Browsing English by Author "Technical and Professional Discourse"
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The Declaration of Independence : A New Genre in Political Discourse or Mixed Genres in an Unlikely Medium?
Capansky, Trisha (East Carolina University, 2011)The dissertation shows how mismatched content/medium relationships can supersede the responses of traditional pairings when the medium dominates the discursive power of the discourse. The dissertation, in part, looks at a ... -
Students' Attitudes Toward And Valuation of First-Year Composition (FYC) as Predictors of Students' English 101 Success
Strickland, Whitney Larrimore (East Carolina University, 2015)This study investigates first-year composition students' attitudes toward and valuation of first-year composition (English 101) to learn which variable, attitudes or valuation, has a relationship with students' first-year ...