetoric employed by their authors. It will discuss the history...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , and provide emphatic support of the written text (Lannon 257) Shortland and Gregory point out that

Off-shore oil exploration in the Arctic Ocean a comparative analysis of newspaper information and public attitude

Creator:: Tombropoulos, Charles B.
Abstract:: This research questions the effectiveness of newspapers as a vehicle of environmental information by determining whether the public attitude in Alaska towards off-shore oil exploration was consistent with that expressed in the local newspapers. All newspaper articles about off-shore oil exploration published in Alaska between 1980 and May 1987 were...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , University of Manitoba Press, 1972 Charnley, Mitchell V., "Preliminary Notes on a Study of Newspaper

An evaluation of using the spiral model to teach media at Oregon State University

Creator:: Piepmeier, Karen Swanson
Abstract:: A decade after the School of Education at Oregon State University adopted a spiral model of curriculum for teacher education, a study was conducted to determine if Instructional Media, one thread of that model, was spiralled in the curriculum. A survey was conducted of graduating seniors, using a questionnaire to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Community mediation and culture : a study of Oregon programs

Creator:: Harrison, Janet E.
Abstract:: This descriptive research project is a survey and analysis of nineteen community mediation programs in the State of Oregon. These programs were evaluated to determine their responsiveness to issues of culture and ethnicity. Data was gathered by face-to-face and telephone interviews with community program staff members and administrators. Information was...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Promoting progress : a rhetorical analysis of college and university sexual harassment codes

Creator:: Porrovecchio, Mark J.
Abstract:: This thesis is a rhetorical analysis of sexual harassment codes on college and university campuses. The situational model proposed by Lloyd Bitzer is used to examine representative artifacts from Rice University in Houston, Texas, and Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, so as to determine whether they operate as "fitting"...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Campus 56 Conclusion 63 V. The Rhetorical Audience 65 The Audiences as Public 66 The Publics as

Fish Tales: Salmon Stories, 1945-1980

Creator:: Finley, Carmel
Abstract:: Approximately $1 billion a year is spent on salmon in the Pacific Northwest. Spending has escalated, yet the number of wild runs placed under the protection of the Endangered Species Act has increased, creating social and political controversy. For more than 100 years, salmon management in the Pacific Northwest has...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Investigating the Structural Barriers to Equal Education in Oregon - How Laws, Rhetoric & Values Translate into Practice

Creator:: Ludvik, Tracey L.
Abstract:: This study helps to answer the broader question of why Latino students across the U.S. persistently drop out of school at the highest rates compared to students of other racial groups by focusing on the institutional workings of the various levels of the Oregon school system. Latino students have the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (Feagin and Feagin 1993). The case is now well known as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

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Effectiveness of Computerized Communication Treatment for Neurologically Impaired Adults

Beauty and the Beast: The Rhetorical Construction of the Female in Mixed Martial Arts

The beat generation : a rhetoric of negation

RTFM NOOb: Criticizing Internet Based Instructional Documents as a Rhetorical Genre

Off-shore oil exploration in the Arctic Ocean a comparative analysis of newspaper information and public attitude

An evaluation of using the spiral model to teach media at Oregon State University

Community mediation and culture : a study of Oregon programs

Promoting progress : a rhetorical analysis of college and university sexual harassment codes

Fish Tales: Salmon Stories, 1945-1980

Investigating the Structural Barriers to Equal Education in Oregon - How Laws, Rhetoric & Values Translate into Practice

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