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Flarr Pages #68: Autobiography And Travel: Motivation For Writing In World Languages Classes, Thomas C. Turner
Flarr Pages #68: Autobiography And Travel: Motivation For Writing In World Languages Classes, Thomas C. Turner
FLARR Pages
My idea for motivating compositional skill is to have students write about questions that they will surely be asked when they travel, especially, in my classes, when they travel to Latin America and Spain Students are most commonly asked about their families; about studies and future plans; about jobs, which are usually Summer jobs; and shortly thereafter about their views on love, courtship, and marriage. I have students write composition about these topics, drafts to be revised three times,and then students arrange the statements on one page, front and back. with illustrations. I then laminate the page for them and …
Pedagogical Re-Mediation In Hybrid Courses: A Case Study Of Five First-Year Composition Instructors, Rebecca Middlebrook
Pedagogical Re-Mediation In Hybrid Courses: A Case Study Of Five First-Year Composition Instructors, Rebecca Middlebrook
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
As the move to increase availability of composition courses in the online environment continues, it is important to understand the ways in which composition instructors have taken on the challenges associated with moving their teaching online and how they modify, or re-mediate, their pedagogy for the this new teaching and learning environment. This study takes on the task of examining re-mediation as it occurs in the pedagogical practices used by instructors to facilitate peer review activities in hybrid, first-year composition courses. At the same time, it is important to understand the varying factors that may influence the degree to which …
Correlation Between Exit Examination Of Writing Proficiency Results And Freshman English Grades In Washington State Distance Learning Students, Angela M. Musto
Correlation Between Exit Examination Of Writing Proficiency Results And Freshman English Grades In Washington State Distance Learning Students, Angela M. Musto
OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers
The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a relationship between Washington State undergraduate students' freshman English composition grade and their success on Old Dominion University's Exit Examination of Writing Proficiency.
Bringing "Abnormal" Discourse Into The Classroom, Virginia M. Tucker
Bringing "Abnormal" Discourse Into The Classroom, Virginia M. Tucker
English Faculty Publications
Assuming student discourse is prone to error, teachers have long implemented rules that ensure "safe" discourse, particularly in composition instruction. My fifth grade teacher taught me to place a comma in a sentence whenever I take a breath rather than teaching me the language of comma rules. To my dismay, many of my first-year composition students raise their hands in agreement that they too have been taught to place a comma wherever their lungs suggest. These students learn to call independent clauses a complete sentence, and to them an ellipsis is merely “dot, dot, dot.” In an attempt to reach …