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Composition and Rhetoric Student Theses and Projects

Kittle, Meagan. "The Large Family Reality Show Genre: Traditional Values in Television Programming." 2010. Advisor: C. Miller.

Marusak, Matthew. “Feeling the (Composition) Space: Yoko Ono and Conceptual Art as Composition Pedagogy." 2010. Advisor: Rieder.

Massengill, Sonya. "Preparing Students across Ability Levels for College-Level Writing: An Application of the Toulmin Model to Arguments about Literature." 2010. Advisor: Penrose.

Neiderhiser, Justine. “Anthologizing Anthologies: Negotiating the Boundaries of Genre and Medium." 2010. Advisor: J. Miller.

Williford, Meagan. “Student Journalists and Online Writing.” 2010. Advisor: Warren.

Hamilton, Victoria. “The Rhetoric of Diplomacy: Appropriateness & Politeness in American Politics.” 2009. Advisor: Zagacki (Communication Department).

Mizelle, Amanda Mizelle. “Curriculum Proposal for 12th Grade English in the D.C. Public School System.” 2009. Advisor: Penrose.

Gane, Josh. "Authorship, Hypertext, and Copyright." 2008. Advisor: Rieder.

Coley, Toby. Wikis in the Teaching of Writing: Purposes for Implementation. 2007. Advisor: Anson.

Ingram, Laura. An Analysis of the Problems of Writing Skill Transference and Its Implications for Professional Writing Instructors. 2007. Advisor: Anson.

Osborn, Alice. A Conversation in the Composition Classroom: Finding our Voice Through Creative Nonfiction. 2006. Advisor: Anson.

Samuels, Laura. The Effectiveness of Web Conferencing Technology in Student-Teacher Conferencing in the Writing Classroom: A Study of First-Year and Graduate Student Writers. 2006. Advisor: Anson.

Holmes, Ashley Joyce. Web Logs in the Post-Secondary Writing Classroom: A Study of Purposes. 2005. Advisor: Anson.

Keto, Alexis. Brain-Based Composition Instruction. 2005. Advisor: Anson.

Barnett, Richard Scot. A space for agency: rhetorical agency, spatiality, and the production of relations in supermodernity. 2005. Advisor: C. Miller.

Pinkston, Ashley. Being Cyborg, Teaching Writing: Figuring a Feminist Practice in the Computer Composition Classroom. 2004. Advisor: C. Miller.

Wagar, Scott. Connections: Working Toward Nonviolence in Composition. 2004. Advisor: Anson.

Shepherd, Dawn Renee. Marketing subjectivity [electronic resource]: Buffy the vampire slayer and construction of the problematic female television audience.2004. Advisor: C. Miller.

Guthrie, Nichole Hurley. Necessary contradictions [electronic resource]: critical pedagogy and Kenneth Burke's Pentad. 2003. Advisor: Lynne.

Wicker, Emily Dunn. Terministic Screens and Cultural Perspectives: A Pentadic Analysis of the Attribution of Motive for the September 11th Event. 2003. Advisor: Katz, S. B.

Fiore, Sallie Mae. Conferencing software [electronic resource]: why to incorporate it into writing instruction and how to select an appropriate product. 2002. Advisor: Lynne.

Tillett, Tanya. A Matter of Degrees: An Evaluation of Instructor Concept of Writing Effectiveness in an Adult Accelerated Degree Completion Program. 2002. Advisor: Anson.

Matarese, Maureen. African American Vernacular English in Freshman Composition and the Social Construction of Teacher Response. 2002. Advisor: Anson.

Furtner, Anita Lynn. What Students Know About Writing and Where They Learn It: An Interview-Based Study of College Seniors. 2001. Advisor: Anson.

Slattery, Shaun Patrick. The Role of Web Sites in Defining and Furthering WAC and CAC: An Annotated Bibliography of WAC and CAC-Oriented Web Sites. 2000. Advisor: Anson.

Bir, Elizabeth Anne. Writing apprehension, motivation, and belief: understanding the fundamentals of affect in tutoring writing. 1998.

Mataxis, Stacy. Integrating Theoretical and Practical Foundations in Training Programs for Composition TAs. 2001.

Geathers, Michele. What's Research Got to Do With It? Writing Research and K-5 Classroom Practice. 2000.

Pender, Kelly. Raising Rhetorical Consciousness: An Investigation of Writing Across the Curriculum, the Rhetoric of the Disciplines, and the Rhetorical Situation. 2000.