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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"writing studies"”.
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Medicalized Illiteracies: Learning Disabilities, Contentious Histories, and Writing Studies
… order to understand the scholarly reluctance of Writing Studies and Disability Studies to deal with learning disabilities. Through an archival study, I examine how literacy and assessments of literate performance work as definitional in learning disability history and call for Writing Studies to …
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A Rhetoric of Fields: Orientationalist and Enactive Essays for Writing Studies
… primarily in the late 1980s, the phrase “Writing Studies” has increasingly come to be used as a synonym for “Composition and Rhetoric.” Analyzing the orientational and disorientational significance of assuming both synonymy and distinction between the two, I argue for a methodological …
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A considerable distance: the role of writing studies in online learning at community colleges
This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-03-31 at 09:15.
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First-year Writing and Research Journals: How Online Publication Redefines Student Writing and Scholarship in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies
Many accounts of student writing exist in the field of Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies (RCWS) in the form of writing textbooks, readers, and articles across decades of professional journal volumes (Grobman 2009; Kinkead 2011; Robillard 2006; Sommers 2015).. Some argue that discussing …
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"Where Is A Story Before It Becomes Words?": Understanding Queer Composition's Place in Writing Studies Through Lynda Barry's What It Is
… Theory has maintained an unstable place in Writing Studies because of the ever-changing political and social uses and definitions of the term “queer” in contemporary western society. In this essay, I discuss how composition scholars must reinterpret their understanding of Queer Composition …
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Disciplinary discourse: explicating rhetorical and sociolinguistic networks in the archive and library
… (LIS) and its subsequent impact on the field of writing studies and the teaching of writing. Specifically, this inquiry includes four key aspects: theorizing the field of LIS as a metadiscipline that has similarities in scope and influence to the field of writing studies; illustrating how the …
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A New Field of Dreams: A Study of the Writing Major
<p>Within Writing Studies, the tension between pedagogy and theory, between teaching and disciplinary status receives much commentary. This dissertation explores that tension within the context of the undergraduate Writing major. I begin by reviewing scholarship about advanced composition, advanced …
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Stock Stories Versus Counterstories: A Contemporary Retelling and Centering of Disenfranchised Narratives
… the literacy narrative genre, and advance writing studies.</p> <p>Keywords: literacy counterstory, pedagogical counterstory, critical race theory, critical race praxis, educational disfranchisement, writing studies.</p>
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Capitalizing on literacy: federal adult education policy in the 20th century
… economic productivity. My project contends that writing studies scholars need to pay greater attention to how this human capital discourse reifies characterizations of literacy as set of neutral, context free, fixed, and stable skills. Despite writing studies scholarship refuting this …
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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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“Anyone can be a scientist”: Constructions of expertise and citizenship in citizen science literate activity
… projects in STEM mirrors the “public turn” in writing studies in that citizen science carries many of the same concerns regarding reciprocity and sustainability as service learning or community writing does in writing studies (Mathieu, 2005). By examining citizen science, I aim to build …
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Multimodal Composition and the Rhetoric of Comics: A Study of Comics Teams in Collaboration
The field of writing studies has long inquired about how writers engage in individualized writing processes. As an extension of this inquiry, contemporary scholarship in writing studies began to study collaborative writing through the understanding of writing as a social act. Our understanding of …
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The divergent archive and androcentric counterpublics: Public rhetorics, memory, and archives
As a field, Writing Studies has long been concerned with the rhetorical representation of both dominant and marginalized groups. However, rhetorical theory on publics and counterpublics tends not to articulate how groups persuade others of their status as mainstream or marginal. Scholars of …
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The Piratical Ethos: Textual Activity and Intellectual Property in Digital Environments
… and intellectual property in the Humanities and Writing Studies. Next, this project develops and implements a communicational-mediational research methodology to theorize how both discursive and material data lend themselves to a more nuanced understanding of the ways that technologies of …
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Distributed Argumentative Activity: Redefining Arguments and Their Re -Mediation From a Sociohistoric Perspective
… Chapter Five, I apply the findings of these case studies to writing studies pedagogy, claiming that to prepare students to argue in diverse settings and to employ evolving media, writing courses must call attention to tacit and explicit negotiations over expectations, knowledge, tools, and so on. …
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Practice and Efficacy of Peer Writing Feedback in a Large First-Year Engineering Course
… remains a persistent contemporary issue, with studies continuing to indicate that engineering graduates are insufficiently prepared for workplace communication. Despite compelling arguments that that writing should be treated as a situated activity, writing instruction is often separated from …
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The Literacy Sponsors Gallery Wall: Rethinking Literacy Sponsorship Through Multimodal Drafting
… support of multimodality across first-year writing curriculums in the field of Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies. I explore my primary research question, how might multimodal drafting through the Literacy Sponsors Gallery Wall assignment support students' process of writing the …
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Travel Writing, Self and Other: Finding Reciprocal Space
… and other as these are constructed in the travel writing of five authors: the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark; the Victorian polymath William Morris’ Icelandic Journals; travel writer and historian Robert Byron’s The Road …
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Sociocultural studies of biomedicine and healthcare in everyday literate lifeworlds
This dissertation uses sociocultural studies approaches to investigate the multimodal practices of reception that patients and medical professionals use in their everyday lives as they engage health-related information. People demonstrate their active uptake of professional writing through …
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Disciplining Identities: Feminism, New Media, and 21st Century Research Practices
… and claims that the future of feminist work in writing studies must explore new media as a research method. The majority of the chapter examines the connections such work can make with feminist film studies and feminist ethnography, and provides a brief history of feminist work in composition. …
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