Ph. D. Graduates and Dissertations for 1995 to 1999

1999:

Cauthen, Cramer "Randy" R.: Threshold Questions: An Ethnography of a Beginning Legal Writing Course, Defended 5/10/99, Director: Brian Huot, Degree 8/99.

Goodwill, Sanoma I.: Revision Processes of Upper-Division Undergraduates in Three Content Courses, Defended 5/13/99, Director: Dennis Hall, Degree 8/99.

1998:

Butsch, Pamela: Revitalizing Basic Writing With a Pedagogy of Play, Defended 11/17/98, Director: Julia Dietrich, Degree 12/98.

Cox, Gary: An Investigation of the Historical Warrants for the Oral/Literate Paradigm, Defended 4/29/98, Director: Mary Ellen Rickey, Degree 5/98.

Egginton, Wynn: The Negotiation of Authority in "Empowering" Classrooms: Case Studies of composition Instructors, Defended 3/5/98, Director: Julia Dietrich, Degree 5/98.

Harper, Todd: Revolution or Colonialism: The Role of English Studies in the Writing Across the Curriculum Movement, Defended 8/28/98, Director: Brian Huot, Degree 8/98.

Kreth, Melinda: Writing, Learning, and Persuading: The Experiences of Women Engineering Co-op Students., Defended 7/15/98, Director: Debra Journet, Degree 8/98.

Mathison-Fife, Jane: Writing, Cultural Critique and Rhetorical Positioning in a First-Year Composition Class, Defended 7/27/98, Director: Debra Journet, Degree 8/98.

Moore, Cynthia L.: Re-Writing the Academy: Issues of Voice, Identity, and Authority in the Feminist Composition Classroom, Defended 6/8/98, Director: Julia Dietrich, Degree 8/98.

O'Neill, Peggy A.: Writing Assessment and the Disciplinary Formation of Composition, Defended 7/23/98, Director: Brian Huot, Degree 8/98.

Payne, Scott: Student Writers and Audience Heteroglossia in the First-Year Classroom, Defended 8/21/98, Director: Debra Journet, Degree 8/98.

Pfeffer, Carole: Conceptions/Definitions of Literacy in Secondary Teacher Education for English Majors: A Case Study, Defended 6/26/98, Director: Brian Huot, Degree 8/98.

Sewell, Lauren: First-Year Teaching Assistants and the Web of Authority Negotiation, Defended 8/20/98, Director: Debra Journet, Degree 8/98.

1997:

El Rouaiheb, Diane: Argumentation as Self-Negotiation: (Re)considering Argument for the Feminist Classroom, Defended 11/7/97, Director: Julia Dietrich, Degree 12/97.

Johnson, Thomas R.: Composing Pleasure, Defended 1/24/97, Director: Thomas Byers, Degree 5/97.

McEachern, Robert W.: Grantwriting in an Arts Organization: A Sociocognitive Inquiry, Defended 5/7/97, Director: Hildy Miller, Degree 5/97.

Wu, Ruoyi: Genre/Culture Relations: Self Presentation in Autobiographical Writing of ESL Students, Defended 5/14/97, Director: Hildy Miller, Degree 12/97.

1996:

Conway, Glenda: Discourse in the Judicial Opinion: A Bakhtinian Approach to Voice and Ideology in U.S. Supreme Court Opinions, Defended 6/28/96, Director: Debra Journet, Degree 8/16/96.

Lloyd, Keith S.: Argument, Logic, and Reasoning: Implications Within Toulmin's Model and Feminist Understandings, Defended 7/15/96, Director: Julia Dietrich, Degree 8/16/96.

Young, Sandra G.: Nursing Students and Creative Writing, Defended 5/8/96, Director: Dennis Hall, Degree 5/96.

1995:

Callahan, Susan F.: State Mandated Writing Portfolios and Accountability: An Ethnographic and Case Study of One High School English Department, Defended 7/11/95, Director: Brian Huot, Degree 8/18/95.

Davis, Frank A.: A Study in Global Coherence for the Teacher of Composition, Defended 11/4/94, Director: Dennis Hall, Degree 8/18/95.

Detweiler, Jane A.: Narrative Rhetorics: 'Storied' Inquiry and Research Identity in Naturalistic Studies, Defended 12/95, Director: Debra Journet, Degree 12/95.

Edwards, Lynnell Major: Ethos, Resistance and Writing: Student Authority in the Multicultural Classroom, Defended 4/7/95, Director: Debra Journet, Degree 5/13/95.

Richmond, Michael D.: Isocrates' Panegyricus and the Argument of Poverty and War, Defended 2/10/95, Director: Thomas Van, Degree 5/13/95.

Strain, Margaret M.: Toward a Historiography of Composition, 1960 - 1970, Defended 8/9/95, Director: Debra Journet, Degree 8/18/95.