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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Composition instruction"”.
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The Impact of Teachers’ Roles as Boundary Crossers and Boundary Objects in Post- COVID Composition Instruction
… technology integration and its influence on composition instruction and cognitive load in physical, digital, and hybrid spaces. Grounded in theories of boundary crossing and the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning, the study conceptualized teachers as both boundary crossers, navigating …
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An investigation of creative potential in high school musicians: recognizing, promoting, and assessing creative ability through music composition
… and teacher perceptions regarding creativity, composition, and its assessment possibilities were investigated using mixed-method techniques in two differing high school music programs. A Talented Music Program, providing accelerated instruction to gifted musicians (with composition instruction) …
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The Progymnasmata: New/Old Ways to Teach Reading, Writing, and Thinking in Secondary Schools
… past for answers to modern dilemmas in composition teaching. Several textbooks have been published that focus their teaching of college composition on the classical tradition. While the movement to revitalize classical rhetoric is gaining strength in universities, however, the benefits …
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Educating for Democracy: Reviving Rhetoric in the General Education Curriculum
… and relationships among education, rhetoric, and composition instruction, this thesis highlights the purpose of education and the role of writing instruction and rhetoric in accomplishing that purpose. This review demonstrates that the introductory composition course, when informed by epistemic …
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Re-Imagining Invention (post)pedagogy From Ulmer's Electracy To Design
… traces the development of notable strands of composition pedagogy first crafted by Gregory Ulmer in his 1984 Applied Grammatology that continue to the present day, and groups them together in how they are incorporating multimodal tools in writing instruction that demand innovation 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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Decentering the writing program archive: How composition instructors save and share their teaching materials
… on instructors’ digital archives. Artifacts of composition instruction are no longer saved to print archives alone; rather, digital technologies expand the locations where artifacts of writing pedagogy can be archived and accessed. The following archival ethnography, focused on a community …
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Breaking the Bubble: Exploring How Filter Bubbles Shape Critical Thinking in Community College English Composition
… students critical thinking within First-Year Composition (FYC) courses in a community college. Because writing and research now occur in algorithmically curated spaces, understanding their influence on students’ writing practices is essential to composition instruction. While FYC courses tend …
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"""Writing teachers must write"": tracing trajectories of teacher participation across professional and everyday practices"
… writing practices shapes their writing instruction. To date, most research on teacher practice has been limited to institutional settings like classrooms, pre-service education settings, and professional development sites. This dissertation broadens the study of teacher practice by …
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Writer with more at stake : returning adults in the freshman composition classroom
… required to take two or three terms of freshman composition. Although returning students may be apprehensive at first, their teachers report that many are highly motivated and perform successfully in these required writing courses. To investigate this phenomenon, I studied the attitude and …
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Instructor Views about the Use of Technology in Teaching ESL Writing at the University Level
… and learning of ESL writing occurs. In ESL composition courses at the university level, technology as a pedagogical tool has become common among instructors and the use of technology in ESL composition instruction seems to be becoming the norm. The purposes of the present study were to …
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SCHOOLED: Hiphop Composition at the Predominantly White University
… higher-educational contexts, specifically in composition classrooms. Using ethnographic, autoethnographic, and historical methods, it finds that hiphop’s work in composition classrooms at PWIs is contradictory. This mixed-methods investigation suggests that the contradictory relation of white …
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"I‘ll get by with a little help from my friends": peer response groups in the composition classroom.
Peer response groups in the composition classroom have become a standard part of the writing process for many teachers. However, some teachers maintain that the results of peer response groups are uneven at best, noting that students do not stay on task or that the quality of the student response …