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Transmission Overhaul: Negotiating The Shift In Information And Knowledge Construction Among Generation M, Thomas Timothy Hite
Transmission Overhaul: Negotiating The Shift In Information And Knowledge Construction Among Generation M, Thomas Timothy Hite
Theses Digitization Project
This research draws upon recent research in the area of digital semiotics and offers a framework of remediation in the attempt to encourage the acceptance of digital composition as a valid space of rhetorical production.
An Innovative Approach To Grammar Instruction In The High School Language Arts Classroom, Robert John Miller
An Innovative Approach To Grammar Instruction In The High School Language Arts Classroom, Robert John Miller
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The purpose of this study was to compare the effects on student writing of two separate approaches to teaching grammar - one traditional, and one non-traditional. Over the course of four weeks, the writing abilities of two high school English classes, similar in composition and academic skill, were compared.
Focus In The Structure Of Concepts In Analytic Discourse, Julia Carlson Merrill
Focus In The Structure Of Concepts In Analytic Discourse, Julia Carlson Merrill
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The primary focus of this thesis was to find out what makes workable topic sentences different from inadequate ones. A group of topic sentences was collected from the author's eight grade students and reviewed.
Negotiating "Post" Era Writing Pedagogies, Hannah Sloan Holbrook
Negotiating "Post" Era Writing Pedagogies, Hannah Sloan Holbrook
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This study examines how post-process theories are being defined, negotiated, and enacted in composition classrooms. While recognizing that most composition instruction remains shaped by modern and process oriented theories, this research asks how post-process considerations might be currently informing teaching practices in some classrooms.
Genre In First Year Composition: The Missing Link To Transferability?, Sandra Patricia Halsey
Genre In First Year Composition: The Missing Link To Transferability?, Sandra Patricia Halsey
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis suggests the incorporation of "Genre Theory" into First Year Composition (FYC) at California State University (CSUSB) as a means of alleviating the lack of transfer of what is learned in FYC to other university writing. In examing the feasibility of that incorporation, it takes into consideration the demands made on the FYC course across universities and specifically at CSUSB.
Stephen Gosson's Rhetorical Strategies In The School Of Abuse, Timothy Paul Johnson
Stephen Gosson's Rhetorical Strategies In The School Of Abuse, Timothy Paul Johnson
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This thesis shows how Stephen Gosson's The School of Abuse (1579) functions as a rhetorical composition. The elements of writer, readership, and text are each examined in order to elucidate the rhetorical decisions made by Gosson during the composition of The School.
Professional Writing: How California State University, San Bernardino's Master Of Arts In English Composition Can Prepare Graduates For Careers In The Public Sector, Margaret Celia Cecil
Professional Writing: How California State University, San Bernardino's Master Of Arts In English Composition Can Prepare Graduates For Careers In The Public Sector, Margaret Celia Cecil
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis explores the need for a professional writing track in the Master of Arts in English composition program at California State UnIversity, San Bernardino. The current English literature, English composition, and TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) tracks are discussed as well as the certificate in professional writing currently available.
The Knowledge And Skills Of Freshman Writers, Aram Paul Sarkisian
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.
Connecting Composition And Literature Through The Rhetorical Situation, Maria Luisa Douglas Notarangelo
Connecting Composition And Literature Through The Rhetorical Situation, Maria Luisa Douglas Notarangelo
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis suggests that the idea of the rhetorical situation-a work's text (or language), author, audience, and social context-can serve as a connection between literature, literary theory, and composition studies. Criticisms of Emily Dickinson's Poem 754 are presented, and each is categorized according to the element of the rhetorical situation upon which it focuses.
The Old Man And The Sea: Hemingway, Heteroglossia, And The Hero's Voice, Carole Sue Spitler
The Old Man And The Sea: Hemingway, Heteroglossia, And The Hero's Voice, Carole Sue Spitler
Theses Digitization Project
In this subjective hero concept lies an intriguing aspect of Bakhtin's paradigm: A hero is not necessarily a living entity; a hero can be ideas, objects and locations. When viewed through the lens of traditional western rhetorical theory, Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea appears as a monologue wherein Santiago seemingly speaks for the author about the subject of doom and man's relationship to the world.
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.
Writing To Learn In The Secondary Social Studies Classroom: Strategies For The Disinclined, Sharon Price Mckiernan
Writing To Learn In The Secondary Social Studies Classroom: Strategies For The Disinclined, Sharon Price Mckiernan
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis begins with sufficient research to support the contention that secondary teachers should be using writing in the classroom, proceeds to question why some are not, and then supplies specific lesson plan ideas which can be adapted to suit most needs in the secondary history classrooms.
Writing Anxiety And The Developing Writer, Barbara Lois Kime Shields
Writing Anxiety And The Developing Writer, Barbara Lois Kime Shields
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
The Effects Of Using Comprehensive Critical Writing Curriculum On Skills Assessment Test Performance In High School Students, Barbara Ann Brown
The Effects Of Using Comprehensive Critical Writing Curriculum On Skills Assessment Test Performance In High School Students, Barbara Ann Brown
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
An Ethnographic Study Of What Occurred In High School Peer Response Groups And How Their Response Related To Their Revisionary Process, Mike Buchta
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No abstract provided.
Literary Criticism, Composition, And "Passing Theory": Conflicts And Connections, Judy Ann Filsinger
Literary Criticism, Composition, And "Passing Theory": Conflicts And Connections, Judy Ann Filsinger
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
Supporting Emergent Writing In The Kindergarten Classroom, Marianne M. Hussey
Supporting Emergent Writing In The Kindergarten Classroom, Marianne M. Hussey
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No abstract provided.
Motivating Underachieving Students To Write, Susan M. Shotthafer
Motivating Underachieving Students To Write, Susan M. Shotthafer
Theses Digitization Project
Middle schools--Writing apprehension--Adolescent motivation--Peer interaction--Student letters--Writing workshops--Literature logs--Student self-evaluation.