Category: Repository of dissertations
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Integrated management plan of water distribution systems: Forecasting approach (Yousefi, 2020)
Author Yousefi, P. Year 2020 Title Integrated management plan of water distribution systems : forecasting approach University University of British Columbia Discipline (uncoded) Civil Engineering Macrostructure Hybrid Simple/ Manuscript Proposed Area of Unconventionality(Tardy, 2016) Linguistic & Textual form Description and other notes Incorporates published elements without necessarily presenting them in separate chapters. Follows a modifed…
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My Gothic dissertation: A podcast (Williams, 2019)
Written component mainly functions as the institutional copy (i.e., a record) and is not the dissertation. The dissertation (podcast series), according to the author, is meant for the ears (e.g., to be heard) rather than the eyes (e.g., versus being read).
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Practising life writing: teaching through vulnerability, discomfort, mindfulness, and compassion (Watt, 2016)
Incorporates different forms of ‘life writing’ (“theoretical and analytical introductions, letter writing, journal pieces, comics, photos, poetry, creative non-fiction, collages, scenes from a play, and an alphabet book,” from Abstract). These multimodal peices are “worked examples” of “contemplative practices and pedagogical praxis” (Abs).
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The “Objectivists”: A Website Dedicated to the “Objectivist” Poets (Wagstaff, 2018)
Institutional copy is print analogue of a public facing website that includes interactive and multimedia material. Website also includes archived material that was digitized as part of the dissertation project. The written component/institutional copy seems to function separately from the website. Interestingly, it was difficult to locate a link to the website in the written…
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How can you love a work, if you don’t know it?”: Critical code and design toward participatory digital editions (Visconti, 2015)
Author Visconti, A. Year 2015 Title “How can you love a work, if you don’t know it?”: Critical code and design toward participatory digital editions University University of Maryland Discipline (uncoded) English Macrostructure Unclear. Portfolio-based? Proposed Area of Unconventionality(Tardy, 2016) Modality, Linguistic and textual form, content, practice, rhetorical aims & strategies (?) Description and other…
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Valentine (2017)
Author Valentine, A.J. Year 2017 Title Good Looking in the Dark: A Narrative Across Three Mediums University Western Michighan University Discipline (uncoded) English Macrostructure Unclear Proposed Area of Unconventionality(Tardy, 2016) Linguistic and textual forms, Modality, Practice, Rhetorical aims and strategies (??) Description and other notes Uses different mediums (short story, stage play, graphic narrative) to…
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Tran (2019)
Author Tran, A, Year 2019 Title Multimodal Dissertations: Opportunities for Multimodality in Higher Education University University of Western Ontario Discipline (uncoded) Education Macrostructure Traditional-Simple Proposed Area of Unconventionality(Tardy, 2016) Practice, Modality, Rhetorical aims and strategies (??), Linguistic & textual form Description and other notes Dissertation is presented in landscape mode, incorporates infographs, illustrations, hyperlinks, and…
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Borgo Ton (2019)
Author Ton, Mary Elizabeth Borgo Year 2019 Title Shining Lights: Magic Lanterns and the Missionary Movement, 1839—1868 University Indiana University Discipline (uncoded) English Macrostructure Unclear Proposed Area of Unconventionality(Tardy, 2016) Linguistic and textual forms, modality, practice, content. Description and other notes Digital dissertation using Scalar. Case studies focused on ‘magic lantern shows.’ Website includes mix…
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Stewart (2015)
Author Stewart, P. Year 2015 Title Indigenous Architecture through Indigenous Knowledge : Dim sagalts’apkw nisim̓ [Together we will build a village] University University of British Columbia Discipline (uncoded) Educational Studies, Curriculum Studies and Architecture Macrostructure Analogous to topic-based Proposed Area of Unconventionality(Tardy, 2016) Modality, Rhetorical aims and strategies, Linguistic & textual form Description and other…
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Unflattening: A visual-verbal inquiry into learning in many dimensions (Sousanis, 2014/2015)
Sousanis makes use of comics to argue for the value of this form as both a method of inquiry, pedagogical tool, and way of knowing. Learn more about this and the odd request Sousanis received to include a list of figures.
