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PhD Dissertations in Rhetoric, Composition, and Linguistics
2000-Present


Graduation 2008 English PhDs
Graduation 2008 English Department PhDs.

 

Many of the full texts are available online from the ASU library for ASU students.


2008

Behm, Nicholas [2008] Whiteness, White Privilege, and Three First-Year Composition Guides to Writing. Duane H. Roen, Chair.

Chen, Yi-Ting [2008] A Minimalist Approach to Amis Structure and Complementation. Elly van Gelderen, Chair.

Clemens Fox, Regina [2008] Teaching and Learning, and their Evaluation, Made Visible: Using Theories of Rhetoric to assess Higher Education. Duane H. Roen, Chair.

Cole, Kirsti [2008] Of Being and Passing Away: Performativity and Women's Activist Rhetoric. Maureen Daly Goggin, Chair.

Dal Martello, Chiara [2008] A Linguistic and Cultural Study of Female Visibility in Two Italian Media Genres. Karen Adams, Chair.

Deal, Clarice [2008] Pedagogical Factors in the Use of Music in Foreign Language Instruction: The Didactic Note in the Portugese Subjunctive. Karen Adams, Chair.

Diller, Frederick Jason [2008] (Re)Writing Identity: New Literacy Practices Among the Prai of Northern Thailand. Karen Adams, Chair.

Endres, William [2008] Rhetorical Invention in the Book of Kells: Image and Decoration on their Flight to Meaning. Sharon Crowley, Chair.

Jordan-Diller, Kari [2008] Program Planning Inside-out: Understanding Prai Perspectives on Education and Culture. Karen Adams, Chair.

Ricker, Lisa [2008] Performing Memory, Peforming Identity: Jennie Drew's Autograph Album, Mnemonic Activity, and the Invention of "Feminine" Subjectivity. Maureen Daly Goggin, Chair.

Ryan, John [2008] L1 Acquisition of Argument Structure in Spanish. Elly van Gelderen, Chair.

Sims, Lynn [2008] The Grammaticalization of Ingressive Aspect in English. Elly van Gelderen, Chair.

Sun, Chen Chen [2008] Variations in BA Construction and Its Relevance to DP: A minimalism Perspective. Elly van Gelderen, Chair.

Thacker, Dawn [2008] Silent Soldier: Rhetorical Constructions of Subjectivity in the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Army. Sharon Crowley, Chair.


2007

Bahtchevanova, Mariana [2007] Mood, Modality, and Complementation: A Cross-Linguistic Study of the Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery. Elly van Gelderen, Chair.

Ho, Mei-Ching [2007] Academic Discourse Socialization of American and Taiwanese Graduate Students in TESOL: A Case Study of Small-Group Activities. Karen Adams, Chair.

Ji, Mingping [2007] A Synchronic and Diachronic Study of the Chinese C-System: Sentential Adverbials, Mood Particles and Complementizers. Elly van Gelderen, Chair.

Melucci, Donatella [2007] Tense and Aspect in Learners of Italian. Elly van Gelderen, Chair.

Roses-Thema, Cynthia [2007] Capturing the Dancer as Rhetor: Embodied Perception in a Dance Performance. Maureen Daly Goggin, Chair.

Waggoner, Zachary [2007] Passage to Morrowwind: (Dis)Locating Virtual and "Real" Identities in Video Role-Playing Games. Maureen Daly Goggin, Chair.

Walker, Paul [2007] Writing and Learning from Context: Perceptions of Composition in First-Year Learning Communities. Patricia Webb, Chair.


2006

Al-Bargi, Abdullah [2006] The Modernization and Democratization of American Higher Education, 1850-1900: A Political and Social Perspective. Maureen Daly Goggin, Chair

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Clary-Lemon, Jennifer [2006] The Rhetoric of Identify: Scholarly Journals and Activism as Sites of Change, 1939-2004. Maureen Daly Goggin, Chair.

Hussein, Lutfi [2006] Discursive Construction of Arab-American Group Identity on the World Wide Web. Karen Adams, Chair.

Phung, Ban [2006] A Contrastive Rhetorical Study of Chinese and Mexican Perceptions of their Native Writing Instruction and Its Implications for ESL Teaching and Learning. Karen Adams, Chair.


2005

Al-Taweel, Abeer [2005] Gender Representation in the Twelfth Grade English Language Textbooks in High Schools in Jordan. Karen Adams, Chair.

Andelora, Jeffrey [2005] TYCA and the Professional Identity of Two-Year College English Faculty. Maureen Daly Goggin, Chair.

Clark, Diane [2005] Toward a Theory of Writing Anxiety. Keith Miller, Chair.

Greene, Cheryl [2005] Women On-Lookers: Transnational Feminist Documentaries and the New Women's Diaspora. Maureen Daly Goggin, Chair.

Hendin Rita [2005] Reading Genre as a Human Construct of Dialogue and Social Action: The Building of Community and the Negotiation of Ethos in a College Composition Class. Maureen Daly Goggin, Chair.

Sands-Herz, Teryl [2005] Assessment of Effective Teaching Practices and the Use of Technology in English as a Second Language First Year Composition Courses. Patricia Webb, Chair.


2004

Avery, Dona [2004] Bending the Hunchback: A Rhetorical Inquiry into Hollywood's Quasi-Medieval Relationship with Disability. Duane Roen, Chair.

Procaccini, James [2004] Vico's Counter-Modern Alternative: A New Science of Discourse. Maureen Daly Goggin, Chair.


2003

Badarneh, Muhammad [2003] The Rhetorical Question as a Discursive and Stylistic Device in the Quran. Don Nilsen, Chair.

Beatty, Stephen [2003] What We Talk About When We Talk About English Studies. Maureen Daly Goggin, Chair.

Ryoo, Mi-Lim [2003] Indexing Gender in Computer-Mediated Communication in Korean. Karen Adams, Chair.

Shinabarger, Amy [2003] A Critical Discourse Analysis of a University ESL Classroom: Power and Accommodation. Karen Adams, Chair.

Wood, Johanna [2003] Definiteness and Number: Determiner Phrase and Number Phrase in the History of English. Karen Adams, Chair.


2002

Abanomey, Abdulaziz [2002] The Effect of Texts' Authenticity on Reading-Comprehension Test-Taking Strategies Used by Adult Saudi Learners of English as a Foreign Language. Marysia Johnson, Chair.

Al-Ajeel, Sundos [2002] Aspects of the Lexical Relations of Equivalence and Opposition in Kuwaiti Arabic and American English. Elly van Gelderen, Chair.

Busker, Rebecca [2002] Virtual Kairos: Discursive Space and Asynchronous on-line Discussion. Duane H. Roen, Chair.

Miller-Cochran, Susan [2002] Teaching Writing at a Distance: Exploring Instructional Decisions and Learning Perceptions. Duane H. Roen, Chair.

Montesano, Mark [2002] Rhetoric and Revelation: In Search of a Foundation for Postmodern Ethics. Maureen Daly Goggin, Chair.


2001

Alshalawi, Hamdan [2001] Politeness Strategies in Saudi ESL Computer Mediated Classrooms. Don Nilsen, Chair.

Duttagupta, Chitralekha [2001] Studying the Studies: Construction of Basic Writers in Three Premier Journals from 1970-1999. Duane H. Roen, Chair.

Fast, Rebecca [2001] The Tools of the Spiritual Trade: Strategies of Expert and Novice Sermon Writers. Keith Miller, Chair.

Koncz, James [2001] Rhetorically Analyzing Humor: A Methodology for Studying Humor as a Rhetorical Strategy. Don Nilsen, Chair.


2000

Collins, Judith [2000] Intersections of Writers' Intended Readers with Peer Responders During Asynchronous Forums in First-Year Composition. Duane H. Roen, Chair.

Jeney, Cynthia [2000] Extending the Burkean System Online: A Study of Motive & Internetworked Symbolic Action. Keith Miller, Chair.

Todorovska, Viktorija [2000] E-Mail as an Emerging Rhetorical Space in the Workplace. Maureen Daly Goggin, Chair.


 

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