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Bridging The Gap: Why Many High School Writers Are Not Successful In College Composition Classes, Amy Stutzman Park
Bridging The Gap: Why Many High School Writers Are Not Successful In College Composition Classes, Amy Stutzman Park
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It may be useful to identify this so-called gap that seems to plague first-year college writers before attempting to discover why it exists. In order to identify the gap, I want to define these writers who are leaving high school and finding difficulty in college composition classes. Patricia Bizzell defines basic writers as "those who are least well prepared for college" (Bizzell "What Happens When Basic Writers Come to College?" 294). I'd like to broaden her definition of basic writers and use the term "inexperienced writers" as the field now defines them. In order to fully understand why most college …
The Need, Feasibility, And Means Of Establishing A Speech Center, Julie Carter Irvin
The Need, Feasibility, And Means Of Establishing A Speech Center, Julie Carter Irvin
Theses and Dissertations
According to Tom Shachtman, "the speech of too few people achieves eloquence, and that of the vast majority does not even reach a tolerable level of articulate behavior" (5). Articulate behavior has not always been a rare characteristic; from antiquity through the mid-twentieth century, the study of rhetoric was privileged and considered necessary for a well-rounded education. If today's society is inarticulate, then how can eloquence and articulateness be reintroduced as staples of a successful person in today's society? The answer is easy - through the study of rhetoric. After examining the study of rhetoric from antiquity to the present, …