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Politics, Power, Agency And The End Comment Genre, Cynthia Ann Ruthford Jan 2011

Politics, Power, Agency And The End Comment Genre, Cynthia Ann Ruthford

Theses Digitization Project

The author examines a corpus of teacher end commentary written to first-year writing students' essays. It is looked at as a genre-the end comment genre-in order to perform a rhetorical genre analyis.


Composition, Meditative Thinking, And The Writing Classroom: A Historical Analysis And Empirical Study, Gregory Todd Baran Jan 2010

Composition, Meditative Thinking, And The Writing Classroom: A Historical Analysis And Empirical Study, Gregory Todd Baran

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study is to explore whether meditation is a beneficial practice in the composition classroom and to validate theoretical claims to its efficacy. Core questions centered on whether or not meditation could help lessen writing blocks, get the writer into the "flow" of writing, spark creativity, and ease the overall writing process.


Composition Heuristics And Theories And A Proposed Heuristic For Business Writing, Katharine Louise Peake Jan 2007

Composition Heuristics And Theories And A Proposed Heuristic For Business Writing, Katharine Louise Peake

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This work questions the usefulness of heuristic procedures, within composition in general writing in business in particular, as an effective aid to the generation of written, non-fiction discourse.


College-Level Reading And Writing: Considering Curriculum From A Postmodern Perspective, Brenda Jean Littleton Jan 2005

College-Level Reading And Writing: Considering Curriculum From A Postmodern Perspective, Brenda Jean Littleton

Theses Digitization Project

This project presents qualitative investigations into the relation of science systems to education systems, and suggests post modern constructs as models of systemic change, with application toward reading and writing literacy for the college-level adult learning.


The Knowledge And Skills Of Freshman Writers, Aram Paul Sarkisian Jan 2003

The Knowledge And Skills Of Freshman Writers, Aram Paul Sarkisian

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This research identifies what proficient writers know and do by the end of their freshman year in college and raises the kind of questions that improve the articulation of English instruction.


An Application Of Grice's Cooperative Principle To The Analysis Of Coherence In Basic Writing, Linda Indahwati Abidin Jan 1996

An Application Of Grice's Cooperative Principle To The Analysis Of Coherence In Basic Writing, Linda Indahwati Abidin

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No abstract provided.


Basic Writers, Oral Strategies, And The Writing Process, Deborah Ann Johnson Jan 1992

Basic Writers, Oral Strategies, And The Writing Process, Deborah Ann Johnson

Theses Digitization Project

Linguistic research (differences and similarities between spoken and written language) -- Features of production (coordinating conjunctions, hedges, neuter pronouns, collocations, etc.) -- Features of interaction (personal pronouns, hyperbole, emphatics) -- Textual analysis evaluation -- Comparison of written words, oral features, and essay grades or scores received.


Reading, Writing, And Metacognition: Theoretical Connections And Teaching Methods, Mary Ellen Cushman Jan 1992

Reading, Writing, And Metacognition: Theoretical Connections And Teaching Methods, Mary Ellen Cushman

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Relationships between reading and writing -- Formation of a thought-world that is a cluster of ideas and associations related to a literacy event -- Establishment of a progression of interrelated ideas from the thought-world -- Creation of intersentence cohesion by filling of gaps.


The Recursive Value Of Non-Utilitarian Writing As Applied To Cognitive Domain Theories, Gregory Wallace Gilbert Jan 1989

The Recursive Value Of Non-Utilitarian Writing As Applied To Cognitive Domain Theories, Gregory Wallace Gilbert

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No abstract provided.