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Direct linkHahn, Taylor Ward – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation conducts rhetorical criticism of the public controversy prompted by higher education reforms proposed by Texas Governor Rick Perry in his 2008 "Seven Breakthrough Solutions" packet and summit. The analysis begins by exploring "topoi," or commonplace arguments, raised during the argumentation between Perry and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Rhetoric, Persuasive Discourse
Peer reviewedWarren, James – American Secondary Education, 2013
Recent research on the college application essay has shown that essay prompts are misleading, and that the expectations of admissions officers remain largely implicit. These studies have not, however, examined how essays written by low-income, ethnic minority students are scored by admissions officers. For this study, forty-two seniors at a…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Admission, Essays, Urban Schools
PDF pending restorationMcMahan, Eva M. – 1973
The identification techniques in Herbert C. Kelman's schema of identification were used to analyze the near, and perhaps surprising, success of Rep. Frances (Sissy) Farenthold's bid for the Democratic Texas gubernatorial nomination in 1972. Opposing government corruption, Farenthold overcame the potential obstacles of being a politically liberal…
Descriptors: Elections, Identification (Psychology), Language Role, Language Usage
