Wil Linkugel And Gifting 101,
2012
University of Richmond
Wil Linkugel And Gifting 101, Mari Boor Tonn
Rhetoric and Communication Studies Faculty Publications
Wil Linkugel was many things, among them a fabled storyteller. Given the chance to get in the last word—a comment I trust would yield his winning, wide grin—I return his favor by beginning with my own Wil origins tale. With his beloved wit, he might dryly point out that I am a starring fıgure in places in the Wil Linkugel narrative. But, in truth, he plays both the leading roles and a vast cast of supporting ones throughout—in the truest meanings of such words. With a dutiful spoiler alert, the basic plotline of the brief essay that follows is this: …
Process Writing Instruction In Practice; When Revising Looks Like Editing,
2012
Montclair State University
Process Writing Instruction In Practice; When Revising Looks Like Editing, Emily Isaacs
Department of Writing Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
To better understand the short-term effectiveness of process-writing methodologies, a three-week qualitative study of a ninth grade integrated, untracked English class in an economically and racially diverse suburban-urban community in New Jersey was conducted. During the three week period of study focused on studying and writing a paper related to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, students were engaged in drafting, peer and expert reader review, as well as instructor feedback and guided revision practices. After blind review of first and last drafts by three independent readers, revised student drafts were deemed either "somewhat stronger" or "stronger than first drafts. Evidence …
Prose And Polarization: Environmental Literature And The Challenges To Constructive Discourse,
2012
Claremont McKenna College
Prose And Polarization: Environmental Literature And The Challenges To Constructive Discourse, Paige E. Costello
CMC Senior Theses
This work explores how authors employ literary modes to persuade readers towards one side or another of the environmental debate and whether the works promote constructive discourse on environmental issues. It uses two seminal works from each side of the environmental discourse, Silent Spring and The Population Bomb and The Ultimate Resource and The Skeptical Environmentalist, to analyze stylistic differences and similarities, to compare public reception, and to explain the increasing polarization of environmental discourse.
The Headless Paragraph: Back-Forming Topic Sentences,
2011
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
The Headless Paragraph: Back-Forming Topic Sentences, Dan Gleason
Writing Bootcamp Unit
This exercise is designed to give students practice in creating and understanding topic sentences. Rather than asking students to create their own paragraphs headed with topic sentences, this exercise gives students the paragraphs and asks them to synthesize the topic sentences from the content provided. Such back-formation can help students grasp that a topic sentence does not merely start the paragraph, but also organizes and summarizes its key content.
Authorial Intent In The Composition Classroom,
2011
Chapman University
Authorial Intent In The Composition Classroom, Ian Barnard
English Faculty Articles and Research
This article examines the disjunction between, on the one hand, critical theory’s critique of the privileging of authorial intent in protocols of textual interpretation, and, on the other hand, continued obeisance to authorial intent in composition textbooks and pedagogy. By unpacking the implications of this disjunction, I show the limitations that the reification of authorial intent creates for composition pedagogy and student writing. I conclude by suggesting how bracketing authorial intent in the composition classroom might enhance composition pedagogy and student writing, while also challenging fundamental epistemologies of the field.
Constructive Engagement: Second Life In The Composition Classroom,
2011
Boise State University
Constructive Engagement: Second Life In The Composition Classroom, Richard Nathan Samuelson
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
The recent development of digital tools has spurred educators to think differently about how they teach and how they can use computers in their classrooms. The use of virtual worlds, in particular Second Life, in higher education has been the focus of quite a few studies, although few if any researchers have evaluated the value of Second Life in a hybrid implementation of a first year composition course. This thesis is based on such an experiment—in the fall of 2010, I taught 23 students in a hybrid English 101 course that included Second Life in the first three assignments. The …
Levi's Go Forth Campaign: A Semiotic Analysis Of "America",
2011
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Levi's Go Forth Campaign: A Semiotic Analysis Of "America", Christina Nicole Baker
Communication Studies
No abstract provided.
The Genre Of Abolition Rhetoric And Frederick Douglass' "What To The American Slave Is The Fourth Of July?",
2011
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
The Genre Of Abolition Rhetoric And Frederick Douglass' "What To The American Slave Is The Fourth Of July?", Kelsey Lauren Fisher
Communication Studies
In this paper, I identify the critical elements that characterize the genre of abolition rhetoric. Then, I offer Frederick Douglass' speech, "What to the American Slave is the Fourth of July?", as the ideal abolitionist speech.
Comments And The Classroom Context: Investigating Students’ Rhetorical Relationships To Instructor Response,
2011
Boise State University
Comments And The Classroom Context: Investigating Students’ Rhetorical Relationships To Instructor Response, Jeremy C. Branstad
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Jane Mathison-Fife and Peggy O'Neill, along with Nancy Summers, have decried the lack of student voices in composition studies' literature on teacher response. Responding to these researchers' concerns, I present three exploratory case studies of student readers of commentary within their classroom contexts. Using reading theory's insight that the interpretive act is always both subjective and socially situated, these case studies demonstrate that a richer literature on written feedback is possible through a consideration for student perspectives and for the cultural, institutional, and instructional factors that influence their understandings. At the same time, these case studies also illuminate the complexity …
A Disciplined And Virtuous Vampire,
2010
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
A Disciplined And Virtuous Vampire, Holland (Holly) Brown
Communication Studies
No abstract provided.
The Features Of The Voice Of African American Tradition: An Analysis Of African American Rhetoric For The Influence Of The Call Response Technique,
2010
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
The Features Of The Voice Of African American Tradition: An Analysis Of African American Rhetoric For The Influence Of The Call Response Technique, Laura Venezia
Communication Studies
This project explicates the nature of the rhetorical strategies, especially the call response, used by various African American artists and orators (Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and Public Enemy). The techniques include the interplay of repetition and heightening emotion provided especially through 1. using the “call response” directly, 2. announcing jeremiad warnings and rallying cries, and 3. using potent images to arouse emotions—the objective correlative.
Pragmatism, Disciplinarity And Making The Work Of Writing Visible In The 21st Century,
2010
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Pragmatism, Disciplinarity And Making The Work Of Writing Visible In The 21st Century, Michael W. Kelly
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This dissertation outlines how Pragmatism, as a philosophy richly conceived, can act as a useful intervention on three levels ranging from the pedagogical issues surrounding teaching writing teacher to labor issues Composition. In contemporary writing center scholarship, conversations about the utility of theory are hotly debated. Throughout much of its disciplinary history, much writing center scholarship has taken a decidedly best practices approach to its research. This emphasis on applicability is challenged by the trend in some pockets of the field that have incorporated a theoretical bent into their work. The effect of this work has been met with skepticism. …
Editing An Anthology: Editing, Publishing & Blogging,
2010
Kennesaw State University
Editing An Anthology: Editing, Publishing & Blogging, Jessica R. Allgaier
Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects
Editorial work for proposed anthology collection, "The Oxford American Book of Great Nonfiction Writing"
The Ruse Of Clarity,
2010
Chapman University
The Ruse Of Clarity, Ian Barnard
English Faculty Articles and Research
This essay interrogates the concept of “clarity” that has become an imperative of effective student writing. I show that clarity is neither axiomatic nor transparent, and that the clear/unclear binary that informs the identification of clarity as a goal of effective student writing is itself unstable precisely because of the ideological baggage that undergirds its construction. I make this argument by finding the traces of composition’s insistence on student writers’ clarity in the attacks on the writing of critical theorists.
