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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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
Anything is Possible
(East Carolina University, 2019-11-26)
Love is like an Ironman Triathlon - filled with highs and lows, way longer and tougher than a marathon and a hundred and fourteen times more worth it. Henry and Allison clicked from the moment they met in the TV newsroom ...
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 AR ...
Power in Belief: A Folkloric Study of the Female Psychic Community & Access to Power
(East Carolina University, 2019-08-14)
The ways in which women are denied access to power by societal and religious organizations serves as a significant focal point in academic research. Entities that seem to evade patriarchal influence offer females the best ...
"You Have Herpes. Now What?": Stigma in Healthcare Systems and Disclosure Rhetorics
(East Carolina University, 2019-12-12)
Cultural beliefs about sexually transmitted infections, and herpes specifically, are rhetorically constructed and, crucially, the medical realities of such conditions do not often align with the socially constructed ones. ...