Communication Theses
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Merging Mediums: Applying Document Design to Online Help Systems to Increase Usability, Meghan M. Smith
This Way Girl Comes Bearing Gifts, Alexandra Webster
Valkyrie, Eric Philip Yanders
Phenomenology of Visual Arts in William Faulkner's the Sound and the Fury and as I Lay Dying, Zeinab Zamani
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Springfield Or Bust? A Qualitative Analysis Of The Organization Assimilation Of Young Professionals In Springfield, Missouri, Nii Kpakpo Ekow Abrahams
Investigating The Growth Of Vocabulary Size And Depth Of Word Knowledge In Iraqi Foreign Language Learners Of English, Akram Basim Mohsin Alfatle
A Longitudinal Investigation Of A Sequential Arabic-English Bilingual Child’S Vocabulary Development, Seba A. Al-hindawy
Eastern Flames In The Mind On Fire: A Study Of Eastern And Qur’Anic Influences On Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mohammed Qays Khaleel AlQaisi
The Representation Of The Iraqi War, Middle Eastern Culture, And Women In Benjamin Buchholz's One Hundred And One Nights, Entidhar Hamzah Abbas Al-Rashid
Education Policy And Practices Of English As A Foreign Language (Efl) In Iraq, Ihab Razzaq Altufaili
The Visual Rhetoric Of Royalty, Barbara Joann Anderson
Skin And Smoke, Kelly Anne Baker
Guiding In and Away, Terry Belew
Community Construction In The Basic Writing Classroom, Jennifer Nicole Collins
Identifying The Key Components Of Place-Conscious Pedagogy To Help Maximize Rural Potential, Amber Marie Dlugosh
Constructing The Political Identity Of Generation Next: A Focus Group Study, Ryan Graham
The Identity Of Leave-Taking: A Multi-Methodological Qualitative Sensemaking Explanation, Janice Nadine Hersey
The Need For Neal: The Importance Of Neal Cassady In The Work Of Jack Kerouac, Sydney Anders Ingram
Identifying Facebook-, Twitter-, And Instagram-Specific Rhetoric And Interaction: A Case Study, Sharon Kathleen Jones
Investigating The Relationship Between Data Displays, Rhetoric, And Reader Response In Technical Writing, Hanna Louise Landgrebe
Roommate Conflcit: An Actions Approach to Conflict through Text-Messaging, Shaley Moore
A Situational Application Of Myth To A New Conservative Narrative: The Rhetoric Of Thad Cochran, Nickolas James Nickols
Family Group Conference Experiences From The Perspective Of Volunteer Facilitators, Rebecca Ann Saunders
Gravities, Sierra Faye Sitzes
Modern Myth And Ideology In David Foster Wallace's The Pale King, Matthew Ryan Stewart
The Terrible Women I've Been, Meagan Rose Stoops
Apocrypha, Robert Taylor Supplee
Swamp Boat, Gravy Boat: Memory And Place In Fiction, Kaycie Surrell
Patsy Sings For Me: Stories, Brenna Elizabeth Womer
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
The Orientalism of Edgar Allan Poe: The Allure of the Middle East in Al-Aaraaf, Sohaib Kamal Al-Kamal
Metadiscourse in the Academic Writing of EFL and ESL Arabic-Speaking Iraqi Graduate Students, Mohammed Hamdi Kareem Al-Rubaye
Tomorrow Will Be More of the Same, Jason Edward Brown
Sisters Before the Fall, Heather LaNae Captain
On Someone Else's Dime, Joel William Coltharp
Catching My Breath, Amanda Faith Conner
Delilah Returns Home, Allyson Page Dale
Writing Trauma in Iraq: Literary Representations of War and Oppression in the Fiction of Sinan Antoon, Zahraa Qasim Habeeb
Death of a Journalist, Ryan Mark Hubble
Girls at the Gun Show, Lora Michelle Knight
Lashing Back At the Wind, Dane Christopher Lale
Affective Triggers in Defoe's Moll Flanders, Rachel Danielle Lanning
Bridging the Information Gap for Ulcerative Colitis Patients, Amanda Morgan
The Science Is Only Seasonal, Katrina B. Murr
An Affect Theory of Composition, Lindsey L. Novak
Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Lady Jeune's Views on Victorian Culture, Society and Education, Heather Dawn Weaver
The Essence of English Identity: Gender's Role in the Stability of the Nation in English Literature, from the Anglo-Saxons to the Victorians, Natalie Marie Whitaker
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
How Well Do Technical Communication Students Understand Copyright Explanations in Common Technical Communication Textbooks?, Hunter Stanton Auman
The Pain of Astronomy, Natalie J. Byers
Jacob Wrestles Esau: Disguise, Double-Meaning, and Deceit in Genesis 32:24-32, Martin Allen Campbell
The New Welfare Queen: A Narrative Analysis of Mitt Romney's 47% Speech, Calvin Richard Coker
These Were Real People, Renee L. Dunn
Communication and Community at East Wind, Jay A. Howard
Everyone Is Their Own Kind of Beautiful: The Long-Term Influences of the Girls Circle Process, Denea Elizabeth Malone
Imaginary Women: Violence and the Postmodern Construction of Gender in DC's New 52, Natalie Renae Monzyk
What We Understand to Be Ghosts, Andrew Daniel Myers
Universal Design: A User-Centered Approach to Achieving Universal Access in Print and Web Writing and Design, Eden M. Olena
Telling Stories, Erik J. Renth
The Messenger: a One Hour Television Drama, Jennifer Kay Silvey
Dorothy L. Sayers, Virginia Woolf, & the Long-Weekend: Textual Representations of Shell-Shock, Bambi L. Whitaker
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Please Talk to Strangers: Using Communication Privacy Management Theory to Analyze Disclosure Between Strangers, Levi Costello
The Art of Feeling Sorry for Yourself, Derek Shane Cowser
Stealing Home, Ted Fenton
The Art of Forgetting: A Memory Manifesto for the Digital Age, Amber Gilmer
The Kingdom Falls, Matt Kimberlin
The Condition of the Air, Timothy Leyrson
Lot 17 and Other Stories, Joseph C. Lucido
Unsaid, Madison McFarland
Tectonic Texts, Revolutionary Rhetoric, Evolving Ethos: Revising Print Journalism's Rhetoric and Ethos for a Multimedia World, Kandice McKee
Contraceptive Controversy in the Affordable Care Act: Sandra Fluke's Testimony and Rush Limbaugh's Response, Kelly Michelle Nickel
Narratives of Transition: United States Service Members' Stories of Reintegration after a Deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan Post 9/11, Elizabeth Pamfilis
Grace Saving, Angela Beth Rose
Exposing the Wound : A Creative Exploration of the Lasting Effects of Sexual Abuse (or How I Didn't Get Better ), Ariel Smith
The Object of My Abduction, Bassem Tahhan
Folklore, Fakelore, and Folklore as a Literary Device in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, Genevieve Mercedes Vallentine
Social Links, Justin Christopher Villasenor
Echoes of Earth, Satarah B. Wheeler
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Remembering, Kenneth Chumbley
Posing Pretty, Heather Cook
Rhetoric in the Vernacular: Identification, Symbolic Convergence, and Robert Kenner's Food, Inc., Dana Dominguez
Triptych: Off Thresher Road, Brett Daniel Houser
College Small Groups: A Study of an Instructional Tool to Increase Satisfaction and Outcomes, Gary Lee Iman
Faith's Late Procession: Poems, Dustin M. Macormic
Small Fires, Toni Mitchell
Katniss and the Monomyth: Constructing Gender Identity in the Hunger Games, Hilary Montgomery
Pineapple Upside Down Boy (& Other Figures of Note in the Field of Curiosity), Robert Bruce Pickering
On the Death of My Sister: A Crystallized Account of Family Grief and Bereavement, David Van Bebber Jr.
“I Was Their Worst Nightmare”: The Narrative Experience of Military Widows, Erin Christine Wehrman
The Dialectics of Boundary Spanning: An Examination of the Dialectic Tensions Experienced by the Boundary Spanners of a Complex Organization Composed of Interrelated Groups, Eric John Zackrison
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Unrequited Love for a Female Beat Poet: The Deliberate Artistry of Elise Cowen, Jessie Ann Cannady
Love, Rescue, Heal: Managing the Meaning of a Mission to End Human Trafficking, Jessica Danielle Clements
Helping Those Who Help Themselves: a Critical Discourse Analysis Of CNN's 'Indepth: Empowered Patient', Shanna LeiAnn Goldsmith
You're in My Country Now!: Defining American Identity Through Depictions of Arabs and Americans in American Film, Jennifer Ann Jackson
The C-Street Conflict: Identifying Conflict Perceptions and Strategies in Multi-Party, Intractable Community Conflict, Theresa Marie Lochhaas
Using the Arabic Language as a Tool For Cultural Understanding in the U.S. in the Post 9/11 World, Moulay Abdelkarim Moukrime
Piety and Puritanism in the Plays of the Poetess-Punk Aphra Behn, Magi Ida Smith
Quick Fix and Heartbeats, Jessica Marie Sneeringer
The New Expressivist: Redefining Composition and the Reader with the Dawning of Social Expressivism, Nicole Christine Thom-Arens
The Effects of Procrastination on Student Papers, Amy Diane Whitson
Networks For Girls: An Examination of the Girls Circle Process, Meaghan Younker
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Bomb, Benjamin None Bogart
