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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"personal writing"”.
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Creating a Personal Writing Space
Writing.
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Who Is It For? Personal Writing and Antagonistic Readers
<p>Feminist accounts of how “the personal” is used in feminist critical nonfiction have theorized that the effect of the personal is to connect the writer with readers who share a sense of her investment in the subject matter. Looking at two recent, prominent works about gender and sexuality, and …
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Instructor Opinion on Personal Writing in the First-Year Composition Classroom
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Personal Writing in the Composition Classroom: Passport to Success in an Academic Landscape
… called into question, especially the use of personal writing as a legitimate form of academic writing. The purpose of this thesis is to show that the composition classroom plays an integral role in the academic maturation of the college student and argues that the personal essay is a vital …
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An Investigation of Differences in Language Arts Achievement Caused by a Planned Program in Personal Writing
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Performance studies and the reinvention of “I” in composition: moving myself beyond a textual model
This study reconsiders the category of personal writing by contextualizing and linking it with the field of Performance studies in order to examine its potential critical function in the field of Composition. I examine the history of personal writing in English Studies and the possible expansion of …
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Cultivating One Woman's Personal Narratives: Harvests From the Heart
Personal writing allows writers to clarify their values, gain a stronger sense of self-esteem, and preserve their identity. Within her thesis, Coberley uses a cultivation analogy to explore the similarities/requirements in the growth processes of personal writing and gardening: adaptability, good …
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Reading the personal: Toward a theory and practice of self -narrative in student writing
<p>This dissertation examines students' personal essays as rhetorical projects of self-representation. The debate over the role of personal writing in composition studies has created a binary opposition between a modernist transcendent notion of self and a postmodern discursive subject. As a …
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Classroom Practices in the Teaching of Writing
… of current practices in the teaching of writing. The subjects were 327 eleventh grade English students and the six English teachers who taught them. The subjects were selected from three of eight high schools operating in a system of approximately 30,000 students in the southern region of …
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Developing L2 Writing Teacher Expertise: An Exploratory Study of MA TESOL Students’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Writing Across Three UK Programmes
… (TESOL) with regards to the teaching of L2 writing. Drawing on data from interviews with participants across three UK universities, it explores how participants’ conceptualisations of L2 writing and L2 writing instruction relate to the development of their Pedagogical Content Knowledge for …
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The Philosophy of Time in Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, and The Waves
… of time as they are represented in the writing of Virginia Woolf. The project frames the discussion with the idea that Woolf’s work embodies these pre-existing theories in revolutionary ways. The three specific texts examined for this research are Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, and The Waves as …
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An Investigation into Teachers’ Attitudes toward Their Own Writing Through the Use of a Valid Writing Attitudes Instrument
… investigated teachers’ attitudes towards their personal writing using the Linn writing attitude scale. The researcher classified twelve elementary teachers as either perceived positive (6) or negative (6) in their attitudes towards their writing. The researcher then evaluated the teachers using …
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Voices in discourse : re-thinking shared meaning in academic writing
… an additional language and their experience of writing academic essays in the faculties of Arts and Social Science at the University of Cape Town. In order to explore this relationship, the research draws on ethnographic methodology, and takes place in different locations. The first is in the …
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Voices in discourse: Re-thinking shared meaning in academic writing
… an additional language and their experience of writing academic essays in the faculties of Arts and Social Science at the University of Cape Town. In order to explore this relationship, the research draws on ethnographic methodology, and takes place in different locations. The first is in the …
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An Investigation of the Role of Guided Reading in Proficient First Grade Reader's In-School Writing
… between the role of guided reading and in-school writing of three proficient first-grade literacy learners during the first eight months of the 2007-08 school-year. Portraits of each student as a literacy learner were developed through case studies. Those individual case studies were then analyzed …
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To Whom Occurs the Haunting: A Singular Exploration of a Disturbed Femme Psyche
<p>By utilizing critical experimental writing, my capstone project will be an exploration of the haunting effects of transgenerational trauma and its lasting impact on the present-day psyche of one disturbed female subject - myself. Relying on multiple formats of writing, including but not limited …
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"""Writing teachers must write"": tracing trajectories of teacher participation across professional and everyday practices"
Although the idea that “writing teachers must write” is pervasive, little is known about how teachers’ participation in out-of-school writing practices shapes their writing instruction. To date, most research on teacher practice has been limited to institutional settings like classrooms, …
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Move, make, imagine: bringing imaginal, embodied and relational consciousness to change work
… both warm and violent. Haven can tell you that writing about how I have changed through writing stories has led us through discoveries of psychoanalytic theory, theatre, autoethnography, feminist theory, poetry, ecology and more. When we had to do work we dove into Performance Studies and what a …