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Showing 1 to 20 of 409 for “"Rhetoric and Composition"”.
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A contextualist research paradigm for rhetoric and composition
The unresolved nineteenth-century debate--"is rhetoric an art or a science?"--hashindered our attempt to establish an inclusive research paradigm for rhetoric and composition. The newly dominant paradigm is quickly narrowing to prefer the qualitative designs that suit our literary ideals, relieve …
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Failure Facing Pedagogy in First-Year Rhetoric and Composition Classrooms
… taught to operate within the binary of success and failure. “According to self-worth theory, in school, where one’s worth is largely measured by one’s ability to achieve, self-perceptions of incompetence can trigger feelings of shame and humiliation" (De Castella, Byrne and Covington 862). …
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Building a Chicana rhetoric for rhetoric and composition : methodology, practice, and performance
… D.)--Michigan State University. Department of Rhetoric and Writing, 2010
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Re-Mediating Rhetoric and Composition: An Activity-Based Multimodal Framework for Composing
The final chapter summarizes the framework and the findings of this study. In keeping with a framework that privileges a concept of revision that is not motivated solely by the desire to perfect products and processes so much as it is about re-assessing a rhetorical situation, and potentials for …
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The Composition of Crisis and the Future of the University: Theory, Pedagogy, and Identity In Rhetoric and Composition Studies
<p>Many scholars and teachers in rhetoric and composition studies have for some time been deeply invested in engaging questions of disciplinary identity. Posing questions about what rhetoric and composition studies <em>is</em> has become more than just a routine way of self-reflexively engaging the …
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THE LITERACIES OF LITERARY TEXTS: RHETORICAL BRIDGES BETWEEN ENGLISH STUDIES DISCIPLINES AND FIRST-YEAR WRITERS
The Literacies 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 …
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The Rhetoric of Substance Use Disorder
… marginalizing language present in the field of rhetoric and composition and cultural studies around those with substance use disorder. </p>
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Who do I say I am? Evangelical identity and academic writing
… evangelical students' identities integrated into and implicated by their academic writing?</p><p>In answering these questions, this project seeks to bridge two key scholarly discussions in rhetoric and composition, namely the discussions about writing and identity and about evangelical discourse. …
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Recovering a "Lost" Genre: The Essay
In this dissertation I argue that faculty and scholars in rhetoric and composition could improve their pedagogy and scholarship by "reclaiming" the genre at the heart of composition curricula nationwide: the essay. Why do we need to "reclaim" it if it is already so central? Because the closer we …
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Everyday I'm Hustlin? Hiphop Rhetorics and the Art of Makin? Do
The field of Rhetoric and Composition traditionally centers the Greco-Roman tradition, specifically rhetorics and theories attached to privileged, white males, as the most important voices, while marginalizing rhetorics from other communities such as people of color, women, and queer folks. This …
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ON THE CUSP OF INVISIBILITY: THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY, MARGINALIZED STUDENTS, AND INSTITUTIONAL SPACES
… the potential for decolonial possibilities for and democratic participation of students in three rhetorical and institutional spaces: the writing center, the classroom, and the archives. The Lower Río Grande Valley, the site of the study, is located at the Southernmost end of Texas, and is …
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Supporting Equine-Assisted Therapy: A Grant Proposal Writing Project for Healing Hands Youth Ranch
… writing as a practical application of her Rhetoric and Composition concentrated degree.</p> <p>Grant proposal writing is essentially practical persuasion in practice because it requires that the writer convince an organization that a non-profit is performing services that are necessary to …
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Listening to our stories in dusty boxes: Indigenous storytelling methodology, archival practice, and the Cherokee Female Seminary
… to seek out interdisciplinary connections within Rhetoric and Composition and to put these intersections into practice, this dissertation seeks out the ways indigenous ways of knowing, such as storytelling, can provide a heuristic to understand the ways our dappled discipline works to create …
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Siete Lenguas: The Rhetorical History of Dolores Huerta and the Rise of Chicana Rhetoric
… is first an historical trajectory of Chicana Rhetoric in the American polis and then a perspectival analysis of three key texts from Chicana labor rights activist and vice president of the United Farm Workers Union Dolores Huerta. The trajectory establishes an efficacious legacy of Chicana …
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THE THIRD WORLD WOMEN’S ALLIANCE: HISTORY, GEOPOLITICS, AND FORM
… that maintained active chapters in New York City and the Bay Area between 1971-80. Drawing on archival research and qualitative interviews, I reconstruct how the group invoked, constructed, and circulated intersecting Third World histories and geopolitical analyses through political education, …
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Gender and race, online communities, and composition classrooms
… of three separate sites, I use examples of women and minorities fighting against discrimination online to explore the power structures inherent to networks and how these might affect classroom practice. I will show how our ordinary assumptions in rhetoric and composition as well as computers and …
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The Literacy Sponsors Gallery Wall: Rethinking Literacy Sponsorship Through Multimodal Drafting
… of multimodality in the drafting process and advocates for more disciplinary support of multimodality across first-year writing curriculums in the field of Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies. I explore my primary research question, how might multimodal drafting through the Literacy …
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SUPPORT SERVICES FOR MAINSTREAM DEAF COLLEGE STUDENT WRITERS: THREE INSTITUTIONAL CASE STUDIES
… existing literature relevant to deaf education and language acquisition. The second goal of this project was to generate descriptive portraits of three institutions by illustrating how the schools are serving deaf student writers. The synthesis of the literature, descriptive portraits of the …
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Case Not Closed: Whiteness and the Rhetorical Genres of Freedom Summer
This dissertation examines the role of whiteness and its relationship to identification in rhetorical representations of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. Texts examined at length include recruitment materials, media coverage, pamphlets, and letters produced during the project, as well …
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