Thesis Proposal Sample Archive

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.

**Sample Thesis Proposals**
Concentration	Title	Thesis Completed	Author
Composition	Visual Argument: Conflicting Collective Voices	2011	Veronica Miranda
Composition	Cyborg Rhetoric and Revelation of Self: Identity, Writing, and the Instantiation of the Cyborg in Digital Texts	2011	Thomas Cho
Composition	The Habermas/Foucault Debate and its Implications for Rhetoric and Composition	2007	Fiona Harris-Ramsby

Literature	American Society’s Fear of Mortality: Reflections in Short Horror Fiction, 1950s-present	2010	Mona Syed
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	2005	Andrea Hammock
Literature	In Search of "No Place": Exploring the Paradoxical Dimensions of Thomas More's Utopia	2006	Davina Padgett

TESL	Electronic Translators in the ESL Writing Class	2005	Becky Rudd
TESL	WHATever	2012	Pamela Wahler
TESL	U.S. Mainland Speakers’ Use of Hawaiian Creole English and Standard American English Across Social Situations	2006	Nicole Kanahele Stutz

Comp/Lit (dual)	The Uses of Sight in Nature Writing	2005	John Garcia
Comp/TESL (dual)	Evolving Outcomes of the WPA Outcomes Statement	2006	Judy Holiday