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Using Online Genres To Promote Students’ Audience Awareness, Elena Taylor
Using Online Genres To Promote Students’ Audience Awareness, Elena Taylor
Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence
Writing assignments that students complete in university courses are typically designed for evaluation and grading by the instructor, who, therefore, acts as the sole reader of student written work. However, most written genres students would--and do--encounter in the world beyond the classroom are composed for diverse audiences who influence writers’ text construction considerably. Because most students will be likely to write for multiple audiences as part of their career or future academic endeavors, it is crucial for them to develop a sense of audience awareness as an indispensable rhetorical concept that shapes composing processes. Writing online presents a great opportunity …
Full Issue: Journal On Empowering Teaching Excellence, Volume 5, Issue 2, Fall 2021
Full Issue: Journal On Empowering Teaching Excellence, Volume 5, Issue 2, Fall 2021
Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence
The full Fall 2021 issue (Volume 5, Issue 2) of the Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence
The Ibc-Why Model: Juggling Structure And Rhetorical Theory In The First-Year Composition Classroom, Jessica Anne Cyphers
The Ibc-Why Model: Juggling Structure And Rhetorical Theory In The First-Year Composition Classroom, Jessica Anne Cyphers
Masters Theses
This thesis addresses the issue of structure in the composition classroom. In particular, it looks at the history of the five-paragraph essay and the scholarly debate that has surrounded it for more than fifty years. By doing a stasis analysis, the author discovers that scholars have been talking past each other at the level of definition. Based on this finding, the author proposes the development of a new organizational model—the Introduction-Body-Conclusion (IBC) model—by which student can improve their understanding of structure across genres. In addition, by applying the IBC model to the Composition 101 program at the University of Tennessee, …
There Is No "Right Answer:" Teaching As Exploration, Dawson Zimmerman
There Is No "Right Answer:" Teaching As Exploration, Dawson Zimmerman
Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects
A Final Portfolio Submitted to the English Department of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the field of English with a specialization in English Teaching.
Teaching Writing: Genre Lessons For Teaching Writing In The Homeschool High School Classroom And Beyond, Teagan R. Knoblich
Teaching Writing: Genre Lessons For Teaching Writing In The Homeschool High School Classroom And Beyond, Teagan R. Knoblich
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
Most high schoolers in America operate with basic writing skills at best (U.S. Department of Education, 2012). Students who are educated at home, or homeschoolers, may be only marginally better in their writing skills, if at all. A review of materials available to home educators for the instruction of their homeschool students revealed that available writing curricula does not do a good job covering more than a few basic writing forms, such as research and narrative. This creative project aimed to create writing instruction materials that could be used by home educators to teach their high school students how to …
Toward A Genre Writing Curriculum: Schooling Genres In The Common Core State Standards, Michael J. Maune
Toward A Genre Writing Curriculum: Schooling Genres In The Common Core State Standards, Michael J. Maune
Open Access Dissertations
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS), published in 2010 and adopted by the majority of U.S. states, established a set of expectations for student writing in K-12 education. In describing these expectations, the CCSS used three general “text type” classifications: Narrative, Informative/Explanatory, and Argumentative. While the CCSS outlines the general expectations for students writing in these text types, the linguistic and genre expectations were not fully expressed. This study examines 34 student exemplar texts provided in an appendix to the CCSS in order to determine the genre and linguistic expectations for student writing in K-12 education. Using a genre typology …
Stepping Into Science Fiction: Understanding The Genre, Diane Barone, Rebecca Barone
Stepping Into Science Fiction: Understanding The Genre, Diane Barone, Rebecca Barone
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
This manuscript focuses on fifth graders’ understanding of science fiction. It is argued that it is necessary for students to understand both reading strategies and the key elements of a genre for comprehension. Students read The Giver within literature circles and conversation and written responses about the book were used for analysis. It was found that students often focused on the same aspects of text and noticed several elements of science fiction.
Trends In Children's Literature And The Social Implications, Rebecca A. Johnson
Trends In Children's Literature And The Social Implications, Rebecca A. Johnson
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
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