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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
SUPPORTING TEACHER-WRITERS ENGAGEMENT WITH TROUBLESOME KNOWLEDGE: EVIDENCE OF TRANSFER IN WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
Writing Across the Curriculum has typically been discussed in terms of curricular or pedagogical transformation. While it helped to transform teaching from lecture-centered classrooms into more student-centered pedagogies, ...
LOVE IN POSTCOLONIAL TIMES: EXPLORING ECHOES OF C.S. LEWIS’ FOUR LOVES IN SELECTED WORKS OF DEREK WALCOTT, V.S. NAIPAUL, TONI MORRISON, AND PABLO NERUDA
(East Carolina University, 8/5/2020)
This thesis explores the universal theme of love, as analyzed by C.S. Lewis in his classical essay The Four Loves. In the course of this literary quest, selected literary works of four laureates of Nobel Prize in literature ...
“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
(East Carolina University, 2019-11-14)
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 ...