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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 ...
RHETORICAL LIFELINES: QUEER AND FEMINIST SURVIVAL IN RIYOKO IKEDA’S THE ROSE OF VERSAILLES
(East Carolina University, 2019-04-25)
This dissertation explores the rhetorical lifelines of queer and feminist survival in the adapted animation of Riyoko Ikeda’s The Rose of Versailles. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this study examines the rhetorics ...
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 ...
Antiseptic Humor : Using Comedy To Confront Realities And Refute Stereotypes In The Works Of Sherman Alexie
(East Carolina University, 2015)
Sherman Alexie, a Native American author of poems, novels, plays, and film uses humor to expose and to explore lingering cultural stereotypes affecting people of Native American ancestry. These stereotypes often conflict ...
Down In The Ghetto
(East Carolina University, 2013)
"Down In The Ghetto" is an account of my time living in the largest favela/slum in Brazil, written to fulfill the requirements of the M.A. in English with a concentration in creative nonfiction. I spent three months in ...
The Sum of Our Parts: Race, Blood, and Genetics in Three Dystopian Young Adult Novels
(East Carolina University, 2016-06-23)
In the last decade, the young adult genre subset of speculative fiction has experienced growth in both publication and popularity. As the breadth of the genre has increased, more multicultural authors and characters have ...
Rich Spirits
(East Carolina University, 1/13/16)
Rich Spirits is about three homeless people huddled together behind a strip mall on a cold winter night. This two-act, social drama explores themes of family, abandonment, dreams, and glass-ceiling culture.
Students' Attitudes Toward And Valuation of First-Year Composition (FYC) as Predictors of Students' English 101 Success
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...