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Students today have become the multi-task generation with texting, email and the web 2.0 in general. Technology could be seen as the new wave of learning in the classroom. Rhetoricians and Educators have tried some of the tools used by students to improve classroom participation. Some educators want to harness the potential behind... »
The Rhetoric of Sales: Infomercials in the Composition Classroom
For my final paper, I plan on engaging in a two-fold research project. The end result will produce a product that can hopefully be used in the composition classroom in order to educate students on various rhetorical strategies and how they are used in a medium outside of composition. I plan to... »
Proposal
Zora Neale Hurston, anthropologist and author, definitely left a unique mark on Harlem Renaissance literature. In her most significant work, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston sends a feminist message about autonomy and remembering one’s experiences; nevertheless, many of her contemporaries who sought change for African Americans criticized her work as minstrel, primitive, and... »
Response to Mystery Proposal
We talked about Burke, but not about the Pentad. I found some sources that may help me: The Rhetoric of Fiction – Wayne C. Booth; Detective Fiction – Robin W. Wink; Bloody Murder – Julian Symons; The Detective Novel of Manners – Hanna Charney; The World of the Thriller – Ralph Harper. I’m not... »
Rhetorical effects of music in education
Last year I was chastised for teaching English with musical and theatrical methods in the classroom. I was able to keep my students engaged and interested in the material that we were going through; consequently, my students internalized the learning materials, and they were excited everyday about the prospects of what we were going... »
The use of rhetorical and compositonal elements in the Harry Potter series.
I would like to research the rhetorical and compositional elements used in youth fiction, specifically the Harry Potter series, and to investigate what arguments are being made and the devices used to influence those arguments. This research area is important to me because I feel that youth fiction is a very important... »
The Rhetoric of Women in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Literature
I have read and studied quite a bit of women’s literature as an English major, but upon taking this class, I find myself wondering about the rhetorical devices and strategies at play in not only the works I have studied but those of other women writers as well. During this research process, I plan... »
5001 Proposal Is California still “the land of fruits and nuts?”
The Rhetoric of the Gay Debate in a Liberal State California has long been considered a liberal state on most issues. People from other states often refer to California as “the land of fruits and nuts” and they aren’t talking about our long history of bountiful agricultural production. No, our great state is known as... »
Japanese Rhetoric
A survey of rhetoric course begins in ancient Greece, moves to the Romans, heads westward over time through Europe and the New World. Our course attempts to include rhetoric from China, India and Persia, but still overlooks rhetorical contributions from Japan, Africa, and the indigenous peoples of Australia and the Americas. My focus will... »
5001 Proposal
Dawn Hamilton English 5001 – Kim DeVries Research Proposal 3/12/09 Rhetoricians and educators have been trying for centuries to develop learning methods that encourage dialogic and participatory classroom settings. The struggle to create active- rather than passive-learners has been ongoing and volatile, the challenges changing with each new generation of students. Teachers today are faced with the battle... »