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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"FYC"”.
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Engaging FYC Students with Quality Work Design
… identified by Schlechty have application in the FYC classroom for engaging students and improving learning.</p>
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Identity-Based Assignments and Student Disinterest in FYC
… the position of identity-based assignments in FYC and identify the student response to these assignments. If individuals teaching and studying FYC can determine that identity-based assignments raise first-year student interest in academic writing then we should intensify the study and use of …
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Student-Perceived Inclusivity in the FYC Classroom: Embracing Multilingualism
<p>The purpose of this study was to compare student perspectives on inclusivity in the first-year English composition classroom viewed explicitly through two distinct lenses: 1. a pre-post survey design that measures students’ perceptions of classroom inclusivity and 2. instructor-perceived …
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Expansive Learning in FYC: Using Linguistic Discourse Analysis to Measure the Effects of Threshold Concepts in Facilitating Generalization
… a movement toward using threshold concepts in FYC*s that take up writing studies as their curricula (Wardle and Downs, Dew). Even though using threshold concepts seems to be one interesting way of specifically studying expansive learning and generalization, we have no studies examining whether …
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"I Don't Want to Hurt Anyone's Feelings": Using Race as a Writing Prompt in First Year Writing
<p>First Year Composition (FYC) is one of the most important courses for any incoming college student. This course (often designated as English 101) provides students the rhetorical tools to fully engage in critical thinking and writing on the college level. One of the most common methods of …
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Telling stories of critical unearthings: A two-part research study examining narrative in first-year composition and dominant knowledge production
… the use of narrative in first-year composition (FYC) and its relation to dominant knowledge production and concepts of power such as ideology, hegemony, and linguistic/discursive power. The dissertation asks the following questions: How, and for what purpose, are instructors using narrative in …
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Digital Literacy in the Workplace Begins in School: A Research Study on Digital Information Literacy Pedagogies for FYC Classrooms
<p>This paper sets out to answer the following research questions:</p> <ol> <li>How can instructors take students’ current digital literacy knowledge and work them into a curriculum designed to help them build their digital information skills?</li> <li>How can instructors teach digital information …
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Between Bodies and Engagement: A Reclamation of Listening in First Year Composition
… to this gap by exploring first-year composition (FYC) instructors' perceptions of listening and its role in the FYC classroom. Using disability studies and feminist rhetorical frameworks, I map the ways in which instructors' notions of listening engage perceptions of students' bodies and student …
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Faculty expectations and perceptions of writing at a community college
… of the learning outcomes of the two semesters of FYC courses. The faculty members identified a majority of the FYC learning outcomes as having some level of importance to their courses across disciplines. In addition, the directions for the writing assignments used by these faculty members reveal …
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Breaking the Bubble: Exploring How Filter Bubbles Shape Critical Thinking in Community College English Composition
… 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 to emphasize …
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The expression of topic continuity by noun and pronoun phrasing and zero anaphora in first-year research writing
… speakers) from First Year Composition courses (FYC) and another 50 FYC participants’ (25 for each language) responses to an online questionnaire task, this dissertation explores the use of nouns vs. pronouns vs. Ø to refer back to an antecedent to build cohesion by expressing topic continuity …
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An examination of student perceptions of knowledge transfer in the first-year composition experience
… skills learned in the first-year composition (FYC) course to the writing required in their reported majors, in other college courses, and in their vocations. In the quantitative portion of the study, the researcher administered pre- and post-semester composition surveys to capture differences …
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Reconstructing social futures: digital voices in first-year writing
… literacies into the first-year composition (FYC) classroom, and investigates whether or not this can provide students access to critically analyze their actions on these platforms. I taught a self-designed FYC course focusing on critically producing, and consuming, self-representations on the …
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Key Steps and Strategies for Successful Revision in First-Year Composition
… students. This capstone project examines how FYC instructors can teach the most effective revision strategies (both individual and collaborative) to help students develop skills in revision. How should students reflect on their work? What is the best way to facilitate peer review? These are …
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The Normalization Process of Multimodal Composition: The "Unseeing" People of Color
… that the students bring with them to the FYC classroom. The dominant assignment genre in academia is the academic essay. Other dominant methods of communication and transferring scholarship are the journal article, annotated bibliography, proposal, and personal essay. Not to mention the …
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High Impact Practices in First Year Composition Courses
… of HIPs, and have them both interact with FYC pedagogy. </p>
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Predictors of occupational sensitisation to grain dust allergens and changes in lung function among grain mill workers in Cape Town
… A decrement of 278 ml in FEY 1 and 328 ml in FYC was associated with occupational sensitisation to wheat (and rye). Increasing employment duration resulted in annual decrements of 18.3 ml in FEY1 and 23 ml in FYC for every year employed. The odds for developing occupational asthma was only …
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So, why'd you post there? : the significance of instructor direction and reciprocity in online writing class interaction
… that investigates CMS tool use in an online FYC writing course. Using activity theory as a theoretical and methodological frame, findings show how students made CMS tool-use decisions based not only in function, but also on culturally shared beliefs held about interaction in the online …
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Priming the Pump: Reflection as a Catalyst for Transfer
… community has for First Year Composition (FYC) is that it will help students to become better writers and prepare them for the work they will do in subsequent courses, including writing in their own disciplines. In order for this to happen, students have to be able to transfer their …
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Remembering How to Listen: A Theoretical and Pedagogical Approach to Literacy, Adolescence, and Young Adult Literature
… of a first-year composition course (FYC) that features YAL examined through the lens of adolescent identity. The guiding principles behind this project are the consideration of adolescence as a social construct—including discussions of brain science and cognition—and the incorporation …
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