Dissertations by Program Graduates

Tina Arduini (2016)
Tools of Play: Developing a Pedagogical Framework for Gaming Literacy in the Multimodal Composition Classroom

Pauline Baird (2016)
Towards A Cultural Rhetorics Approach to Caribbean Rhetoric: African Guyanese Women from the Village of Buxton Transforming Oral History

April Conway (2016)
Practitioners of Earth: The Literacy Practices and Civic Rhetorics of Grassroots Cartographers and Writing Instructors  

Eden Leone (2016)
Rhetorical Inquiry: Feminist Argumentative Modes and Expectations in Detective Fiction

Christine Garbett (2016)
Literacies in Context: Working-Class Deaf Adults

Megan Adams (2015) 
Through Their Lenses: Examining Community-Sponsored Digital Literacy Practices in Appalachia

Estee Beck (2015)
Computer Algorithms as Persuasive Agents: The Rhetoricity of Algorithmic Surveillance within the Built Ecological Network

Shirley Faulkner-Springfield (2015)
Claiming and Framing African American Male Ethos: Case Studies of the Literacy Practices of Two African American Male Writers

Mariana Grohowski (2015)
At War with Words: Understanding U.S. Service-Personnel's Literate Practices for a Universal Design for Learning Worldview

Ken Hayes (2015)
Socializing First Year Composition: A Study of Social Networking Sites' Impact on First Year Students

Craig Olsen (2015)
New at Barnes and Noble: An Argument for More Public Based Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition Studies

Amanda Athon (2014)
Fostering Language Diversity through Classroom-Based Assessment Practices

Matthew Bridgewater (2014)
What Hath Mobiles Wrought? Smartphone and Tablet Multiliteracies and Their Implications for Writing as Process

Deborah Morris (2014)
Reconsidering Teacher Commentary as Interactive and Collaborative Dialogue: Implications for Student Writing and Revising

Martha Shaffer (2014)
Affective Possibilities for Rhetoric and Writing: How We Might Self-Assess Potentiality in Composition

Heather Trahan (2014)
Relationship Literacy and Polyamory: A Queer Approach 

Kerri Hauman (2013)
Community-Sponsored Literate Activity and Technofeminism: Ethnographic Inquiry of Feministing

Stacy Kastner (2013)
Identity Chats: Co-Authorized Narratives and the Performance of WRiterly Selves in Mass-Multiliterate Times

Jeff Kirchoff (2013)
Writing Centers as Literacy Sponsors in the 21st Century: Investigating Multiliteracy Center Theory and Practice

Alison Witte (2013)
Preaching and Technology: A study of Attitudes and Practices

Katherine Fredlund (2012) 
"Among Ourselves:" The Collaborative Rhetorics of Nineteenth Century Ladies' Literary Societies

Jie Li (2012)
Process and Postprocess in China's Educational Context

Krista Petrosino Barber (2012)
Some (Still) Like it Hot: Re-envisioning Transdisciplinarity and Collaboration in First Year Composition and Jazz

Shawn Ramsey (2012)
Deliberative Rhetoric in the Twelfth Century: The Case for Eleanor of Aquitaine, Noblewomen, and the Ars Dictaminis

Suzan Aiken (2011) 
Silence as a Rhetor's Tool: Rhetorical Choices for and uses of Silence

Emily J. Beard (2011)
First-Generation College Students Transitioning to Graduate Teachers of Writing: A Proposed First-Generation Pedagogy

Toby Coley (2011)
Digital Media Ethics in the Writing Classroom

Vanessa Cozza (2011)
Latino/as in Higher Education: Modes of Accommodation in First-Year Writing Programs

Joe Erickson (2011)
Composing Rhetoric and Composition Program Websites: A Situated Study and a Heuristic Model

Bobby Kuechenmeister (2011)
Answering the Call of Duty: Composition Pedagogy Problems, Multimodal Solutions, and Gaming Literacies

Yvonne Schultz (2011)
Remediating Rhetorical Room at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair: Lucy Stone, Mary Cassatt, and Ida B. Wells

Beth Church (2010) 
Epideictic Without the Praise: A Heuristic Analysis for Rhetoric of Blame.

Brittany Cottrill (2010)
Transitioning to E-Portfolios in a First-Year Writing Program.

Cheryl Hoy (2010)
The Adult Learner in the Online Writing Course.

Meredith Graupner Hurley (2010)
Remediating the Professionalization of Doctoral Students in Rhetoric and Composition

Erin Dietel-McLaughlin (2010)
Remediating Democracy: Youtube and the Vernacular Rhetorics of Web 2.0.

Stephanie Anderson Quinn (2010)
Preparing Doctoral Students in Rhetoric and Composition for Faculty Careers that Contribute to the Public Good.

Jeremy Schnieder (2010)
Placing One Program's Assessment and Its Effects on a Novice Teacher.

Yvonne Schultz (2010)
Remediating Rhetorical Room at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair: Lucy Stone, Mary Cassatt, and Ida B. Wells

Ruijie Zhao (2010)
Weaving Web 2.0 and the Writing Process with Feminist Pedagogy.

Elizabeth Fleitz (2009) 
The Multimodal Kitchen: Cookbooks as Women's Rhetorical Practice.

Heather Fester (2009)
Rhetoric and the Scholarship of Engagement: Pragmatic, Professional, and Ethical Convergences.

Robert Graves (2009)
The Art of Heterotopian Rhetoric: A Theory of Science Fiction as Rhetorical Discourse.

Amie Caroline Wolf (2009)
Preparation of Graduate Assistants Teaching First-Year Writing at Ohio Universities.

Christine Cucciarre (2008) 
Audience Matters: Exploring Audience in Undergraduate Creative Writing Pedagogy.

Jennifer Marie Almjeld (2008)
The Girls of MySpace: New Media as Gendered Literacy Practice and Identity Construction.

Florence Elizabeth Bacabac (2008)
From Cyberspace to Print: Re-Examining the Effects of Collaborative Online Invention on First-Year Academic Writing

Erin Knoche-Laverick (2008)
Feminist and other Intertwining Pedagogies of Writing Instruction in the University of Findlay's Intensive English Language Program.

Ann Gee Lee (2008)
Female Fabrications: An Examination of the Public and Private Aspects of Nüshu.

Sergey Rybas (2008)
Community Re-visited:Involving the Subjectivity of the On-line Learner.

James Robert Schirmer (2008)
Acquiring Literacy: Techne, Video Games and Composition Pedagogy

Christine M. Denecker (2007) 
Toward Seamless Transition? Dual Enrollment and the Composition Classroom

Angela Wallington Zimmann (2007)
Turning the Noose that Binds into a Rope to Climb: A Textual Search for Rhetorical and Linguistic Gender-Markings in Speech Samples of Three Contemporary Female Orators

Tran Thai (2007)
Indirectness in Vietnamese Newspaper Commentaries: A Pilot Study

Lucie Shetzer (2007)
Confronting Aging and Serious Illness through Journaling: A Study of Writing as Therapy

Eric W. Stalions (2007)
Dynamic Criteria Mapping: A Study of the Rhetorical Values of Placement Evaluators

Robin Murphy (2007)
Post-9/11 Rhetorical Theory and Composition Pedagogy: Fostering Trauma Rhetorics as Civic Space

Brennan Thomas (2006) 
Composition Studies and Teaching Anxiety: a Pilot Study of Teaching Groups and Discipline- and Program-Specific Triggers

Brent Royster (2006)
The Construction of Self in the Contemporary Creative Writing Workshop: a Personal Journey

Christopher Harris (2006)
First-Year Composition Handbooks: Buffering the Winds of Change

Mwangi Chege (2006)
"Old Wine" and "New Wineskins" (De)Colonizing Literacy in Kenya's Higher Education

Rebekah Shultz Colby (2006)
Resistance as Negotiation: Strategies and Tactics for Redefining Power Relationships in the Composition Classroom

Richard J. Colby (2006)
Computers, Composition and Context: Narratives of Pedagogy and Technology Outside the Computers and Writing Community

Holly Baumgartner (2005) 
Visualizing Levinas: Existence and Existents Through Mulholland Drive, Memento, and Vanilla Sky

Inez Schaechterle (2005)
Speaking of Sex: The Rhetorical Strategies of Frances Willard, Victoria Woodhull, and Ida Craddock

Lanette Cadle (2005)
A Public View of Private Writing: Personal Weblogs and Adolescent Girls

Mona Dunckel (2005)
Re-Vision: A Rhetorical Analysis of Change in the Holocaust Memorial Center

Karen Rowe (2005)
Painted Sermons: Explanatory Rhetoric and William Holman Hunt's Inscribed Frames

Cynthia Mahaffey (2004) 
Wearing the Rainbow Triangle: the Effect of Out Lesbian Teachers and Lesbian Teacher Subjectivities on Student Choice of Topics, Student Writing, and Student Subject Positions in the First-Year Composition Classroom

Elizabeth Monske (2004)
Transitioning into the Fully Online Writing Course: A Pilot Study

Paul Casey (2004)
Moments of Reconciliation: Kairos in Theory and Praxis

Doreen Piano (2003) 
Congragating Women: Reading the Rhetorical Arts of Third Wave Subcultural Production

Julie Kearney (2003)
The Potential for Expressive and Therapeutic Writing Outcomes in the Basic Communication Course at Denver University, 1939--1950

Paul A. Cesarini (2003)
Toward a New Literacy: Technology, Policy, and Control

Barbara Toth (2001) 
The Rhetoric, Writing, and Action in Context of Teresa of Avila: An Appraisal

Christine Tulley (2001)
Removing the Mask of Silence: Building Female Self-Esteem in the Junior High Writing Classroom Using the Cybergrrl Project

Randall W. McClure (2001)
Authority as a Tension in the College Composition Classroom: Making the Case for a Teacher-Centered, Student-Focused Pedagogy

Russell Sprinkle (2001)
Written Commentary and Reflective Teaching: A Systematic, Theory-Based Approach to Response

Josephine Booth (2001)
This is Not Your Mother's Education: The Need for Hypertext Writing in First-Year Composition

Edward Karshner (2000) 
Representation, Interpretation, Writing: A Phenomenological Approach to Composition

Johnathan D. Mauk (2000)
Writing in Place: A Story of Geography and Composition Pedagogy

Jai Hee Cho (1999) 
A Study of Contrastive Rhetoric between East Asian and North American Cultures as Demonstrated through Student Expository Essays from Korea and the United States

Joseph Wilferth (1999)
Toward Literacy in a New Medium: Hypertext Writing and Composition Pedagogy

Keith Duffy (1999)
The Role of Spirituality in Re-Envisioning Writing Pedagogy

Paul A. Tanner (1999)
Embedded Assessment and Writing: Potentials of Portfolio-Based Testing as a Response to Mandated Assessment in Higher Education

Richard Miller (1999)
The Rehabilitating Role of Martin Buber's I-Thou Relationship in Rhetoric and Composition Studies

Scott Calhoun (1999)
The Classical Trivium in Contemporary Contexts: Receptions and Re-Formations of an Ancient Model of Schooling

Avis Rupert (1999)
Ethnography and Ethnographic-Like Approaches in the Composition and Language Arts Classroom: A Guide to Student Instruction

Michael Ryan (1999)
Words Signifying Light: The Rhetorical Figures as a Prism of Illumination in St. Augustine's "Confessions"

Barbara Liu (1998) 
Meeting the Needs of Diverse Students in Institutions of Diversity: A Genre Process Approach to College Writing Instruction

Brad Barry (1998)
Writer Motivation, Rhetorical Purpose and Classroom Web Publication Projects

John R. Delbridge (1998)
Partners or Patriarchs? Promise Keepers and the Rhetoric of Gender Reconciliation

John J. Fallon (1998)
The Impact of Inservice Teacher Training on the Writing of 879 High School Juniors in Five West Central Ohio Counties

Rosalee Stilwell (1998)
Ethos in the Reflective Voice of James Morris Associate

Siew Chat Burroughs (1998)
Diversifying Models of Audience: Gendering the Relationship between Author and Audience in Written Communication

Teresa Murden (1998)
Technological Literacy: Historical Perspectives on Literacy in American Law, Legislation, and Public Policy

Timothy Ray (1998)
Troubling the Technology: Exploring Issues of Community and Diversity in the Network-Supported First-Year Composition Classroom

Xuewei Wu (1998)
Writing Across Culture: An American Woman Writing her Life in China (1912-1926): A Rhetorical Analysis of Grace McClurg Carson's Archival Collections

Guo Danquing (1998)
Metaphor in Context: Toward a Tagmemic Linguistic Approach

Sharon Strand (1997) 
Reporting Writing Center Successes: Authentic Assessment in the Writing Center

Alan I. Rea, Jr. (1997)
Practicing Informed Writing Pedagogy in the Computerized Classroom: Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk

Carolyn Keefe (1997)
On the Road: Exploring Travel and Travel Writing in Composition Studies

Christine Shearer-Cremean (1997)
(Re)Constructing the Scene of a Crime: A Descriptive Taxonomy of Police Reports on Conjugal Violence Against Women

Michael C. Morgan (1996) 
Student Rhetorical Interaction in an E-mail Conference: A Case Study of a First-Year Writing Course

Steven D. Krause (1996)
The Immediacy of Rhetoric: Definitions, Illustrations, and Implications

John Michael Clark (1995) 
Cognitive Apprenticeship, Motivation, and College Writing: Theoretical and Pedagogical Considerations

Priscilla Riggle (1995)
A Critique of College-Level Writing Placement Procedures: A Case Study of the Reading Practices of Four Evaluators

Yan Xiao-Tong (1995)
Cohesion and Online Documentation

Donna Nelson-Beene (1993) 
Portfolio Assessment as a Tool for Training Composition Instructors: A Consideration of the Model Implemented by the General Studies Writing Program at Bowling Green State University

Virginia Skinner-Linnenberg (1993)
Dramatizing Writing: Reinstating Delivery in the Classroom

Gail Shanely Corso (1991) 
How to "Let them Write-Together": The Effects of Social Styles on Written Products of College Entry-Level Collaborative Writers

Mark Delmaramo (1991)
Microcomputers and the Writing Process: A Survey and Critique

Craig Hergert (1990) 
Towards a Rhetoric of Satire: The Interaction between Reader and Satiric Text

Louise Golden (1990)
What's not Right with Writing: The Effects of Grammar Instruction and Writing Apprehension on the Composing Processes of Basic Writers at the American State College

Peter Schreffler (1990)
Caught between Two Worlds: The Spiritual Predicament and Rhetorical Ambivalence of Garrison Keillor Associate

James Martin (1989) 
Towards a Theory of Textuality for Contrastive Rhetoric Research

Janet Auten (1989)
The Text in the Margin: A Theoretical Analysis of Teacher Commentary on Student Writing

Lynette Porter (1989)
Technical Writing with Computers: A Study of the Documentation-Production Processes of Technical Communicators in Industry

Rex Easley (1989)
Common Ground: Fiction-writing and Composition Associate

Donna R. Cheney (1988)
Teaching Basic Writing: Synthesizing Divergent Elements of Who We Teach, What We Teach, and How We Teach

Roxanne Cullen (1984) 
Toward A Pedagogy of Rewriting (Composition Theory)