Communication Theses
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Rhetoric of the Self: Metanarrative and the Creation of Identity Through Memoir, Julie M. Davenport
Drive-Thru, Duane Paul Gilson II
Forgive Me Public for I Have Sinned: A Rhetorical Analysis of Mark Sanford's Apology, Michael Spencer Harris
Religious Marketing: Attracting Constituents in a Consumer-Driven Market, Timothy H. Knox
From Criminal to Law-Abiding: Juvenile Offenders and the Communication of Identity Change throughout Rehabilitation Programs, Erin Elisabeth Pagel
Testing Correlations Between the Competitiveness Index and a Competitiveness Measurement Game, A. Dean Pierden
The Beauty of Rapport: Reading Three Odes by John Keats, Rita Ellen Sherwin
Unstill Life: Poems, Isaiah Michael Vianese
Socrates in Chains: Questioning the Socratic Method in the Writing Center, Sarah F. Viehmann
Lost and Found, Erica Warren
Singularity Deferred, William Roger Watts
Lorapri, Sarah Michelle Wynn
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Sins of the Mother: When the Crazy Just Won't Let Go, Nicole Marie Cox
The "Long-Benighted Mind Of Captain Delano": Ideological Fantasy and Symbolic Determination in Benito Cereno, Landis David Duffett
Creating a Chapter Book: The Evolution of Foxy and the Grump, Judith Ann Ermold
Tramplings, and Other Stories, Justin Colt Kingery
Images of Old: Intergenerational Perceptions of Ageing, Kathryn D. Long
Possum Ivory, Charles K. Miller
True Stories, Adam Mills
(Dis)Owning Our Written Discourse: Personal Reflections on/from Native American Storytelling, Kelly L. Money
Chiaroscuro, Benjamin Paul Pfeiffer
Instructor Response to Student Writing: A Study of Length, Specificity, Personality Type, Writing Proficiency, and Appropriation, James Eric Sentell
If You Read It: The Poetry of Marie Melisou in Translation, Jennifer Leigh Smith
Burden, Caleb Stokes
Intimations, Sarah Frances Viehmann
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Tara, Matthew Brunson
Small Time People, Thomas Lee Busby
Mixing Friends With Politics: A Functional Analysis of Presidential Candidate's Social Networking Profiles, Jordan Lee Compton
Spiritual Battle, Eric M. Eckert
Night Dance And Other Stories: A Collection Of Short Fiction, Jennifer Edwards
Craving What You Still Have, Jessica Glover
Understanding the Social Identity of Homeless Youth: A Visual Analysis of Experience, Lindsey Harness
Come, Comet, Chris Helms
Under the Canopy of Small Houses, Megan C. Johnson
Investigating the Relationship Between Verifying Feedback and Loneliness: A Social Exchange Perspective, Shawn King
Of Mushrooms and Shangri-L.A.: Food in Fantastic Literature for the Young, Jennifer A. Matters
Composition And "I": Practicing the Scholarship of the Personal, Craig A. Meyer
Blood Work, Daniel Newell
The Anxieties of Common Life: Ideological Contradictions and Symbolic Resolutions in Northanger Abbey, Jacob Nunnally
Don't Be a Nerd in Front of a Gangsta: Exploring Coping Strategies, Identity Management, and Marginalization in Gifted Adolescents, Katie Margavio Striley
Can You Hear Me Now?: Doctor-Patient Communication and Applications of Neurosurgery in Telemedicine, Kelly Tenzek
A Survey of White Paper Types, Edward D. Thompson
The Feasibility and Benefits of Online Learning for Technical Writers, Leah D. Thurman
Personal Writing in the Composition Classroom: Passport to Success in an Academic Landscape, Lane Phoenix West
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Church 2.0: A Study of Church Web Development in Light of Web 2.0, Sarah J. Austin
Bowers v. Lawrence: the Narratives of the Supreme Court, Daniel Christopher Bohlmann
The City Is a Morgue, Matthew Charles Dampier
Coliseum, Stephen Gray Dixon
Speaking Holler Creek, Emily A. England
The Lovely Never-Never Land of Magic, of Fairy Queens and Virginal Maidens: Fairy Tale Imagery in the Early Poetry of Sylvia Plath, Kimberly Gottlieb
The Novel and Society: A Postmodern Perspective on Pedagogy, Elizabeth Paige Hall
The Pitfalls of Powerpoint, Christopher A. Jones
Utilizing Nanoporous Alumina Membranes for Molecular Transport and Silica Nanotube Synthesis, Ravikanth Kona
Revelation Springs, Ross Payton
How to Humanize a Zoning Ordinance: Practicing the Art of the Possible While Writing Laws for Bureaucrats and Citizens, Robert Stephen Reed
Adolescent Perception of Moral Communication Sources, Kate Yurka Spangler
The Edged Coins Can Smart: Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan and the Semiotics of Late Modernism, Carl A. Stewart
Bent and Orphaned: Shakespeare's Disappearing Mothers, Alisha Joy Tuttle
North of Sixty-Six, Adam Veile
Changing Sexist Language: Intercollegiate Debate as a Laboratory for Change, Kelly L. Winfrey
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Gritty Girls Undone: The Unraveling of Gender Fluidity in Pat Cadigan's Synners, Arminda Apgar
Fragmentation and Re-Construction: Folklore and Metanarration in Jane Yolen's Briar Rose, Genevieve S. Baumann
The Brass Bands Played Too Late: Vietnam Veterans Discuss War, Homecoming, and Life After Vietnam, Tonja R. Cox
The King's Brown Daughter, Camille Delaurier
Controlling Creativity: The Power Of Drawing In Children's Literature, Tracy M. Hudgens
The Ideal Subject: Power, Discipline, and Technologies of the Self in American Psycho, Brian Lipscomb
Theatre Attendance: Media and Interpersonal Communication in Persuasion, Diana Ka Nelson
The Geography of Daffodils, Rosalie O'Leary
The Role of Fantasy Theme Chaining in Howard Dean's 2004 Democratic Presidential Primary Campaign, Benjamin Ryan Warner
Most Worthy of Interpretation: the Hermeneutics of Personal Perception and Communal Narration in Nathaniel Hawthorne's the Scarlet Letter, Patrick S. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Man-Made Constellations, Sara Burge
Park Bench in My Head, Joseph Cover
Accommodating the Learning Disabled Student: Building a Learning-Conducive Classroom in Postsecondary Writing Courses, Katherine G. Craft
The Cicada Summer, Ryan Crider
Transitory Season, Jami A. Frush
Battling Words: an Alternative Reading of C.S. Lewis' Til We Have Faces, Robert A. Griffith
Companions on the Journey: Symbolic Interaction in Helping Relationships and the Development of Spirituality For Young Adult Catholics, Mathew B. Herrman
The Ancestral Memory: George Orwell and the Defense of the Individual Conscience, Michael J. Horton
A Vision for the Future: A Religious Application of Symbolic Convergence Theory, Sam A. Mathews
Things That Send Women Running, Candice B. Richards
Girl Talk: A Multi-Genre Coming of Age, Leslie Richardson
Media Influence on the Political Decision Making of College Students Aged 18-25, David W. Schultz
Accepting the Unacceptable: Textual Accessibility in Baum's Oz Books, L'Engle's Time Quartet, and Rowling's Harry Potter Series, Melissa Smith
Separation That Autumn Way, Joshua Stroup
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Composing While Learning - Achieving While Writing: A Proposal For Process Teaching And Portfolio Assessment For Basic Writers At SMSU, Kelly E. Anthony
The Promise of Things to Come, Dan Cogell
Voicing Our Concerns and Being Heard: Social Service Employees' Communication Experiences of Crisis, Rachel M. Deibert
Green Ash, Kevin Drzakowski
English Theatre in Cairo, Egypt: Dialogue and Resistance, Jessica A. Franklin
The Fair Wind, Brandon Funk
What Shall I Answer?: The Interrogatives Of William Blake's Jerusalem, Luke V. Gibbs
Polka Dancing and Poppyseed Kolache: How Czech Families View Their Ethnic Identity, Kai M. Janovsky
Communicating Risks: an Exploration of Uncertainty and Satisfaction in Dentist-Patient Interaction, Timothy R. Jump
Recondite Reading: William Gaddis's Carpenter's Gothic and the Difficulties of Late Modernism, Andrew P. Karr
Personality and Collaboration in the College Composition Classroom, Jeffrey M. Krakow
A Sitting Army?: Narrative, Presence, and Persuasion in the America's Army Computer Game, Shawn Maxfield
Remodeling Beth, Ruth C. Schafer
Alluvion, Jenner T. Shaffer
Concepts Of Ethics In Public Relations Management: A Practitioner's Perspective, Stephen T. Smith
Manifold, Benjamin Strohmeyer
