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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"composition pedagogy"”.
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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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Collaborative Storytelling: Composition Pedagogy and Communal Benefits of Narrative Innovation
… how to innovate narrative structure and teaching composition. Often considered a nerdy pastime, participants ridiculed for playing pretend and caring about imaginary characters, TTRPGs have nonetheless entered a sort of renaissance in recent years. While video games have slowly become more …
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Designing the Teacher: Applying 'Design Thinking' to Improve Composition Pedagogy and Practice
<p>College composition courses have conventionally relied on alphabetic, print writing as the primary method for constructing meaning, but contemporary communication practices are increasingly multimodal and media-based (Palmeri, 2012; Yancey, 2011). While many teachers and scholars advocate that …
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Out With the Old, In With Revitalized Grammar Through Style-based Composition Pedagogy
<p>Composition theory has grappled with innumerable pedagogical approaches to grammar studies in the past, many of which yielded questionable results regarding improved clarity and effectiveness of student writing. Grammar is a primary component of spoken and written language; however, its teaching …
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A Hermeneutic Composition Pedagogy: The Student as Self, Citizen, and Writer in Dewey, Arendt, and Ricoeur
… with describing a hermeneutic theory of composition pedagogy for the purpose of developing socially engaged, self-reflective, and critically conscious citizens of a democracy. This work examines the intersection of higher education and civic responsibility that has been the foundational …
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Composition, Pedagogy, and the Development of Effective Student-Teachers: A Comparative Analysis of Training Programs for Teaching Assistants in English Departments
… Illinois University at Carbondale. TITLE: COMPOSITION, PEDAGOGY, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF EFFECTIVE STUDENT-TEACHERS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR TEACHING ASSISTANTS IN ENGLISH DEPARTMENTS MAJOR PROFESSOR: DR. LISA J. MCCLURE The history of teaching assistant training has …
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High Impact Practices in First Year Composition Courses
… and how they can interact with First Year Composition Pedagogy through the creation of a Course Design for English 1102. The literature review is primarily an examination of research from the field of composition studies and high impact practices in higher education, as well as several …
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Unraveling Identity Signifier Literacy: A Case Study of First-Year Composition Students' Communication Practices
… others’ identities. In this study, 22 first-year composition students were surveyed about their communication practices in order to see how their identity signifier literacies influence and are influenced by digital environments and composition. These results are meant to improve first-year …
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Re-Imagining Invention (post)pedagogy From Ulmer's Electracy To Design
… traces the development of notable strands of composition pedagogy first crafted by Gregory Ulmer in his 1984 Applied Grammatology that continue to the present day, and groups them together in how they are incorporating multimodal tools in writing instruction that demand innovation in …
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Literacy Potentials: Agency, Embodiment, And Hybridity In Cesar Chavez's Discourse Practices
… for taking up the project's core concepts in composition pedagogy.</p>
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Development and Delivery of Mobile Learning for Composition Classrooms
… in many curricula, particularly in the field of composition. This work seeks to explore the potential for integrating mobile technologies in writing courses and writing centers in ways that value contemporary composition pedagogy and in ways people actually use smartphones. Such an approach …
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Playing the Writing Game: Gaming the Writing Play
… to the instruction of writing in the first year composition classroom. I frame my argument through dialectic of representation and simulation and the cultural shift now in progress from the latter to the former. I first address the history of multimodal composition in the writing classroom, …
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The Progymnasmata: New/Old Ways to Teach Reading, Writing, and Thinking in Secondary Schools
… past for answers to modern dilemmas in composition teaching. Several textbooks have been published that focus their teaching of college composition on the classical tradition. While the movement to revitalize classical rhetoric is gaining strength in universities, however, the benefits …
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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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The Composition of Postsecondary Institutions: An Ecological Approach to Pedagogy
<p>Over the last two decades, composition scholars have increasingly drawn on the discipline of Ecology and related “green” theories to suggest new topics for writing courses, new analogies or models for thinking about the teaching of writing, and new curricular goals. My contribution …
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Abundant Rhetoric: Memory, Media, and the Multiplicity of Composition
… of abundance by locating sites within rhetorical pedagogy that offer flexible and immanently modifiable ways to teach and practice composition within medial multiplicity.</p> <p>DISS_para>Much of the field's scholarship centering on composition and technology focuses on the idea that composers can …
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Breaking the Bubble: Exploring How Filter Bubbles Shape Critical Thinking in Community College English Composition
… students critical thinking within First-Year Composition (FYC) courses in a community college. Because writing and research now occur in algorithmically curated spaces, understanding their influence on students’ writing practices is essential to composition instruction. While FYC courses tend …
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Hang on to yourself: Bowie, Burke, and the rhetoric of stage persona
… interrelationship, especially as it relates to composition pedagogy.
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SCHOOLED: Hiphop Composition at the Predominantly White University
… higher-educational contexts, specifically in composition classrooms. Using ethnographic, autoethnographic, and historical methods, it finds that hiphop’s work in composition classrooms at PWIs is contradictory. This mixed-methods investigation suggests that the contradictory relation of white …
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