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“LIFE HUNG ON A WORD”: SHIBBOLETHS AND GENOCIDE IN DANTICAT’S THE FARMING OF BONES, WIESEL’S NIGHT, AND COURTEMANCHE’S A SUNDAY AT THE POOL IN KIGALI
(2019-12)This thesis explores how shibboleths, or cultural passwords, function as markers to signify identity and group membership status among coexisting ethnic groups. Specifically, shibboleths are critical for identity detection ... -
ACTING "WHITE": THE UNSPOKEN, UNDERSTOOD HIERARCHY OF BLACKNESS
(2020-01-09)This thesis will examine how a variety of extenuating factors serve to complicate a black person’s self-identity, as well as determine acceptance or exclusion from the black community in the United States. The introductory ... -
The Folkloric Image of the Good Girl and Its Effects on Women in the Age of the Internet
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-19)Folklore is the unofficial culture of a society that changes over time and often reflects what a society finds important. One image of folklore is that of the "good girl." The good girl ideal is the concept that women have ... -
On Edge: A Techné of Marginality
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-24)Technical and professional communication has traditionally been rooted in the white, Western, hetero-patriarchal rhetorical tradition and bound by rigid notions of objectivity and neutrality that exclude historically ... -
Editorial Peer Review as a Content-Shaping Mechanism in Technical Communication Journal Scholarship
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-19)Editorial peer review serves multiple functions in academic journal publishing including gatekeeping, quality control, and mentoring. As representatives of a discipline and its body of knowledge, peer reviewers evaluate ... -
Y’all Call it Technical and Professional Communication, We Call it #ForTheCulture: The Use of Amplification Rhetorics in Black Communities and their Implications for Technical and Professional Communication Studies
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-23)This project seeks to define and identify the use of Amplification Rhetorics (AR) in the social movement organization TRAP Karaoke and at three Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). In highlighting the ... -
The rhetoric of climate change: Using Latour to compose a nonmodern approach to our modern climate crisis
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-23)Climate change is the greatest threat facing humanity in the 21st century. Scientists from a variety of specialized fields, from biology and chemistry, to climatology and geology, are currently conducting research to ... -
Constellating Identities and Workplace Genres in Writing Center Discourse
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-15)This study investigates the ways in which blank, written workplace genres mediate relationships and identities in the writing center. Forms developed for scheduling and recordkeeping are part of everyday practices that ... -
BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: FAMILIAL EXPECTATIONS IN THREE MULTICULTURAL NOVELS
(East Carolina University, 2018-12-06)By using the commonality of family, this cross-cultural investigation hopes to highlight some of the similarities and differences among three vastly different cultures with the hope that readers discover the ways in which ... -
Between Two Worlds: Mixed-Race Ostracism by the Minority Group in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, Matt De La Peña’s Mexican Whiteboy, and Heidi Durrow’s The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
(East Carolina University, 2018-11-27)In the three texts that will be discussed, the authors chose young protagonists who come to terms with the contradictions their background creates. In some ways, each of the novels presents the idea of mixed-race as being ... -
Student Retention at Tidewater Community College: A Technical and Professional Communication Approach to Creating a Comprehensive Document to Help Students Defeat Their Obstacles and Stay in School
(East Carolina University, 2018-12-06)This study aims to help create a document which could help retain students to completion of their chosen program at Tidewater Community College by use of a condensed technical document. Community college students face ... -
A "Black Body Electric" - African American Rhetoric(s) and the Hip-Hop Aesthetic: Claudia Rankine's Citizen, Beyonce Knowles' Lemonade, and Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-23)This work examines the formalistic shifts in contemporary African American literature through a hip-hop lens. No longer following the status quo regarding genre or voice, these texts manage to reposition Black writing by ... -
An Argument for Writing Assessment Literacy for Multilingual and L2 Writers: Deconstructing Linguistic Bias
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-31)College composition classrooms are becoming less monolithic as they linguistically diversify. When L2 writers are present in college composition classrooms, they are vulnerable to assumptions, and judgments about their ... -
Memetic Rhetorical Theory in Technical Communication: Re-Constructing Ethos in the Post-Fact Era
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-20)This dissertation interrogates existing interpretations of ethos by analyzing the spread of misinformation through online communities. In particular, this dissertation argues that the rhetorical concept of ethos should ... -
"Visual Culture and the 'Alice' Books" by Erin Clark Frost
(2017)This presentation asserts that John Tenniel’s illustrations were and are integral to the Alice books and that those illustrations changed text-image relationships in history. First, we note that Tenniel’s illustrations ... -
Tainted Through Transfer: Dis/connective Residues in Mohsin Hamid's Contaminated Fiction
(East Carolina University, 2017-06-22)Given the profusion of negative terminology ascribed to non-Western migrants generally, coupled with Mohsin Hamid's extensive and recurring implementation of ecological and biological collapse in his first three published ... -
MATERIALIZING MAKERSPACES: QUEERLY COMPOSING SPACE, TIME, AND (WHAT) MATTERS
(East Carolina University, 2017-07-19)This dissertation project explores makerspaces as non-traditional composing networks where makers work with (and against) unconventional digital and physical materials such as vinyl, cut paper, plastic filament, insects, ... -
EXTENDING THE TECHNOLOGICAL, DISCURSIVE, AND RHETORICAL HORIZONS OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH LIBRARIES’ INFORMATION ARCHITECTURES: AN ANALYSIS OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY’S JAMES B. HUNT JR.
(East Carolina University, 2017-07-20)This dissertation analyzes how North Carolina State University's (NCSU) James B. Hunt Jr. Library extends the ways in which the information architectures of academic research libraries can function as a technology, as ... -
First Year Composition: The Effects of Race and Gender on Graduate Teaching Assistants
(East Carolina University, 2017-07-18)Based on current literature there is a lack of discussion surrounding the identity of English Graduate Teaching Assistants and how embodied experiences influence teaching approaches throughout a First Year Composition ... -
Sylvia Townsend Warner's Modernist Ekphrasis And Synesthesia
(East Carolina University, 2017-07-18)The presence of music and sound is crucially important in the writing of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1873-1978). A noticeably acoustic writer, music, and noise in general, are major tools Warner employed to convey the vacillation ...