Thesis Proposals

Examples of thesis proposals approved by the Graduate Committee are included here in PDF format.

Bound copies of theses completed in the M.A. in English Composition program are housed in the English Department office (UH 334), and are available there for review; copies of theses can be checked out from the Pfau Library. A

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Concentration	Title	Thesis Completed	Author
Composition	Black and White and Read All Over: Racial Narratives in the O.J. Simpson Murder Trial	Fall 2006	Martin Lastrapes
Composition	EverQuest, Reality, and Postmodern Theories of Community	Spring 2007	Brian Bailie
Composition	The Habermas/Foucault Debate and its Implications for Rhetoric and Composition	Spring 2007	Fiona Harris-Ramsby
Literature	Rhetorical And Narrative Structures In Hersey’s Hiroshima: How They Breathe Life Into The Tale Of A Doomed City	Spring 2004	James Smart
Literature	“We Should be Like Water, Choosing the Lowest Place Which All Others Avoid": John Steinbeck as a Modern Messenger of Lao-Tzu’s Tao Te Ching	Fall 2005	Andrea Hammock
Literature	In Search of “No Place”: Exploring the Paradoxical Dimensions of Thomas More’s Utopia	Spring 2006	Davina Padgett
TESL	Electronic Translators in the ESL Writing Class	Spring 2005	Becky Rudd
TESL	Authentic Materials in ESL Conversation Instruction	Winter 2005	Xiangmei Zhang
TESL	A Comparative Study of Book Reviews in Thai & English	Spring 06	Prach Aowsakorn
Comp/Lit (dual)	The Uses of Sight in Nature Writing	June 2005	John Garcia
Comp/TESL (dual)	Evolving Outcomes of the WPA Outcomes Statement	June 2006	Judy Holiday