Placement History

We have been very successful placing graduate students in the kind of
jobs they want – nearly 100%. Some of the schools we have placed
graduates in are: Penn State University, Clarkson University, Chico
State University, New Mexico State University, Utah State University
(Logan), Villanova University, and Northern Illinois University.

Development Seminars

Professional development starts with our proseminar (HU 5001), in
which you begin to learn the details of institutional and programmatic
life: how to succeed as a graduate student, what is expected of you
professionally, and what you can expect.

Throughout the year we also have focused sessions and intensive
mentoring on preparation for the job market. This includes writing a
teaching philosophy and putting a teaching portfolio together,
researching and reading job advertisements and schools, as well as
feedback workshops on C.V.'s, letters of application, and mock
interviews.

List of sample Master's projects and Ph.D. dissertations

Masters (Theses, Projects, and Coursework Papers)

Making Our Mark @ MTU: An Analysis of Unexpected Audience Response

The Sin of Milk: The Rhetoric of Dairy Production and Consumption

New Perspectives on Maps and Centralized Command and Control in the Military

Shifting Models of Literacy, Pedagogical Implications, and UN 2001

Why Tolerance Isn't Enough: The Historical Development of Tolerance
and Its Role in Conversations about Difference in American Education

Women's Online Weight Loss Narratives: Controlling Gendered Space

Topics in Media & Video Gaming as a Cultural Practice

Situating New Media Texts: A Practical and Systematic Approach to
the Rhetorical Situation and Usability Testing

Teaching Visual Design Online: Pilot Exploratory Study

Situated Mentoring: Contexts, Relationships, and Change in Teacher Preparation

Designing a Usable Interface: An On-Line Learning Module for Robo-Help

Catching Up With the Future: A User-Centered Study of ECAC
(Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum Workshop) Toward a
Redesigned Model

Instant Messaging as a New Media Authorship Tool in Composition Classrooms

More Than Meets The Eye: Postmodern Rhetoric as a Means of Shedding
New Light on the Political Cartoon

Planning A Walkable Community: Communication in the Public Sphere

In the Shadow of the Smoke Stack: Why I Acquired a Working Class
Model of Learning in the Copper Country

Breaking the Racial Codes in the Army Officer Evaluation System

But Words Will Never Hurt Me?: Perceptions of Barriers Encountered by
U.P. Women Students at Michigan Tech

An Ideological Coaching Perspective: Examining the Pedagogical Shift
in the MTU Writing Center & its Effects on Coaching

Ph.D.

Situating the Design and Use of Institutional Documents in
Psychotherapeutic Discourse: Issues of usability, Framing of Power,
and Resistance to Power

Unobtrusive Control and the Exercise of Freedom in Organizational
Discourse: The Construction of Middle Managerial Subjectivity in
Higher Education

A Perpetual Peace: American Indian Treaties and the Environment
Mapping Addiction

Composing in Multiple Dimensions: Understanding Research and
Production Practices in Web-based Multimedia Development

Uncertain Respect: Literacy Practices, Identity Negotiations, and
the Teaching of Composition

Beyond the Laments, Beyond the Boundaries: Communicating about Composition

Knowledge-as-Inscribed: Writing Instrumentality and Functional Literacy

Narrative Ways of Knowing: Re-Imagining Technical Communication Instruction

Academic Preparation for Engineering Workplace Writing: Study Results
and Implications for Technical Writing and Engineering Academics

Rewriting the History of Women and Computers: Powerful Moments,
Situated Actions, Emerging Identities

Practicing our Preaching: Rhetoric and Technical Communication in
American Forestry Discourse, 1905-54

Affect Matters: Agency and Desire in Pedagogy

"Ya Vez Como Son?/ You See How They Are?": An Investigation of
Cultural and Social Assumptions that Undermine Literacy Education

A Rhetoric of Deliberative Decision-Making: The Rhetorical Situation
in Global Climate Change Hearings

When "a soda fountain orgy may mean death": Diabetes education and
the rhetorics of compliance and responsibility

The Function of Rhetorical Attractors in Environmental Arguments

Praxis: The Post-Mortem(ed) Classroom: An Autopsy of the Invention of Learning