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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"College Writing"”.
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Responsive Classroom Ecologies: Supporting Student Inquiry And Rhetorical Awareness In College Writing Courses
<p>This dissertation describes and analyzes the work of a semester-long teacher research study of inquiry-based and reflective teaching and learning strategies and their impact on students' preparation for future learning. I explore relevant scholarship on knowledge transfer, classroom ecologies, …
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Best Practice: Bringing the Elements of Effective Practice to the College Writing Classroom
<p>Studies of college writing students suggest that many students associate writing ability with innate talent rather than sustained, deliberate practice. As a result, these students may lack the motivation to improve their writing abilities, leading to a vicious cycle in which they come to …
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Effects of integrating cognitive apprenticeship instructional methods into the community college writing classroom
… instructional methods into community college writing instruction--a problem solving approach (see Flower, 1993; Flower & Hayes, 1980) using think aloud modeling (Collins, Brown, & Holum, 1991; Schoenfeld, 1985). Nine intact classes were randomly assigned to treatments and control …
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The Effectiveness of the Writing Workshop Model to Teach an English-as-a-Second-Language College Writing Course in Puerto Rico: a Look at Students' Outcomes
… was designed to look at the effectiveness of the Writing Workshop model in improving English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) college students' writing skills in a small liberal arts university in Puerto Rico.</p> <p><em>Method.</em> Students registered in two Intermediate English-as-a-Second-Language …
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DIVERSE COLLEGE WRITERS AND THE CONVERSATION ON ERROR AND STANDARDIZATION ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
… is a central concern in the increasingly diverse college composition classroom. Writing teachers who wish to prepare students for success in the disciplines, but do not wish to be gatekeepers or guardians of a privileged variety of English, face a dilemma. This dissertation points toward an …
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Word processing and the minority basic writer
… this study was to determine how the quality of writing of minority basic writers, their level of writing apprehension, and their evaluation of their first college writing course would be affected by: (a) the use or non use of word processing/text editing, (b) their initial level of writing …
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Teaching Visual Literacy and Document Design in First-Year Composition
… graphics to convey information. As teachers of writing, we need to study and understand these visually enhanced texts, because they have become the standard for communication in our society. Beyond this, we should learn how to teach students about visual literacy and document design so that they …
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Post-Literacy: Designing Writing Curricula around Emerging Literate Activities
My project, titled Post-Literacy: Designing Writing Curricula around Emerging Literate Activities, focuses on the integration of digital and multimodal literacies in first-year writing curricula. This dissertation situates itself among other scholarship in new literacies, such as the work of Gee, …
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Paper Conferences as Meaningful Feedback to Student Writing
… way to evaluate and provide feedback on student writing, and through meaningful evaluation, the writing process for secondary students could be more holistic, could better prepare students for college writing. This case study took place in a small eighth grade Language Arts/social studies …
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Baptism
… husband, worship leader, singer-songwriter, and college writing instructor, struggling to capture fragments of who I was before I was any of these things, and hoping to shed some light on how I came to be who I am today. If you need the entirety of the story, read no further. But if a few scenes …
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All Writers Welcome: An Exploratory Study of the Potential Value of Academic Writing Center and Adult Community-Based Literacy Center Partnerships
<p>Writing center practices have been widely accepted as beneficial for literacy development, especially given the ubiquitous nature of writing. However, many off-campus communities lack writing support as visible, organized, and well-documented as that available to those on-campus through writing …
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Living Pedagogy: Redesigning the First Year Writing Classroom
In this thesis the writing pedagogies of process, critical literacy, and multimodality are used as a framework for redesigning the physical layout and aesthetics of the first-year writing classroom. The idea of embracing a fully embodied ‘living’ pedagogy is also explored as a means to develop and …
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Voices From On High: Rhetorical Education in a Jewish Women's Writing Center
… education and institutional mission is the college writing center at YU's women's campus, Stern College for Women. This study defines rhetorical education as the way an institution authorizes written, spoken, and behavioral communication, with the goal of developing its students as civic …
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The Construction of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X in Composition Textbooks: Rereading Readers
… have written about the use of textbooks in writing courses, little attention is paid to how textbooks anthologize writers, especially women and people of color. This study examines the portrayal of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X in composition textbook anthologies known as …
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Reading and Religion: Reconciling Diverse Reading Patterns and the First Year Composition Classroom
… of the first-year composition classroom, the writing patterns and argumentation skills of self-identified Christian students often frustrate teachers and create classroom dissonance and interpersonal divergence. This work looks at what apologetic and devotional texts these students are reading …
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“Light shining from a dead star”: Narratology and Perspective in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History
… toward a specific view of his time at Hampden College, the university he attends in Vermont—one marked but not burdened by a murderous act that he and his companions commit against one of their own. The tension between the emotional lyricism of the text’s prose and the foundational, often …
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Grief (w)rites: Composing loss in the composition classroom
<p>This dissertation studies first-year college student essays about grief, loss and death. It begins with the author's own narrative of grief and moves on to explore the complications of revealing grief in an academic context, discussing the personal and political implications of doing so. The …
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Postmodern Feminist Pedagogy in a First-Year Writing Class
… or even a decade ago. Yet the pedagogy of college writing classrooms has been slow to reflect societal change. What contributions can feminist theory and postmodern theory make to the field of college composition? If specific elements of such theorizing are infused into a first year writing …
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"Who is 'you'?": teaching authentic approaches to audience and genre in first-year composition
… new and continually evolving language into their college writing, which, while it is indicative of the change in language processes, can be problematic. The impetus for this thesis developed through my experiences teaching first-year composition. Frustrated with the ambiguity of audience in …
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Teaching the biography of Peal S. Buck: developing collaborative reading strategies for multilingual writers
… English language learners face when reading college-level texts. This study sought to determine whether the use of collaboration would facilitate the learning of reading strategies and self-monitoring of reading skills.</p> <p>Ten students participated in this study, including nine …
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