Browsing by Author "Balester, Valerie"
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Sherwood, Matthew Aaron (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)This dissertation explores the ongoing division between technical communication practitioners and academics by examining the conceptual metaphors that underlie their discourse in professional journals and textbooks. Beginning ...
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Speights, Lara A. (2010-07-14)How do we explain when high school students graduate and are barely able to communicate Spanish? With the growth of global interdependence, students within the United States need to be realistically prepared for an ...
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Scharold, Dagmar (2012-10-19)Cooperative tutoring in a writing center setting consists of two tutors who work collaboratively with one student. It is a variation of one method of training new tutors, where the novice tutor observes the expert tutor ...
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Carney, Sara Elizabeth (2016-01-22)Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980) and the remake Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014) have sparked widespread public interest in science and educated viewers about science. Both series cover many scientific topics, including ...
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Flacy, Kathleen Anne (2014-12-18)The main question addressed in this dissertation relates to the discourses that Latino/a students and community colleges bring to the educational table. From this question come corollary questions concerning the concept ...
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Campos, Kristina M. (2010-01-14)This dissertation examined the presidential elections of 1992, 1996 and 2000 for the narrative tools used to persuade Latino voters. Using Walt Fisher's narrative theory, I evaluated the various parts of the American Dream ...
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Wheeler, Stephanie K (2014-03-31)This project is motivated by the presence of eugenics in our dominant approaches to meaning-making: what does it look like, and why should we care? To begin to answer these questions, this dissertation works from two ...
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Fatemi, Jaleh (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)This study analyzes and reports on the characteristics of writing-triggered peak experience and other positive human experiences and explores some possible factors that can bring about such moments. Three basic questions ...
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Graves, Stephanie J.; Anders, Kathy Christie; Balester, Valerie (Reference Services Review, 2017)● Purpose ○ Collaborations between writing centers and libraries create opportunities for providing information literacy intervention for students doing researched writing. This case study gathered data from writing ...
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Wilburn, Misty B. (2011-02-22)Over the years, multiple studies have been conducted to determine what influences writing. Through the studies, few concrete conclusions have been reached on why individuals write the way they do. Research on children has ...
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Villanueva, Alma (2023-08-01)I read contemporary portraits of people identifying as multiracial through the filter of historical photographic representations of mixed-raced bodies. Each photograph is within an anthropometric style that developed within ...
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Arnold, Lori D (2021-04-21)In my dissertation, I apply a reproductive justice framework to a discourse analysis of twenty-three birth narratives from four websites. I argue that women share their narratives of giving birth on the internet in order ...
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Adanu, Elias Meseneo Kodzo (2020-07-28)In a 2005 essay titled “Bye-Bye Babar,” Taiye Selasi coined the term “Afropolitanism” to name a material and conceptual space inhabited by cosmopolitan Africans. The essay recounted her encounters with Africans of mixed ...
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Inocencio, Gwendolyn C (2020-06-25)Journalists who cover nutrition science are central figures in a crowded media environment that competes to deliver health information to consumers with limited attention. With seemingly equal validity, both expert and ...
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Thomas, Brad 1974- (2012-09-27)This dissertation revises the historical narrative of critical pedagogy in college writing classrooms. It argues that the key principles of critical pedagogy, first articulated by Paulo Freire in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, ...
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McCracken, David Scott (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)This dissertation analyzes Ariel Dorfman's concept of "dream reality" and applies his theory to his four novels: Widows, The Last Song of Manuel Sendero, Mascara, and Hard Rain. Dream reality, the dynamic balance between ...
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Droz, Patricia (2015-05-04)The hypermasculine culture of haute cuisine has been traditionally limiting to women, who tend to leave the restaurant industry or stagnate in their professional growth. With interpretive and descriptive discourse analysis, ...
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Schaefer, Mary Elizabeth (2014-09-02)Online comments have provided a forum for readers to interact with one another on the websites of newspapers, magazines, and other publications. Readers have come to expect comments, but many people, including some ...
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Spring, Sarah Catherine (2011-10-21)Despite the increasing presence of technology in composition classrooms, students have not yet accepted the idea of multiple writing technologies – in fact, most students do not yet fully understand the role of the word ...