Sample Theses

2007

Jonathan Ray LeMaster. “Bridging the Gap: A Critical Reading and Writing Guide.” Thesis Committee: Chair: Ellen Quandahl, Glen McClish, Ann Johns, Linguistics. Completed 2007.

Kellie Christine Sharp-Hoskins. “Subjects(s) Of/Subject To: Desire, Demand, and Seduction.” Thesis Committee: Chair: Richard Boyd, Glen McClish, and Valerie Renegar, Communication. Completed 2007.

Mary De Nora. “Rhetoric and Revelation: The Progressive Revelation of the Gospel and a Paradigm of Worship and Response, Gospel-Worship as the Incarnation in a Marriage of God and Man.” Theses committee: Chair: Richard Boyd, Glen McClish, and Steve Barbone, Philosophy. Completed 2007.

2005

Nancy Fox. “Reconstructing Dorothy: The ‘Eye’ Within the ‘I’ of Dorothy Wordsworth’s Gramsmere Journal.” Thesis Committee: Chair: Glen McClish, Richard Boyd, Bonnie Scott, Women’s Studies. Completed 2005.

Christine Gajoli. “Medical Marketing Websites: Rhetorics of an Emerging Genre.” Thesis Committee: Chair: Cezar Ornatowski, Linn Bekins, Rhetoric and Writing Studies, Sherry Little, English and Comparative Literature. Completed 2005.

2004

Hahn, Aaron David. “Foundation-Building and the Will to Truth in Composition Pedagogy: A Parodic Perspective.” Thesis Committee: Chair: Suzanne Bordelon, Jane E. Hindman, Valerie Renegar (School of Communication). Completed Fall 2004.

Natalie West. “An Examination of Messages to the Uncommitted by American Religious Groups.” Thesis Committee: Chair: Richard Boyd, Glen Mcclish, Rebecca Moore (Religious Studies). Completed Fall 2004.

Jessie Wooley. "Empowering Students and Teachers with Religious Worldviews in the Writing Classroom." Thesis Committee: Glen McClish (chair), Ellen Quandahl, Rebecca Moore (Religous Studies). (Fall 04).

Depalma, Michael-John. “Imagining Critical Pedagogy and Community-Based Service-Learning as an Approach to ‘Power Sharing’ and Public Action in Rhetoric and Composition Studies.” Thesis Committee: Chair: Suzanne Bordelon, Ellen Quandahl, and Patricia Geist-Martin (School of Communication). (Fall 2004).

Kristy Borman. “Rereading the Rules: A Feminist Reading of Dating Literature.” Chair: Richard Boyd. Thesis Committee: Suzanne Bordelon, Rhetoric and Writing Studies, Maria-Barbara Watson (Women’s Studies). Completed 2004.

Brown, Carrie Jeanne. “Craft, Metalsmithing, and Culture Industry: An Examination of Autonomous Art.” Thesis Committee: Chair: Richard Boyd, Jane E. Hindman. Completed Spring 2004.

2003

Carolyn Passig Jensen. "The Spiritual and Feminist Rhetoric of Hester Anne Rogers, an Early Methodist." Thesis Committee: Glen McClish, Chair, Suzanne Bordelon, Rebecca Moore (Department of Religious Studies), Bettina Pedersen (Department of Literature, Journalism, and Modern Languages, Point Loma Nazarene University). Completed Fall 2003.

Ann Tropeano. “Body Matters: An Examination of the Interface of Agency, the Body, and Discourse.” Thesis Committee: Jane E. Hindman, chair, Glen McClish, Valerie Renegar (School of Communication). Completed Fall 2003.

Anthony Burman. “Newbies in a New World: Theory, Design, and Analysis of an After-School Program for Refugee Youth.” Thesis committee: Cezar Ornatowski, chair, Richard Boyd, Njubi Nesbitt (Africana Studies). Completed Spring 2003.

Rene De Los Santos. “Normalizing Time: The Rhetoric of the Standard Time Debate.” Thesis Committee: Cezar Ornatowski, chair, Glen McClish, George Dionisopoulos (School of Communication). Completed Fall 2003.

2001

Suzanne Smith. “High-Tech Meets High Finance in Cyberspace: Rhetorical Strategies Used by Technology Companies to Communicate with Investors on the World Wide Web.” Thesis Committee: Cezar Ornatowski, chair, Jane E. Hindman, Sherry Little(English and Comparative Literature). Completed August 2001.

Little, Megan. “Intervening in the Closure of a Technological System; Rhetoric and E-learning Standardization.” Thesis Committee: Jane Robinett, chair, Chris Werry, Bernard Dodge (Instructional Technology). Completed December 2001.

Ellen Kirkpatrick. "The role of the scientific writer in the benefit-decision making process of a health insurance company." Thesis Committee: Linn Bekins, chair, Jane E. Hindman. Completed Fall 2001.