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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Writing programs"”.
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Writing Program Directors' Perceptions of Factors Promoting Writing Programs
… In this context, crucial departments such as writing programs, which offer all students the opportunity to build their communication skills while bringing their unique perspectives to traditional theories, have been under pressure for their higher cost than traditional lecture-style and new …
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Constructs Unique To Two Volusia County Elementary Writing Programs
… constructs of two fourth-grade elementary writing programs in Volusia County, Florida. With only the Sunshine State Standards as a guide, each district, school, or teacher must design a writing curriculum that addresses those standards, develops writers, and provides accountability. …
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TOWARD A VISUAL PAIDEIA: VISUAL RHETORIC IN UNDERGRADUATE WRITING PROGRAMS
… elements. Instruction in visual rhetoric in the writing classroom, however, has tended to focus on analysis with far less emphasis on teaching students how to produce multimodal texts. Drawing upon classical rhetorical theory, I propose the development of a visual paideia grounded in the …
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Community Engagement in Writing Programs: Preparing Students for Success in Professional Settings
… in the nonprofit sector, (2) what kinds of writing, research, and other deliverables are needed by nonprofits supporting the foster care system and how the MAPW program prepared me to produce those deliverables, and (3) how having a strong understanding of the history and context of a social …
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Culture, Cognition, and Context: Situated Literacy Practices of L1 and L2 Writing Programs
… shape the literacy practices of an L1 and an L2 writing program at one university. The dissertation reports a longitudinal ethnographic study drawing on my participant observation as a student, writing instructor, and researcher in the two programs. Based on the data collected for the past four …
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The effect of first-year writing programs on the retention and persistence of historically underserved students
… 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.). There has …
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Attitudes of Principals toward Written Composition Research and Instructional Leadership Practices Associated with Effective Writing Programs
… research findings concerning the teaching of writing. The second purpose of this study was to assess attitudes of principals toward the instructional leadership practices which would be essential to the management of an effective school-wide writing program. Subjects were (N = 180) elementary …
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Emerging genres, dangerous classifications: The kairos of digital composing policy
… of Digital Composing Policy</em> argues that writing policy infrastructure plays a significant (if often invisible) role in affording emerging digital genres in rhetoric and composition. Within the last few decades, the accelerating transformations and instabilities of emerging genres have …
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Spelling instruction for beginning writers in whole language classrooms
… of integrating spelling instruction into their writing programs. Traditional approaches that involve word lists and weekly spelling tests are not in accordance with whole language beliefs.
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Spelling instruction for beginning writers in whole language classrooms
… of integrating spelling instruction into their writing programs. Traditional approaches that involve word lists and weekly spelling tests are not in accordance with whole language beliefs.
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From the Margins to the Middle: Making Room for Visual Rhetoric in the Composition Classroom
… an argument, then the inclusion of visuals in a writing classroom becomes a question not of if but of how. Study findings and recommendations are relevant for first-year writing instructors, administrators, and others involved in the design and delivery of first-year writing programs. </p>
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Impact of Student Achievement Through the Use of the Six Traits of Writing Model
… scoring of 30 randomly selected student writing samples gathered in the years of 2005, 2006, and 2007 in the Fargo Public School District. The 12 teachers were separated into three groups. Group A (four teachers) served as the control group, as they have been trained and currently score …
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Beyond McPoetry: Contemporary American Poetry in the Institutionalized Creative Writing Program Era
… dissertation examines the rise of the creative writing program in American higher education and considers its influence on contemporary American poetry. I investigate how the patronage of the university has impacted American poetry and reconfigured the contemporary literary landscape. Using Mark …
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The CLA+ and the Two Cultures: Writing Assessment and Educational Testing
The CLA+ and the Two Cultures: Writing Assessment and Educational Testing concerns the Collegiate Learning Assessment+, a standardized test of collegiate learning currently being piloted at Purdue, and its potential impacts on writing programs and pedagogy. From an empirical, theoretical, and …
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An affordance-inspired tool for automated web page labeling and classification
Writing programs that are capable of completing complex tasks on web pages is difficult due to the inconsistent nature of the pages themselves. While there exist best practices for developing naming schemes for page elements, these schemes are not strictly enforced, making it difficult to develop a …
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It Goes Without Saying: Infrastructure as Rhetorical Theory for Navigating Transition in Writing Program Administration
Writing program administrators (WPAs) work in constant negotiation with institutional forces outside of individual control, where the concerns of infrastructure impact writing programs continuously. In periods of transition, where new WPAs are entering a program, or the institution itself is …
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Lightning in a Bottle: A History of the Syracuse Writing Program, 1986-1996
… in a Bottle: A History of the Syracuse Writing Program, 1986-1996, is directed by Louise Wetherbee Phelps and Collin Gifford Brooke. This historical study of the Syracuse Writing Program's administrative structures for contingent faculty focuses on professional development and evaluation …
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Understanding the rhetorical engineer
… of the Purdue School of Mechanical Engineering Writing Enhancement Program and its definition of good engineering writing. Based on the work with the Mechanical Engineering Faculty and the Writing Enhancement Program, it was determined that good engineering writing is aware of its need to …
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Integrated reading and writing in community colleges: a qualitative study of developmental literacy education
… potential benefits that integrating reading and writing instruction provides to developmental students. In light of several bans on developmental education at four-year institutions across the country, the role community colleges play in providing literacy instruction appears to be increasingly …
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Automatic translation of CUDA to OpenCL and comparison of performance optimizations on GPUS
As an open, royalty-free framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms, OpenCL gives programmers access to a variety of data parallel processors including CPUs, GPUs, the Cell and DSPs. All OpenCL-compliant implementations support a core specification, thus ensuring …
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