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  • 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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    Year Composition Classroom Abstract approved: _____________________________________ Tim

  • 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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    : ______________________________________________________ Tim Jensen Close reading has long been favored as an interpretative framework within those

  • '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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    College Composition’ Abstract approved: Tim T. Jensen This thesis explores the evolving purposes for

  • Furthering Rhetorical Genre Studies Within the Context of Identity and Transfer in First Year Composition

    Creator:
    Alfaqih, Jessica
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    Within composition studies, rhetorical genre studies (RGS) and labor-based grading (LBG) are engaged in similar projects that consider students not only as individuals but also as always part of a community; as such, both have worked to understand how students learn, how students value themselves and their work, and how...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Tim Jensen Within composition studies, rhetorical genre studies (RGS) and labor-based grading

  • (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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    : _____________________________________________________ Tim Jensen Contrasting the productive ground gained in ecological rhetorical theory

  • Steps and Strikes

    Creator:
    Scopatz, Shane
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    Steps and Stikes is an Environmental Arts and Humanities capstone thesis project taking the shape of an art film. The video layers contemporary dance with natural and industrial imagery on a foundation of personal narrative. It engages with contemporary environmental discourse as a choreographed essay, questioning why the environmental movement...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Tim Jensen Steps and Stikes is an Environmental Arts and Humanities capstone thesis project

  • 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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    Dr. Tim Jensen My thesis consists of two articles that address the ways in which rhetoric

  • Failure as a Rhetorical Force in First-Year Composition

    Creator:
    Du Bose, Hannah L.
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    Recognized as a site of risk, innovation, and inspiration, failure is a growing area of multidisciplinary inquiry. My thesis draws attention specifically to the way composition studies approaches failure in order to ask: how can we implement failure pedagogies safely, and how do rhetorics of failure move toward social justice...
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    : _____________________________________________________ Tim Jensen Recognized as a site of risk, innovation, and inspiration, failure is a

  • Extending and Visualizing Authorship in Comics Studies

    Creator:
    Brown, Nicholas A.
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    This thesis complicates the traditional associations between authorship and alphabetic composition within the comics medium and examines how the contributions of line artists and writers differ and may alter an audience's perceptions of the medium. As a fundamentally multimodal and collaborative work, the popular superhero comic muddies authorial claims and...
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    : Tim T. Jensen Ehren H. Pflugfelder This thesis complicates the traditional associations between

  • A second look at Alexander Pope and Newtonian science

    Creator:
    Reid, Tim S.
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    "This Long Disease, My Life": Alexander Pope and the Sciences by Marjorie Nicolson and G.S. Rousseau has been the standard work on Alexander Pope and Newtonian science ever since it was published in 1968. Literary scholars and biographers continue to be swayed by its influence. Unfortunately, the work they so...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Tim S. Reid for the degree of