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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Freshman Composition"”.
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The role of literature in teaching freshman composition
The freshman course in "writing about literature" is a metaphor of the profession of English. Political disagreements with English departments, vocational pressures exerted from outside the English department, and philosophical differences among composition specialists intersect in the composition …
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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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Comparing screencast feedback to written feedback in freshman composition courses
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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(Re)Building Cultural, Community, and Academic Identity: Freshman Composition After Katrina
Composition studies has become increasingly focused on the connection between place, identity, and the act of writing, maintaining, as theorist Nedra Reynolds states, that “where writing instruction takes place has everything to do with how†(20). Considering the social, political, and cultural …
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Writer with more at stake : returning adults in the freshman composition classroom
… are 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 …
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Second Language Writing Instructor Written Feedback Practices in an ESL Freshman Composition Class: A Complexity Theory Perspective
This case study investigated second language writing instructors’ written feedback practices from a complexity theory perspective. The purpose of the research was to explore and examine contextual factors and their impact on instructor written feedback practices. Data were collected from two ESL …
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Exemption from College Freshman Composition: The College Level Examination Program (CLEP) General Examination in English Composition and the American College Testing Program (ACT) English Usage Test
Problem. This study investigated exemption from freshman composition. Its two primary purposes were, first, to examine the validity and cutting scores of the oriqinal CLEP General Examination in English Composition (GE:E), a test used nationwide to grant exemption; and, second, to measure the …
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Virtual Students/Virtual Teachers: the Reality of Student Responsibility in Education
… exists for the use of computers in the freshman composition classroom. Computer technology can help students reach and understand new concepts of learning. A computer "pedagogy" in the writing class can promote collaboration, responsibility for learning, decentering of authority, …
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An Investigative Study: Audio Visual Instruction Aids Now Being Used in Freshman English Sections in American Colleges and Universities
… audio visual aids are now being used in college freshman composition sections of English in American colleges and universities.
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Dual Credit English: Program History, Review, and Recommendations
… high school seniors to enroll in the college's freshman-level ENG 111: College Composition I and ENG 112: College Composition II courses while simultaneously completing senior English. The guarantee of college credit for students who earn at least a "C" average and other cost-saving and …
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Supporting Student Writers' Personal Agency Through Meditation in the Composition Classroom: An Exploratory Study
… as implemented in the second semester of freshman composition. With both whole-class and individualized data sources, the study seeks to address changes in students' attitudes toward the meditative practice as well as their own senses of personal agency. In addition the study seeks to …
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Identifying as author: exploring the pedagogical basis for assisting diverse students to discover their identities through creatively defined literacy narratives
… such as text and authorship in the field of composition studies. Drawing from scholarship on topics ranging from multi-modal composition to feminist historical-appropriation, the author builds a case for redefining these concepts to include a broader range of texts and author-voices from …
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Assigning Myself: an Action Research Investigation Into the Making of Writing Assignments
… During one semester of teaching college-level freshman composition, I completed my own assignments with my students in an attempt to illustrate both the value of teacher action research and the need for teachers of writing to attempt their own writing assignments. One discovery among many that …
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Research, Rhetoric, and the Writing Curriculum: Consciousness Expansion Through Bi-Hemisphericity
This study gives implications for teaching composition based on current rhetorical and psychological theory. It examines what recent brain research has to say about left-hemispheric verbal skills and right-hemispheric imaginal skills. A survey of literary, philosophical, and rhetorical expressions …
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A curriculum for the education of prospective teachers of English that balances writing and literature study
… of prospective teachers of English in composition, trace the historical background of the present situation, and provide model curricula to remedy the inadequacy.The inadequacy in composition in English preparatory programs was established in Chapter I by citing results of studies …
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Latino students and biliteracy at a university: Literacy histories, agency, and writing
… of student writing (from high school, university freshman composition courses, courses from students’ majors, scholarship essays, creative writing, and Spanish writing), and documents including syllabi and assignment sheets. Following Ivanic’s framework, data analysis centered on the participants’ …
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Imitation and Adaptability in the First-Year Composition Classroom: A Pedagogical Study
… of writing-process behaviors—in the First Year composition classroom can have many benefits for both student writers and teachers, and offers practical solutions to some of the problems facing student writers in today's colleges. First Year writing students are often unaware that they are part …
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The Communal "I": Exclusion and Belonging in American Autobiography
<p>The Communal “I” in American autobiography emerges as an aesthetic response to the pressure of using “the master’s tools” to write from a community on the margins to disclose identity in the conflicts of exclusion and belonging. In this case “the master’s tools” to refer to several distinct …