Unraveling Identity Signifier Literacy: A Case Study of First-Year Composition Students' Communication Practices

<p>Identity signifier literacy is defined as one’s ability to accurately read – via personal interactions or via visual, verbal, written, or digital communication – the signifiers others display in direct and indirect ways and interpret these signifiers to gain understanding of 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 composition pedagogy by making connections between students’ informal composition practices and their academic composition courses.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in Professional Writing (MAPW)

Level thesis:degree_level

Capstone

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2018

Author dc:creator

• McAlister, Bailey

Contributors dc:contributor

• Jeanne Bohannon
• Todd Harper

• identity signifier literacy
• composition
• rhetoric
• first-year composition
• pedagogy
• Communication
• Higher Education
• Linguistics
• Rhetoric and Composition

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/mapw_etd/42

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu:mapw_etd-1044