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Self-Discovery Journals in the College Composition Classroom
… to others? What, if anything, can teachers of composition do to promote an enthusiasm for writing? As I have found examination of my past experiences a key to answering these questions, I am persuaded that the key to enthusiastic writing lies in the opportunities students have to explore …
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Personality and Collaboration in the College Composition Classroom
… the importance of collaborative writing in the college composition classroom. It incorporates personality theory as a means of studying writing processes, in addition to its use as a means of placing students into collaborative writing workshop groups. Ethnographic and teacher-research methods …
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Collaboration and Communication in the College Composition Classroom
… their classroom practice. Using a combination of composition and psychological theories, I explored my students' reaction to my assignments and comments. This allowed the students to look at their own attitudes about the writing classroom and helped them to see ways their negative attitudes about …
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GENDER AND JOURNALS: LIFE AND TEXT IN COLLEGE COMPOSITION
<p>Since journals were introduced into the composition curriculum in the 1960's, they have become increasingly important components both of writing and writing across the curriculum courses. Yet the available literature shows we know little about the historical and social contexts of journal and …
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Perceptions of writing in a community college composition course
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Rhetorical Agency And Survivance: American Indians In College Composition
<p>American Indian writers in college have a distinct cultural background related to rhetorical agency and language. Particularly for Indian students who grew up on reservations, the effects of official federal policies regarding the use of English for assimilation remain significant. However, in …
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Multilingual writers' unintentional plagiarism: action research in college composition
… plagiarism and MLA citations among multilingual college students. It is an example of action research that began Fall Quarter 2013. The study conducted at Eastern Washington University in an English Composition for Multilingual Writers class involved students from Japan, Saudi Arabia, France, …
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Appalachian Language in the Two-Year College Composition Classroom
… discusses the intersection of first-year composition instructors and Appalachian language and culture at the two-year college level. Very little of the existing literature discusses pedagogy as it pertains to Appalachian students, and virtually none of the literature focuses on either …
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Teaching toward understanding: Feminist rhetorical theories and pedagogies in the college composition classroom
… challenge the primacy of antagonistic debate in college classrooms. In "Teaching Toward Understanding: Feminist Rhetorical Theories and Pedagogies in the College Composition Classroom," I maintain that the inclusion of invitational rhetoric, embodied rhetoric, and rhetorical listening as …
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Inquiry-based philosophical dialogue for ESL college composition and for critical thinking skills
<p>The present study was action research conducted in the fall of 2016 in English 112, an academic writing course for English as a Second Language (ESL) students at Eastern Washington University. The purpose of the study was 1) to challenge the deficit views that critical thinking is too difficult …
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Failure in the Writer's Journey: How New College Composition Instructors Experience Failure as Writers
… opportunity, especially in writing, but as composition scholar Allison Carr has argued, this narrative masks the complex emotional landscape that renders failure a profoundly affective and transformative experience for writers. This qualitative case study uses phenomenography and mindset …
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Bridging the Gap: Why Many High School Writers Are Not Successful In College Composition Classes
… so-called gap that seems to plague first-year college writers before attempting to discover why it exists. In order to identify the gap, I want to define these writers who are leaving high school and finding difficulty in college composition classes. Patricia Bizzell defines basic writers as …
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The Politics of Language and Writing: Multiculturalism and Other Socially Constructed Issues in the College Composition Classroom
The premise of my thesis is that composition and rhetoric has been politicized by socially constructed issues such as race, culture, class, economics, gender, sexual orientation, and so on. Composition and rhetoric have also been politicized by the traditional definition of politics--the notion of …
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Writing as Survival: Uncovering How Students Understand Antiracist Writing Assessment Practices in the Community College Composition Classroom
… purpose of this study was to uncover community college students’ perspectives and experiences with antiracist assessment practices and uncover their effect on students’ understanding of language, writing, and writing identity. By centering this research on the voices of ethnically diverse …
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Academic writing genres and their relationship to task goals and self-efficacy in community college composition courses
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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The Conference on College Composition and Communication: a historical study of its continuing education and professionalization activities, 1949-1975
… investigate the development of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from 1949 through 1975 as a vehicle for the continuing professional education of its members and for the professionalization of the field of college composition teaching. A number of research questions were …
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Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Community College Composition Class: A Multimodal Approach to Teaching Composition Using the Metalanguage of SFL
… linguistics (SFL) approach to teaching composition at the community college level. The study took place over the course of a semester in two developmental college composition classes using the language of SFL to teach writing through multimodal assignments. The study was developed in …
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Using media to teach a biography of Lincoln and Douglass: a case study of teaching ESL listening & viewing in college composition
… comprehension activity for multilingual college freshmen. This classroom- based, action research was conducted winter quarter of 2013 at Eastern Washington University in a composition class for multilingual writers. The primary text was Freedman's Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: …
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