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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Composition Theory"”.
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There and Back Again: Tolkien's Epic Writing and Revising Process Informs Composition Theory
… complex revision techniques that can inform composition theory—especially revision studies. Discussed are revision terms and their applications, several of Tolkien’s revisions and their significance, and textual genetics as a lens to better understand an author’s motivations and influences. …
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Delay composition theory: A reduction-based schedulability theory for distributed real-time systems
… systems. The main result is a simple delay composition rule, that computes a worst-case bound on the end-to-end delay of a job, given the computation times of all other jobs that execute concurrently with it in the system. This delay composition rule is first derived for pipelined …
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Language games and computer-aided composition
Wittgenstein's theory of the "language game" looks at the specific context in which language finds meaning. This theory significantly influences composition theory and practice within the problematic context of the computer-aided classroom, a much more complex and fast-paced environment than the …
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Taking a pedagogical turn: What happens when the student /teacher conference moves to the center of the basic writing course
… Other Language, classroom discourse analysis and composition theory. The study finds that the changes in the delivery methods of the course can benefit teachers, students, and the institution.</p>
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Teaching not knowing: Reflections on a writing practice
… (1994) proposes that the practice of teaching composition engages us in a process of "teaching not knowing." In this inquiry, I draw from theories in composition, psychology, epistemology, ethics, and communication to portray and describe this practice in my high school classroom. Studying my …
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Out With the Old, In With Revitalized Grammar Through Style-based Composition Pedagogy
<p>Composition theory has grappled with innumerable pedagogical approaches to grammar studies in the past, many of which yielded questionable results regarding improved clarity and effectiveness of student writing. Grammar is a primary component of spoken and written language; however, its teaching …
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Confidence, the Image of the Writer, and Digital Literacies: Exploring Writing Self-Efficacy in the College Classroom
… writing self-efficacy occupies in education and composition theory, as well as the factors affecting a person’s perceived writing efficacy. Additionally, the relationship between self-efficacy and new literacy (Lankshear and Knobel), a term used for twenty-first century forms of digital …
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These Things Will Change: Public Revision as a Feminist Rhetorical Strategy in Taylor Swift's Re-Recorded Albums
… feminist rhetorics, public writing, and revision/composition theory. In doing so, it advances knowledge on the understudied topic of effective feminist revision practices, while studying the rhetorical practices of one of the most visible, influential figures of (popular) culture today. This …
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Queering Composition and Identity: Moving Beyond Inclusion in Composition Classrooms and the Field
… formation within academic writing and beyond. Compositionists have attended to writers' subjectivities that hinge on race, gender, and class status; have studied ESL writers and returning adult learners; and have lauded individualist expression and urged examination of writers' acculturation. …
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Beyond "English language learner": Second language writers, academic literacy, and issues of identity in the United States high school
… framework derived from social identity theory and Ivanic's work on writing and identity, I explored how students negotiated their social identities as "English Language Learners" in academic settings and analyzed the impact of "ELL identity" in the development of their writing skills in …
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A New Freshman Composition Pedagogy for Christian Colleges and Universities
Freshman composition instructors at Christian institutions face a disturbing predicament: competing pedagogies, administrative pressure to prove freshman composition’s merit, public clamoring for greater return on the college investment, technology redefining what “writing” is, a postmodern …
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A comparison of thermodynamic models for the prediction of phase behavior in aqueous-polymer two-phase systems
… been expended in the area of polymer solution theory, the theory of why these systems exhibit this extraordinary two-phase behavior that characterizes them as viable liquid-liquid extraction systems for use with biologically-active molecules is not completely understood. A thermodynamic model …
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More than Words, More than Wounds: (Re)Writing 'Wounded' Women and Healing Pedagogies
… curricula. Contextualizing my claims within composition and pedagogical studies, I primarily draw on Nouwen’s “wounded healer” concept to develop a wounded healer pedagogy, merging the personal, creative, and spiritual and contending that links between trauma and writing fosters …
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Prolegomenon to a Neo-Kantian Student Heuristic
… order to prepare a text for college students in composition courses. It was to be a text designed to help students come to terms with some of the more perplexing problems of man's intellectual life by providing them with the means for understanding the structure of thought. As it stands now, …
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George Russell's Jazz Workshop: The Composer's Style and Original Methods of 1956
… to knowledge of George Russell’s musical compositions and illustrates the creative methods of his 1956 work for small jazz ensemble. This body of work consisted of twelve pieces for the RCA Victor album The Jazz Workshop: George Russell and His Smalltet and three pieces commissioned by …