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  • Interdisciplinary Collaboration: The Dental Hygienist’s Role

    Creator:
    Swanson Jaecks, Kelli M.
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    Recent scientific studies show strong correlations between oral and systemic disease, creating a crucial need for increased collaboration between the medical and dental professions. Interdisciplinary collaboration between medical and dental providers is emerging as a critical component to effective patient care. The role of the dental hygienist in interdisciplinary collaboration...
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    Masters Thesis
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    for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Speech Communication, Speech

  • Nonverbal communication and restaurant personnel

    Creator:
    Drago, Carleen
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    Servers in a small college town were asked to take part in an interview to assess perceptions of their use of nonverbal communication, how they believe nonverbal communication affects tipping behavior, and whether or not they received formal training in nonverbal communication tactics. The study also links nonverbal communication with...
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    OF Carleen Drago, for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Speech

  • Women and Workplace Competition : A Study of Horizontal Hostility

    Creator:
    Stone, Erin A.
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    Throughout society, many believe women are not succeeding professionally because of the institutional barriers created by men in the American workforce. However, women may be more competitive with other women than with men, especially when limited job positions are the goal. Competitiveness among women can be explained by a phenomenon...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Speech Communication, Speech Communication, and Women Studies presented on April 25, 2007. Title

  • Identifying Audiences: A Rhetorical Analysis of Mary Shaw’s Suffrage Plays

    Creator:
    Wright, Amanda R.
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    American women’s quest for equality came into focus in the early 1900s. Amidst the cultural and societal forces pushing for suffrage, some chose the mechanism of theater. This thesis is a work of rhetorical criticism. It applies Lloyd Bitzer’s situational approach to two suffrage theater artifacts: Mary Shaw's The Woman...
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    Studies in Speech Communication, Speech Communication, and Women Studies presented on May 2, 2008

  • Passage through The Vagina Monologues: A College Anti-Violence Rite

    Creator:
    Freehling-Burton, Kryn
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    Passage through The Vagina Monologues: A College Anti-Violence Rite examines the ways in which the audience at Oregon State University (OSU) responds to the annual production of the play in connection with the international college campaign to raise awareness about violence against women and to raise money for community organizations...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Kryn Freehling-Burton for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Women Studies

  • Whose community is it anyway? : the CDA and cultural conflicts over speech and pornography

    Creator:
    Christian, Mary Ann
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    The Communication Decency Act became law in 1996 and was immediately challenged on Constitutional grounds. It was subsequently declared unconstitutional based on the First Amendment guarantee of free speech. Using Fantasy Theme Analysis, an analysis of the dramatic elements of the key players was accomplished. The dramatic elements of Overall...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Speech Communication, Speech Communication, and Women

  • Using Racial Humor at Work: Promoting Positive Discussions on Race

    Creator:
    Foxworth, Teela
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    Employees from two different organizations, a public university and a hospital in Oregon, were asked to take part in an interview to assess their perceptions of how race is discussed in their workplace, if racial humor is used in their workplace, if this humor offers an opportunity to discuss race...
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    THE THESIS OF Teela Foxworth, for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in

  • A Pentadic Analysis of Tropico : Dramatism and Digital Games

    Creator:
    Shields, Matthew J.
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    How do digital games convey meaning? Academic studies of video games seem concerned with creating discipline-specific new methodologies for examining the medium. From the standpoint of the rhetorical critic, however, new forms of communication can still be examined with traditional techniques. This paper analyzes the 2001 video game Tropico using...
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    Masters Thesis
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    the degree of Master of Arts In Interdisciplinary Studies in Speech Communication, Speech

  • Weaving Walt : A rhetorical exploration of narrative techniques within Walt: The Man Behind the Myth

    Creator:
    Seuser, Christina N.
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    The Disney Company is an inescapable force in American life that is often detached from the stigma of big business and instead viewed as something particularly valuable, the United States’ foremost storyteller. In addition to the stories that the Disney Company produces through its animated and live-action productions, there is...
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    THESIS OF Christina N. Seuser for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in

  • The Impact of Internet and Videogame Use on College Student Development

    Creator:
    Calhoun, Benjamin W.
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    In recent decades, there has been a tremendous change in the college student experience. In many ways this change has been driven by developments in technology, which have in turn changed the way students conduct research, socialize, and recreate. This thesis seeks to gain an understanding as to how Internet...
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    . Calhoun for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in College Student Services