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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Composition and Rhetoric"”.
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Yogic Agency: The Yoga in Composition and Rhetoric
… among others. This trend includes the university and pedagogies of first year writing. The application of Eastern contemplative practice helps some people in certain circumstances, but its use raises questions. In the university classroom, methods like mindfulness meditation and yoga may offer …
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Expanding the Boundaries: The Value of Composition and Rhetoric Studies in Professional Writing
Composition and rhetoric.
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The Politics of Language and Writing: Multiculturalism and Other Socially Constructed Issues in the College Composition Classroom
The premise of my thesis is that composition and rhetoric has been politicized by socially constructed issues such as race, culture, class, economics, gender, sexual orientation, and so on. Composition and rhetoric have also been politicized by the traditional definition of politics--the notion of …
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A Rhetoric of Fields: Orientationalist and Enactive Essays for Writing Studies
… increasingly come to be used as a synonym for “Composition and Rhetoric.” Analyzing the orientational and disorientational significance of assuming both synonymy and distinction between the two, I argue for a methodological enactment of Writing Studies as a distinct but deeply entailed field and …
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Expressive Writing: A Technique for Improving Communication in Individuals with Autism and Related Disorders
… expressive writing approaches in psychology and composition and rhetoric, followed by an overview of symptoms and treatments of autism, Asperger's Syndrome, and ReH Syndrome. A series of graduated expressive writing exercises is proposed to facilitate communication in individuals with autism …
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Political Emotions: Toward a Fresh Perspective on Collective Emotion in Composition Work
… contentious discourse in order to better understand the implications for teachers and students in composition classrooms where critical pedagogical practices lead to contentious political work. I suggest that partly as a result of the social and political turn in composition studies, the …
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MAPW Portfolio
… of artifacts crafted in my concentration and two support areas. A short story, stage play, and screen play represent the creative writing concentration. Blog post and kinetic poetry correspond with the support areas of applied writing and composition and rhetoric. My view and voice are …
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Hermeneutics of Residue: Archival Slime and Queer Literacy
<p><em>Hermeneutics of Residue: Archival Slime and Queer Literacy</em> spans the fields of composition and rhetoric, literacy studies, archival studies, and queer theory. Deploying unconventional archival texts such as public graffiti, self-published zines, and underground manuals, this project …
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The Subject of Voice: The Object of Rhetoric
<p>Rhetoric and composition's turn away from voice as a critical term stems, in no small part, from its association with expressivist pedagogies. Current questions and concerns about subjectivity, invention, materiality, and ideology, among others, have moved the discussions away from expressivism …
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Approaching Review: A Heuristic Assisting Scholars Navigating the Publication of Multimodal and Open-Access Webtexts within the Tenure and Promotion Review Process
… capstone navigates the changing procedures and expectations of scholarly publishing within English Studies, focusing on the new mediums of digitally born scholarship and open-access scholarship. It does this by presenting a heuristic through which scholars can weigh various options for …
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Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacies in Architecture Studio Classes
… investigates the multimodal literacy practices and rhetorical strategies of undergraduate architecture students and studio professors in the first-year, third-year, and fifth-year studio classes of a five-year B. Arch. program. As they assume the disciplinary identity of architects, students …
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An Initial Exploration of the Undergraduate English Major Curricula Issued by the 2000-2001 Member Schools of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
… of the 2000-2001 Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU), describing their nature and state and discerning evidence of Christian thought.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>Stewart’s (1989) Modified Categories of English Majors and Eisner’s (1991) education criticism provided frameworks to …
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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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English—only when necessary: literacy practices of Korean undergraduate students at a 'global' university
… primarily aiming to enhance assimilation and acculturation into the U.S. academic disciplines, not many studies have looked beyond the pedagogical/instructional aspects within classroom settings. Under labels such as ""international students,"" ""ESL learners,"" or just ""foreigners,"" the …
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The Rhetoric* of Writing Assessment
The Rhetoric* of Writing Assessment uses strategic variations of rhetorical theory to reimagine writing assessment's complicated disciplinary past and rethink its foundational concepts through its multifaceted rhetorical situatedness. Although scholars such as Bob Broad, Brian Huot, Patricia Lynne, …
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Not Appropriate for Children: A Look At the Composition Practices and Rhetorical Strategies of Single Moms in Academia
… locations, academic ranks, disciplines, and identities build support systems and draw on rhetorical strategies derived from their embodied knowledge to survive and navigate in academia. Single mother experiences are underrepresented in scholarship about parenting in higher education. This …
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Writing and the Internationalization of U.S. Higher Education: The Roles of Ideology, Administration, and the Institution
<p>In this dissertation,Writing and the Internationalization of U.S. Higher Education: The Roles of Ideology, Administration, and the Institution, I examine one private institution, Syracuse University, for how it has approached internationalization (both currently and in historical efforts), how …
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Assessing the Cyborg Center: Assemblage-Based, Feminist Frameworks Toward Socially Just Writing Center Assessments
… by making connections among assemblage theory and materialism, studies of ecological and anti-racist assessments, and studies of writing center work, to ground theoretical conversations in everyday practices. Focusing on systemic oppression in the neoliberal university and consciously using …