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Saternus Dissertation-Multilingual Literacy Practices In One Community.Pdf, Julie Saternus Jul 2019

Saternus Dissertation-Multilingual Literacy Practices In One Community.Pdf, Julie Saternus

Julie Saternus

Scholars writing in translingual studies view language boundaries as fluid, consider multilinguals to have options that include shuttling back and forth between languages in order to achieve their rhetorical goals, and argue that monolingual ideologies are harmful. Translingual studies is part of a movement away from structuralist conceptions of language, and within translingualism language is viewed as "flexible, unstable, dynamic, layered, and mobile" (Blommaert, 2016, p. 244).

This dissertation focuses on the translingual literacy practices of multilingual members of the Japanese/English school community at this university. I analyze writing processes, speech, and media usage of members of this community (English …

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James Slevin And The Identifying Practices Of Composition., Bruce Horner Sep 2016

James Slevin And The Identifying Practices Of Composition., Bruce Horner

Bruce Horner

No abstract provided.

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Rewriting Composition : Moving Beyond A Discourse Of Need., Bruce Horner Sep 2016

Rewriting Composition : Moving Beyond A Discourse Of Need., Bruce Horner

Bruce Horner

This essay argues that calls to end, move beyond, or expand composition participate in a discourse of need that accepts and reinforces the legitimacy of dominant, and restricted, definitions of not only composition but also alternatives to it: what we are led to believe is “new,” “different,” and therefore “better” than composition as conventionally defined. I analyze the operation of this discourse in David Smit’s The End of Composition Studies, Sidney Dobrin’s Postcomposition, and calls to make up for composition’s ostensible lacks by supplementing it with rhetoric or multimodal composition or by renaming it “writing studies.” Drawing on J. K. …

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Irrigation: The Political Economy Of Personal Experience, Carol Reeves, Alan W. France Aug 2015

Irrigation: The Political Economy Of Personal Experience, Carol Reeves, Alan W. France

Carol Reeves

No abstract provided.

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Preparing Students To Manage Technical Communication Projects In A Global Community, Stevens Amidon Nov 2013

Preparing Students To Manage Technical Communication Projects In A Global Community, Stevens Amidon

Stevens R. Amidon Dr.

No abstract provided.

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Project Management For Professional Writers: Can This Course Be Taught, Stevens Amidon Nov 2013

Project Management For Professional Writers: Can This Course Be Taught, Stevens Amidon

Stevens R. Amidon Dr.

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Building Literacy Connections With Graphic Novels: Page By Page, Panel By Panel, James Carter Dec 2006

Building Literacy Connections With Graphic Novels: Page By Page, Panel By Panel, James Carter

James B Carter

A book devoted to using graphic novels in the classroom for authentic literacy experiences, focusing upon pairing graphica with young adult or canonical texts. The URL is to the book's page at the publisher's.

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