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Challenging Dominant Ideologies In Order To Center Marginalized Voices And Enrich Learning: Theorizing Social Justice In English Studies Teaching, Heather Holliger
Challenging Dominant Ideologies In Order To Center Marginalized Voices And Enrich Learning: Theorizing Social Justice In English Studies Teaching, Heather Holliger
Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects
This portfolio explores the reproduction of and challenges to dominant ideologies in popular culture and scholarly contexts and examines pedagogies for advancing social justice in the field of English studies through three distinct but interconnected projects. The first project considers pedagogy in the public sphere, examining the power of the meme genre to serve as “critical public pedagogy” within movements for social change. The second project focuses on the role of dominant norms in reproducing social injustices through classroom writing assessment, offering insights from antiracist, queer, feminist, decolonial, translingual, and disability justice scholars. The paper also reviews composition scholars’ strategies …
Amanda Schertzer English Ma Portfolio, Amanda Schertzer
Amanda Schertzer English Ma Portfolio, Amanda Schertzer
Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects
This is the final portfolio for my Master's of Arts in English with a specialization in Professional Writing and Rhetoric. The information herein includes an analytical narrative and four projects that I feel best illustrate my knowledge, skills, and academic/ professional growth. These four pieces are titled "Understanding, Retention, and Access as An Explanation for Absence of Medical Writing Style: Historical and Modern Perspectives," "The Infographic: What Is It?" "Expressivist Pedagogy: An Applicable Approach?" and "Historical Fiction or Historical Inaccuracy? Historical Inaccuracies Within Little House on The Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder."
Final Master's Portfolio, Quinn Mcadam
Final Master's Portfolio, Quinn Mcadam
Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects
This portfolio demonstrates exploration of technical communication through the research lenses of the automotive industry and the beauty industry, as well as through direct experience with both technical editing and technical writing. It exemplifies how technical communication contributes to the everyday lives of people worldwide, and how it can constantly be improved moving forward in everyday situations. With two research essays and two practical projects, this portfolio demonstrates the current climate of technical communication: a balance between academics and practitioners. In a time when technical communication is still new, there is much exploration to be done, and this collection of …
Journey’S End: A Final Ma Portfolio, Rachel Evans
Journey’S End: A Final Ma Portfolio, Rachel Evans
Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects
Designed for and rooted in the power of revision and growth over the course of a degree's worth of learning, this is a final portfolio completed for BGSU's Master's of Arts in English degree.
Reflections In Passion And Progress: Blending Vision, Resilience, And Evolution As A Writer And Scholar Of The English Language, Elizabeth Scoville
Reflections In Passion And Progress: Blending Vision, Resilience, And Evolution As A Writer And Scholar Of The English Language, Elizabeth Scoville
Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects
The following is a final master's degree portfolio of revised graduate work in English composition. Consisting of four projects, this portfolio highlights research, theory, and applications in multidisciplinary writing, visual argumentation, linguistics pedagogy, and professional editing. The pieces within reflect significant growth and adaptation in the field of English comprehension and writing, where successful compositions walk hand-in-hand with innovation, audience acknowledgement, and the willingness to change as language ebbs and flows with the passage of time.