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Teaching The Reading/Writing Connection In The Diverse Community College Classroom, Claudia Eleanore Wissbeck-Kittel
Teaching The Reading/Writing Connection In The Diverse Community College Classroom, Claudia Eleanore Wissbeck-Kittel
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis argues that with the racial and ethnic diversity becoming more pronounced in the diverse disciplines of the two year college we are going to need to adapt a cultural studies pedagogy in the writing class.
A Rhetorical Study Of Edward Abbey's Picaresque Novel The Fool's Progress, Kent Murray Rogers
A Rhetorical Study Of Edward Abbey's Picaresque Novel The Fool's Progress, Kent Murray Rogers
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis addresses this question of why Abbey employed such rhetoric and what resulting effects he hoped to achieve. Examining Abbey's rhetoric in terms of classical Western rhetorical traditions, the genre of the picaresque, and his own ideological stance can aid in understanding what his intentions are in this controversial work.
English Writing Placement Assessment: Implications For At-Risk Learners, Janis Linch Banks Fisher
English Writing Placement Assessment: Implications For At-Risk Learners, Janis Linch Banks Fisher
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis reviews literature regarding English writing placement assessment and its impact on at-risk (under-prepared) college students.
Composition And Technology: Examining Liminal Spaces Online, Carmen Michelle Fye
Composition And Technology: Examining Liminal Spaces Online, Carmen Michelle Fye
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis examines how composition studies have been, and continue to be, shaped by the cultural values of exclusion; this field is "continually magnif[ied] and reproduc[ed] in the complex social conditions connected with those values in fundamental ways much like educational systems in general."
Constructing Critical Readers And Writers Through The Teaching Of Irony In The Composition Classroom, Bruce Stephen Wolcott
Constructing Critical Readers And Writers Through The Teaching Of Irony In The Composition Classroom, Bruce Stephen Wolcott
Theses Digitization Project
The construction of critically literate students must be paramount among goals in the freshman composition classroom. The approach for constructing critical readers positioned in this thesis employs conceptualizing both the complexity of a text and the importance of comprehending the context within which a text is both read and written. It utilizes the rhetorical feature of irony.
Constructing Experiential Learning In The Language Arts Classroom, Terrylee Hutton Marzell
Constructing Experiential Learning In The Language Arts Classroom, Terrylee Hutton Marzell
Theses Digitization Project
Recent research in educational practice has identified and emphasized the value of connecting school curriculum to the personal experiences of the students; but to be effective, learners must possess a collection of baseline experiences the teacher can connect new learnings to. If the baseline experiences are lacking, the instructor could choose to create a classroom experience upon which to build additional learnings.
Alternative Pedagogies For College Composition, Diana Marie Ramseyer
Alternative Pedagogies For College Composition, Diana Marie Ramseyer
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis attempts to determine if the acquisition of rhetorical and grammatical skills such as a sense of audience and organization are best attained through an alternate pedagogy based on a methodology from Wendy Bishop or if they are better attained through a traditional approach.