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Mining For Gold: Reimagining The Role Of Curricular Texts In Writing Instruction, Carrigan Price
Mining For Gold: Reimagining The Role Of Curricular Texts In Writing Instruction, Carrigan Price
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Secondary schools in northern Utah frequently combine literature and composition studies into a single English Language Arts course, limiting the time English teachers have to teach the skills and content important to both. Literature and reading often overshadow writing instruction in this situation, leading to concentrated writing instruction dependent on pre-made writing curriculum and texts. The way curricular materials used during writing instruction in ELA courses present the purpose of writing, the process of writing, and the identity of writers can impact student learning and academic identity in the short- and long-term. A rhetorical analysis, looking specifically at the writing …
Literary Labyrinths: Reading Like A Detective, Emma A. Hallock
Literary Labyrinths: Reading Like A Detective, Emma A. Hallock
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
Studying literature is like walking through a labyrinth of interpretative possibilities. So, it is no mystery why an English major would be fascinated with detectives; they seem to show the way out of the literary labyrinth. Like detectives, literary critics look for clues in the texts they study and interpret them to find meaning. However, many critics argue that detectives make bad models, and that reading like a detective leads to interpretations that are at best boring and at worst dangerous. It is not clear whether detectives are the best literary critics or the worst. To make sense of this …