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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"First Year Writing"”.
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Living Pedagogy: Redesigning the First Year Writing Classroom
In this thesis the writing pedagogies of process, critical literacy, and multimodality are used as a framework for redesigning the physical layout and aesthetics of the first-year writing classroom. The idea of embracing a fully embodied ‘living’ pedagogy is also explored as a means to develop and …
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Reconstructing social futures: digital voices in first-year writing
… out-of-school digital 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, …
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Postmodern Feminist Pedagogy in a First-Year Writing Class
… even a decade ago. Yet the pedagogy of college writing classrooms has been slow to reflect societal change. What contributions can feminist theory and postmodern theory make to the field of college composition? If specific elements of such theorizing are infused into a first year writing class, …
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First-Year Writing Ungraded Study At Eastern Kentucky University
… more on the feedback they receive within their First-Year Writing program. Ungrading uses self-assessments, grade rubrics, contracts, minimal grading, and portfolios to help give students feedback without the need for a grade on an assignment. By having instructors use Ungrading students can …
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Communicating Performance: First-Year Writing Syllabi as Rhetorical Contact Zones
… genre structures—I gathered a selection of 25 First-Year Writing syllabi within the Department of English at Virginia Tech to help address this concern of a lack of research. Using qualitative research methods—specifically those dealing with language and genre coding—I worked through my syllabi …
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Assessing Citation Practices in First-Year Writing: A Computational-Rhetorical Approach
… schemes have had limited applicability to L1 first-year writing contexts (Petric, 2007; Lee, Hitchcock, and Casal, 2018; Zhang, 2023). This study responds to calls for a better understanding of the rhetorical strategies first-year writing students employ when citing sources, as well as …
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The (un)common reader : investigating common readers in first-year writing pedagogy
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Queering Composition: A Language for LGBTQIA+ Perspectives in First-Year Writing Instruction
… that queerness has a history with the field of writing composition and that this history can shape modern composition through a specific lexicon containing the terms <em>derivative, originative, Rogerian, rhetorical failure, </em>and<em> master narratives. </em>To provide evidence for this, I …
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First-Year Writing Teachers' Emotions and Grammar Instruction: A Mixed Methods Study
This dissertation studies how first-year writing teachers' experiences learning grammar impact their teaching of and responses to the topic of grammar. Scholars like Francis Christenson and Martha Kolln agree that some knowledge of grammar helps students' rhetorical acuity but not when taught with …
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Technologically-Mediated Writing In The First Year Writing Classroom: Twitter And Immediate Writing
<p>A series of assignments in First Year Writing classes at Saginaw Valley State University utilizes social media to address issues of kairos in student writing experiences. The term "immediate writing" is applied to these writing activities which require students to produce polished writing in a …
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With Hope: A Student-Centered Model of Critical Pedagogy for First-Year Writing
… models of practice in the context of first-year writing, particularly for new instructors and graduate teaching assistants. This study uses a three-part methodology. First, relevant scholarship is synthesized in four parts: critical pedagogy as theory, critical pedagogy as design for …
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Multimodality And The Sociality Of Literacies: Shaping First-Year Writing Students’ Literacies Through Multimodal Approaches
… developing these literacies opens the door for first-year writing students to build upon social discourses in which they already engage and develop new modes of meaning making outside of solely alphabetic literacy. Composition textbooks today, both traditional and Open Educational Resources …
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The effect of first-year writing programs on the retention and persistence of historically underserved students
… this project specifically examined the role that first-year writing (FYW) courses can play to improve outcomes for students. I continue to be especially interested and invested in historically underserved students (first-generation, low-income, students of color, LGBTQIA+, ESL/ELL students, etc.). …
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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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First-year Writing and Research Journals: How Online Publication Redefines Student Writing and Scholarship in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies
Many accounts of student writing exist in the field of Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies (RCWS) in the form of writing textbooks, readers, and articles across decades of professional journal volumes (Grobman 2009; Kinkead 2011; Robillard 2006; Sommers 2015).. Some argue that discussing …
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From the Margins to the Middle: Making Room for Visual Rhetoric in the Composition Classroom
… examines the potential role of visuals in a first-year composition classroom. Essential theoretical questions include whether visual images have rhetorical power, and specifically, whether they can sustain an argument. If we suppose that visual images, like verbal texts, can be arranged to …
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Post-Literacy: Designing Writing Curricula around Emerging Literate Activities
My project, titled Post-Literacy: Designing Writing Curricula around Emerging Literate Activities, focuses on the integration of digital and multimodal literacies in first-year writing curricula. This dissertation situates itself among other scholarship in new literacies, such as the work of Gee, …
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Borderlands, Translingualism, and Latinx Students in a Monolingual Community College
… still misunderstands Latinx, especially first- and second-generation migrants to the United States. Though Latinx students have been enrolling in colleges and universities in larger numbers, they also have the largest cohort who do not complete college degrees. As the ubiquitous …
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