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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"English Studies"”.
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THE LITERACIES OF LITERARY TEXTS: RHETORICAL BRIDGES BETWEEN ENGLISH STUDIES DISCIPLINES AND FIRST-YEAR WRITERS
… of Literary Texts: Rhetorical Bridges Between English Studies Disciplines and First-Year Writers seeks to blend rhetoric, composition, and literary discourses to illustrate how the subfields may engage in interdisciplinary collaboration and conversation. These conversations are important. For …
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Remix and Rebalance: Copyright and Fair Use Issues in the Digital Age and English Studies
<p>This thesis examines the current state of intellectual property in the digital age and provides specific suggestions on increasing conversations on copyright, fair use, and intellectual property in the first-year composition classroom.</p>
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English and Englishness: a cultural history of English studies in British higher education, 1880-1980
… previous work on the subject, the history of English Studies in higher education is not best understood in terms of the emergence of a mature form of academic activity which has since continued to develop through time on the basis of the unity of its object (lq`English literature') and of its …
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A national study of the relation of rhetoric-composition to other English studies' disciplines and the English department in higher education
This dissertation presents a detailed look at English Departments and English Studies at various institutions of Higher Education across the U.S. and situates Rhetoric-Composition in these contexts. The project centered on three research questions: 1. What are the various structures of English …
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Crossing Borders: An Academic Literacies Approach to the Study of M.A. Thesis Writing on English Studies Programmes in an Italian and a Hungarian University.
… of academic literacy practices on postgraduate English Studies programmes in two different national contexts in Europe, Hungary and Italy. It examines the transnational comparability of university qualifications in relation to the Bologna Declaration, which currently has forty-seven European …
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An examination of hedging and boosting devices used in academic discourse: Case of 2014 and 2015 master of Arts in English Studies thesis at the University of Namibia
… in all ten theses of the Master of Arts in English Studies submitted and examined at the University of Namibia between 2014 and 2015. The primary aim of this study was to examine how research writers use hedges to distance themselves from their claims, and how they use boosters to show …
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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
… 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 publication within academia. The goal of this …
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Performance studies and the reinvention of “I” in composition: moving myself beyond a textual model
… and linking it with the field of Performance studies in order to examine its potential critical function in the field of Composition. I examine the history of personal writing in English Studies and the possible expansion of its definition through the application of Performance studies …
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The “What E.L.S.E.” Resource Guide for E.S.L. Students
… guide for ESL students who want to study English on their own. This resource guide is ideal for motivated students who are at least high intermediate to advanced English students. This guide helps students create learning strategies that help them learn efficiently. There are three main …
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The Teaching of French in The United States in The Early 1970's: A Descriptive and Comparative Study (Foreign Language)
… subjects included in that survey were French and English as foreign languages. In order to describe the nature of the teaching of French in the United States during that period, this study includes discussions of enrollment trends, teacher characteristics and training, instructional practices, use …
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Basic Writing, Binaries, and Bridges: Difference and Power in the Production and Reception of Representations of Students
… of teachers, writing instruction, and English studies as a whole. Damaging representations of students come from competing definitions of literacy. Because literacy definitions vary, representations of students vary with some students perceived as the "Other." This study analyzes …
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"The alien within": Residual Catholicism and the emerging national identity of post-Reformation England
… the current critical discourse in Early Modern English Studies on the conceptions and literary representations of national and racial identity in 16th- and 17th-century England. Central to this discourse is an examination of how the English defined themselves in relation to those they deemed as …
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Raymond Williams : literature, Marxism and cultural materialism
… of this study is that Williams's engagement with English studies cannot be understood in terms purely internal to the discipline of English. As well as writing against the official culture of liberal and conservative literary studies, Williams also wrote in opposition to what he read as the …
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Transition and acculturation: Changing expectations in the move between A level and University
… the transition from sixth form to university English Studies. In recent years, this is an issue that has come under increasing scrutiny within the higher education sector and to a lesser degree within the sixth form sector. It is apparent from a growing body of literature that lecturers in …
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(De)coding Modality : The Case of Must, May, Måste and Kan
… initially replicated on data extracted from the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus. The data sample used in this investigation is considerably larger than that of Coates, and allows for contrastive observations. Coates's findings were confirmed to a large extent, and additional features were found …
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The Voices of Victimhood and Survivorship
… this analysis are the disciplines of: rhetorical studies, media studies, English studies, criminology, law, victimology studies, psychology, and violence philosophy- all collaborating interdisciplinarity in the interest of a feminist hermeneutic. These disciplines synthesize the key concepts and …
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El uso y el mantenimiento de la lengua: Garifuna en Sangrelaya, Honduras
… by the dominant language, either Spanish or English. Studies have, however, shown that in some Garifuna communities a process of language maintenance and revitalization is occurring. This study investigates the Garifuna community of Sangrelaya, Honduras. The purpose of this investigation was …
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Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, Salman Rushdie : three moments in the problematics of magic realism
… of magic realism influential in the field of English studies and concludes with a working definition which is used as a basis for the discussions of the three novels analysed in this study. Chapter Three is a study of the development of Alejo Carpentier's version of magic realism culminating …
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Behind the desk : encountering Shakespeare in South African education
… to such an extent that many schools, where English is taught as a First Additional Language, no longer offer Shakespeare to their learners. Of the plethora of reasons given why this is the case, this thesis is more interested in the role that certain encounters have played in such a shift. …
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