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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"first-year composition"”.
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First-Year Composition for Generation Z
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The role of interest in first-year composition
… focuses on how interest matters to students in first-year composition. Generally, students are required to take first-year composition and are not in such a course by choice. Thus, understanding what interests them, and understanding how interest matters to them, are major concerns. The data in …
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High Impact Practices in First Year Composition Courses
… Impact Practices 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 …
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Rewriting the Sentence in First-Year Composition: Pedagogies and Perspectives
<p>Many college students arrive in first-year composition classrooms lacking sufficient sentence-level proficiency. Although syntactically challenged writers are often evaluated harshly in academic, professional, and other writing contexts, sentence-based pedagogies that can help students write …
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Moving Beyond Grades: A Shift in Assessing First-Year Composition
… many other scholars who have been exploring new composition assessment models. My study shows that grading and grading rubrics may end up doing more harm than good.</p>
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Teaching Visual Literacy and Document Design in First-Year Composition
… surrounding the inclusion of these ideas in first-year composition. First-year writing is already difficult to teach because colleges expect us to foster critical reading, critical thinking, and critical writing skills in students from a wide variety of disciplines. Compounding these …
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Instructor Opinion on Personal Writing in the First-Year Composition Classroom
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A Mock Rhetoric: The Use of Satire in First-Year Composition
… understand the fundamentals of rhetoric and composition in a way that is both engaging and intellectually demanding. While often misunderstood within the larger culture, and perhaps equally underused in academic culture, satiric writing can be a creative and critical heuristic for the …
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Key Steps and Strategies for Successful Revision in First-Year Composition
… revision process can be a difficult task for First-Year Composition students. This capstone project examines how FYC instructors can teach the most effective revision strategies (both individual and collaborative) to help students develop skills in revision. How should students reflect on …
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Between Bodies and Engagement: A Reclamation of Listening in First Year Composition
Although contemporary rhetoric and composition scholarship has engaged in sustained inquiry into writing, speaking, and reading as rhetorical acts, little attention has been paid to the ways in which listening functions as a mode of rhetorical conduct. Recent developments in feminist rhetorical …
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White or Wrong: Application of Whiteness Theory in First-Year Composition Classes
… that applying Whiteness Theory to instruct a composition class will allow students to understand their subjectivity, and this understanding may in turn improve their writing. To make this argument, I provide examples of two assignments that use Whiteness Theory will allow instructors and …
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Critical Thinking and Argument in First-Year-Composition: A Two-Part Assignment
<p>Course study and survey of a two-part assignment in Comp 1101.</p>
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Imitation and Adaptability in the First-Year Composition Classroom: A Pedagogical Study
… the modeling 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 …
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Developing a pedagogy of pluralistic linguistic expression in the first year composition classroom
<p>"Over the past 40 years, the field of composition has recognized of the importance of legitimizing students' linguistic diversity in the composition classroom. However, a framework for a pedagogy of linguistic diversity does not yet exist. This thesis seeks to provide such a framework by …
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Dawn of the Undead Classroom: Pop-Culture in the First-Year Composition Classroom
… effects pop culture and genre have on the first-year composition classroom, exploring how engaging students through a common discourse that is relatable and comfortable can aid in their writing and composition progression. She explains how teaching under a framework such as the undead and …
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Reading and Religion: Reconciling Diverse Reading Patterns and the First Year Composition Classroom
… tolerance is the supposed standard of the first-year composition classroom, the writing patterns and argumentation skills of self-identified Christian students often frustrate teachers and create classroom dissonance and interpersonal divergence. This work looks at what apologetic and …
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"Who is 'you'?": teaching authentic approaches to audience and genre in first-year composition
… so are the daily practices of communication in composition classrooms. Students of the digital age bring with them a new and continually evolving language into their college writing, which, while it is indicative of the change in language processes, can be problematic. The impetus for this …
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An examination of student perceptions of knowledge transfer in the first-year composition experience
… their ability to transfer skills learned in the first-year composition (FYC) course to the writing required in their reported majors, in other college courses, and in their vocations. In the quantitative portion of the study, the researcher administered pre- and post-semester composition surveys …
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