Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Cooperative learning and second language acquisition: Parallels for success in the regular classroom, Lisa Ann Lindberg
Computers and composition: Theory and corresponding software, Susan Renee Montgomery
The crowd in the voice: An inquiry into the relationship between collaborative learning and composition theory, Claudia Ann Parnell
Larry McMurtry's argument with the cowboy myth, Lynn Holleman Rudloff
The effect of error on the grading of ESL and native-speaker freshman writing: A comparison, Rita Kathlyn Somers
Learning limitations of the on-line composition process, Kelly Rose Wavering
Baseball and American culture: The mythology, the metaphor and the language, Elizabeth Deloris Woodworth
Romance by the book: A morphological analysis of the popular romance, Susie Zachik-Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Revising muses: Irrationality, creativity, and composition, Matt Cliff Cofer
Reading, writing, and metacognition: Theoretical connections and teaching methods, Mary Ellen Cushman
The role of language in constructing consciousness in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Tamra Elizabeth DiBenedetto
Basic writers, oral strategies, and the writing process, Deborah Ann Johnson
Japanese and English rhetorical strategies: A contrastive analysis, Bern Mulvey
Marilynne Robinson's housekeeping: The rhetoric of the new women's reality, Cynthea Reid Preston
Equalizing the composition classroom: A look at who and what we overlook and strategies for change, Jeannette Linda Riddell
Replacing fear, anxiety, and interference with motivation in basic writers: A reader-response approach, Lisa Lynne Turnbull
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
A deconstructive analysis of Plato's Phaedrus, Marlene Evangeline Anderson
Crossing the writing threshold, Carol Lea Clark
Buffoons and bullies: James Joyce's priests in "Stephen Hero" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", a study of revision, Cynthia Ann Cotter
Robert Louis Stevenson and Scotland: A most complicated relationship, Patricia Berard Dunsmore
Debate, social criticism and rhetoric in The Left Hand of Darkness: An analysis of strategy, Ellen Irene Elfstrom
Sentence combining and the ESL student, Patricia Lynn Golder
Inquiry into the use of autobiographical writing in the college composition, Carol Ann Miter
The application of stasis theory to the role of peer tutoring in writing centers, Carol Ann Wene Thom
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Cognitive egocentrism and audience awareness: A developmental exploration of the eighth grader as writer, Karen Michelle Calkins
Facilitating creativity through the discipline of craftsmanship within the writing process, Toni SuzAnne Dingman
The teaching of composition to speakers of non-standard dialects through collaborative learning, Ilona M. Eubank
On dichotomous political rhetoric: With special reference to Ronald Reagan's language, Sirkka Helena Halmari
John Fowles' narrative stylistics in The Collector, Daniel Martin, and A Maggot, Laura Lee Hope
Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God: A stylistic analysis and its application to the teaching of writing, Joseph Stanley Klepadlo
Rhetorical alternatives of free verse: A spatial perspective, Tyler Paul Manners
Reader/viewer response to the rhetoric of costume, Patricia Lee Moore
Echo and artifact: the similarities and differences between print codes and oral codes and their implications for the teaching of composition, James R. Murphy
Indian English: Is it "bad" or "baboo" or is it Indianized so that it is able to deal with the unique subject matter of India?, Marilyn Jane Sargent
A rhetorical analysis of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Gail E. Rogers Sulkin
Marxist allegory in Jack London's Alaskan Tales, Amy Elizabeth Tavidian
Defining and coaching revision, Eva Yvonne Valentijn
An approach to teaching English composition in Micronesian cultures, Lori Arlene Weiny
Points of conflict: Where the high school and university writing communities differ, Robert Glenn Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
"As the stereopticon condenses into one instantaneous field": The reader's holographic reality in part IV of Faulkner's The Bear, Sandra Kay Alps
Implications of the use of nonsexist language for the teaching of writing, Louise Marie Rodriguez Connal
The recursive value of non-utilitarian writing as applied to cognitive domain theories, Gregory Wallace Gilbert
The narrative persona of Martin Amis: A transitional stylistic bridge between postmodernism and new journalism, Janice Arlene Kollitz
Tutoring toward style, Ann White Mahoney
The "why" of composition: Connections between motivation and the writing process, Maureen Newlin
"How this took place he couldn't have said exactly": A stylistic analysis of the prose of Don DeLillo, Richard Ronald Sisk
The vagaries of voice in the composing process, Denise Rochelle Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Figures of speech and political manipulations: The scapegoating of the monarch in Thomas Paines's Common Sense, Katherine Wesley Abu-Shabakeh
The importance of the affective dimension in composition, Diana Elva Acevedo
An analysis of the revisions of Willa Cather's two editions of The Song of the Lark, Cherrlyn Eller
Roland Barthes's Ancient rhetoric: A translation, Sandra Ohse Fredriksen
Modern rhetoric/ancient realities, James Walsh Friedenbach
"Words Moving Secretly Toward Some Goal of Their Own": The Rhetorical Use of the "As If" in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor, Kellie Renee Rayburn
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Using schema theory to integrate reading and writing process in composition, Thomas Coley Allen
Writing and the unconscious, Janis A. Brams
Understanding the aesthetic effect of the familiar essay and its importance in the composition class, Michele Jean Butler
Theory and criticism of the rhetoric of social movements, Michael Oval Kent
Francis Bacon and composition, Scott David Minard
The woman is perfected: A reader-response approach to Sylvia Plath's Ariel, Kathleen Herrick Schroeder
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
Joan Didion and the new journalism, Jean Gillingwators
Writer's block: A crisis in business writing, Pat Reed
Playing the audience: A reader's production of Between the Acts, Jill Scanlan
Sir Winston S. Churchill: An examination of style, Curtis Woodrow Stark II
Synectics: Applying its methods and techniques to the composition class, Jack Tapleshay
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
Wordsworth and discovery: A romantic approach to composing, Susan C. Critchfield
A composing model for technical writing: Bringing together current research in composition and situational constraints upon the technical writer, Roderick Michael Hendry
Recreating writing: A consideration of translated literature, Rabea Jan
Readability in business and technical writing, Billie Lea
Pre-writing rhetorical strategies which activate both hemispheres of the brain, Edith M. Sonnenburg
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Rhetorical invention a survey, Phyllis P. Bee
A dramatism of comedy: The voice of Eudora Welty, Dianne Briley
Computers in teaching writing: An annotated bibliography, Thomas A. Chambers
Technical writing and the idea of the interpretive community, Phyllis M. Gilmore
Revision: Reasons and methods, Helen Jane Cerny Jones
A study in response to student writing, Michael K. Sonnenburg
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Palliative Rx for ESL/native English writers in integrated classrooms, Nanao Kojima
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
Orwell: Did he produce what he professed?, Russell Dove Eyre
Reader-response criticism and its implications for the teaching of writing, Linda Leigh Sherman
The rhetoric of the proverb in The marriage of heaven and hell and the Tao te ching, Julie Tilton-ling
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
English composition tutors: Why they are necessary and what they need to know, Alice Jean Udall Glazier
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Women: Their place in the sun as seen through Lope, Moliere and Goldoni, Maria A. Villarreal
