- Academic advising at a satellite campus of a large multi-campus university: a qualitative case study using systems theory constructs
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The purpose of this study is, through a systems perspective, to examine and describe the functions, purposes, and identity of a university advising system comparing the ideals espoused by advisors and administrators to actual practice at a satellite campus of a large public multi-campus university. Data were collected via semi-structured interviews and publically available university documents. The product of this qualitative study is a rich description of the academic advising system at Mid-...
Sean Thomas Bridgen.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Helterbran, Valeri Committee members: Amber Racchini; Jennifer Rotigel.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English
- Academic literacy and discourse socialization of seven multilinguals in a research seminar course in a japanese university
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This study examines academic literacy socialization and the construction of academic identities by seven multilingual students in a mandatory research seminar course in a Japanese university. The main purpose of this research is to explore how the students attempt to engage in the development of academic literacy using the English scholarly texts and construct their academic identities. In order to explore academic discourse socialization and identity construction of the research particip...
Yutaka Fujieda.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Park, Gloria Committee members: Sharon Deckert; Lilia Savova.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English
- Aesthetic plagiarism and its metaphors in the writings of poe, melville, and wilde
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In this dissertation, I address the tension in identifying plagiarism in the texts of canonical authors. Because plagiarism is a compositional act of unattributed repetition as well as a censure, there is both something fully appropriate, and something crucially inaccurate, in calling what respected authors such as Melville and Wilde do "plagiarism." I argue that this problem can be resolved by understanding some instances of plagiarism as evoking conceptual metaphors as an aesthetically-moti...
Sandra M Leonard.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kuipers, Christopher Committee members: James Cahalan; David Downing; Kenneth Sherwood.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English
- American orientalism: a study of ethnic american literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
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My dissertation is primarily conceived as an application of Edward Said's theory of Orientalism to the study of American ethnic writers' "writing back" in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This historical period witnessed a dramatic change of American society and a rise of the US global power. It was also marked as a period of Orientalism with its exoticism, subjugation, and condescension. Set in this historical context, I argue that the American literature in the late nineteen...
Xiaodong Liu.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Thompson, Todd Committee members: David Downing; Tanya Heflin.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English
- Analysis of employment-related social policies that seek to increase the economic security of america's migrant and seasonal farmworkers
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Research on migrant and seasonal farmworkers have outlined several broad themes for this population: these workers have high levels of poverty and transiency, poor health and living conditions, suffer from food insecurity, have poor English speaking and writing skills, lack education, and, are isolated from the general population due to the nature of their jobs in the rural agricultural sector as well as cultural barriers. Federal employment-related anti-poverty policies have been create...
Sukanya Mukherjee.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Heasley, Robert Committee members: Valerie Gunter; J. Beth Mabry.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English
- Analysis of factors that influence use of learning management systems by pennsylvania rural school districts
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The purpose of this study was to explore the factors that influence administrators in three rural Pennsylvania school districts to continue using a Moodle learning management system (LMS) and discover teacher perceptions and other factors that affect the use of Moodle in these school districts. Using a mixed explanatory design, the researcher determined that teachers' opinions on why a school district subscribes to an LMS or how successful a school district is in meeting its goals for usi...
Derek S Jones.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Lenze, James S. Committee members: Nurhaya Muchtar; Jay Start.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English
- Androgynous content: gender-inclusive language in qur'anic arabic and egyptian arabic
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Nestled in a conceptual grid, the current linguistic study investigates gender-inclusive language in Qur'anic Arabic (QA), the Arabic variety of the Qur'an, the Book of Islam, and Egyptian Arabic (EA), the most ubiquitous variety of Arabic. As far as QA is concerned, the study seeks to offer an understanding of some controversial verses that have, in certain cases, been interpreted with a female-marginalizing patriarchal lens or with an extreme feminist lens, and, so, resulted in women's subj...
Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Deckert, Sharon K. Committee members: Waleed Farag; Gian Pagnucci.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English
- Aristotle, the sublime, and quantum rhetoric: new approaches to understanding the fiction writing process
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Aristotle, the Sublime, and Quantum Rhetoric: New Approaches to Understanding the Fiction Writing Process traces the effects of classical rhetoric and the sublime on the lore of fiction writing and then offers an alternative approach to that model. One element of fiction writing lore I discuss is the pervasive belief that part of creative writing can be taught while part cannot. I argue craft is part of what is believed teachable, and I claim that belief originated with Aristotle's Poetics . ...
Mitchell R James.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Bizzaro, Patrick Committee members: Chauna Craig; Resa Crane Bizzaro.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English
- The author who lived: charles dickens, j. k. rowling, their fans, and their characters
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This study of two of the most prominent popular novelists of the past two centuries explores the connections among Charles Dickens's and J. K. Rowling's authorial identities, their relationships with their readers (specifically, fans), and their affection for their characters. The opening chapter introduces the dissertation and surveys key theories of authorship, reader response, and fandom. Chapter Two examines Dickens's developing authorial identity as he began to use number-plans to ga...
Tess R Stockslager.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kuipers, Christopher M. Committee members: Christopher Orchard; Thomas Slater.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English
- A bakhtinian approach to (re)visioning heroic rhetoric in medical discourse
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Medical discourse allows physicians to communicate technical information with one another about patients' illnesses; however, the use of medical discourse to communicate with patients may provide patients with unsatisfactory information about their illnesses. In the physician-patient relationship, physicians often have more power than patients because of their preferred membership within the medical discourse community-a membership to which most ordinary patients are not privy. A rhetorical m...
Gillian Mary Collie.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Bizzaro, Resa Crane Committee members: Patrick Bizzaro; Sharon Deckert; Gian Pagnucci; Donna Souder Hodge.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English
- Belief and an act of will: hopeful writing theory for the composition course
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This dissertation asks can writing be taught in such a way as to encourage hope? This dissertation encourages writing teachers to keep hope in mind as they interact with students, craft pedagogical approaches for teaching writing, and when designing writing programs. It rests on the belief that by making a hopeful pedagogy, writing teachers will, in turn, inspire a more hopeful future for society. Using narrative inquiry, the dissertation merges story telling with theoretical research from th...
Brian Fotinakes.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hurlbert, Claude Mark Committee members: Gian Pagnucci; Gloria Park.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English
- Beyond visible cities: avant-garde actions and the materialized word in twenty-first-century new york city
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"Beyond Visible Cities" investigates instances of 20th/21st century activist interventions in language, focusing on a group of activists that derive a particular force from the intersection of visual and verbal structures. I refer to this set of compositions as "materialized words," or "materialized language," which I define as a convergence of visual manipulation and language function that consciously interrupts the viewer's processes of signification. Materialized language, as opposed to ...
Dominique Ficalora.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Sell, Michael; Sherwood, Kenneth Committee members: Tom Slater.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English
- "brave the stigma manfully": examining professionalism, singleness, and femininity in mid-victorian heroines
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In this dissertation I examine how Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847), Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Geraldine Jewsbury's The Half Sisters (1848), and Dinah Craik's Olive (1850) represent the professional endeavors of single women who needed to provide for themselves and/or their families. I argue that these novels illustrate an understanding of the growing need for women to professionalize and were therefore advocating for a revised understanding of the domestic ideal,...
Andrea J Martino-Harms.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Orchard, Christopher Committee members: Chauna Craig; Todd Thompson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English
- Breaking down barriers for low income and first generation college bound students: a case study of five college access programs
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The primary motivation for this case study was to uncover the practices college access advisers use to affect students' aspirations and matriculation into colleges and universities. The study also analyzed how these practices affected the overall culture of the school. This study further considered the interactions of college access advisers with their students in a school serving a predominately low-income student population. The effectiveness of the college access programs on the overall ...
Jennifer J Damico.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Bieger, George R. Committee members: Shirley Johnson; Susan Sibert.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English
- Bring your own device: a case study of a 10th grade byod program in a rural pennsylvania school district
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Education in the 21st century is a world of constant change with stakeholders facing many unknowns. Today's schools are struggling to prepare students for careers that have not yet been created in a financially sound manner. Implemented Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs have offered a solution to these problems by empowering students and teachers to utilize technology in a way which they are already familiar. This case study was conducted in a school district in Pennsylvania in an atte...
Donna M Carey.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Lare, Douglas Committee members: Susan Fello; Craig Wilson.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English
- Brothers in the struggle: a phenomenological study of white male college student development as social justice allies
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Leaders in higher education understand that exposure to diversity in America's colleges and universities is essential to the preparation of all students to live and work within culturally diverse contexts post-graduation. However, White males in colleges and universities are least likely to engage with diversity in college (Cabrera, 2014) and often resist social justice education experiences (Boatright-Horowitz & Soeung, 2009; Mildred & Zuniga, 2004; Watt, 2007; Whitehead & Wittig, 2004). Th...
Jr McKnight John F.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Bieger, George; Smeaton, Patricia S. Committee members: Christopher Brooks; Douglas Lare.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English
- "but where can we draw water?" ideology, myth, and legend in twentieth-century irish literature
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This analysis of Irish literature from the late nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century focuses, by employing Marxist theory, on the ideologies reflected in the adaptation of myth and legend. It traces the development of Irish society's various adaptations as it moves from an English colony to an independent state. After my preface outlining the dissertation, there are two introductory chapters: Chapter 1 examines relevant Irish history and Chapter 2 advances Marxist and po...
Matthew P Ayres.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Yang, Lingyan Committee members: James Cahalan; David Downing; Christopher Kuipers.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English
- Captivating culture and composition: life writing, storytelling, folklore, and heritage literacy connections to first-year composition
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This dissertation serves as a gathering place for the disparate strands of life writing, storytelling, folklore, and heritage literacy as they can or cannot be applied to composition courses, especially the first-year composition class. A wealth of knowledge surrounds students that could be used for research and essay material, yet students' background knowledge can be disparaged. In addition, interdisciplinary information may be limited by discipline boundaries or discipline-specific confere...
Jennifer O Curtis.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Bizzaro, Patrick A. Committee members: Laurel Black; James Kirkland.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English
- A case study describing how servant leadership attributes impact superintendent longevity and leadership styles
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In an era denoted by increased accountability, mandated reporting, and constant public scrutiny, the workload and pressures for the superintendent is daunting. As a result of these pressures, an apprehension regarding superintendent longevity and the number of available superintendent candidates has become a growing concern This study utilizes a case study approach to examine six long-serving superintendents that have been identified as a servant leaders and have served as superintendent in t...
David Lehman.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Marcoline, Joseph F. Committee members: Valeri Helterbran; Sue Rieg.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English
- A case study of teaching principals, "administrators with class", examining the perceptions of administrators and teachers
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Administrators are continually involved in trying to enhance learning within their schools. With new requirements regarding teaching observations and the implementation of Common Core standards, school administrators are being asked to take on a new set of administrative tasks. One important task of principals is to be directly involved in classroom instructional practices and increase their influence as instructional leaders. This case study examined how principals and teachers in a suburb...
Karl Richard Scheibenhofer.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Lare, Douglas; Millward, Robert Committee members: Angelo Senese; Patricia Smeaton.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English