United States Judicial System Failures And Solutions,
2021
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
United States Judicial System Failures And Solutions, Braden P. Barker
English Department: Research for Change - Wicked Problems in Our World
For years, the American judicial system has unfairly punished the American people. These actions have led to serious societal consequences. We have prisons that sentence people to harsh punishment for nonviolent offenses, an overfunded and militarized police force, and racial biases that lead to the tragic killings of black people at the hands of the police that are intended to protect and serve us. This essay looks to diagnose the United States judicial system’s woes. More importantly, we take a look at what steps can be taken immediately to begin reversing the negative impact of these issues.
Student Debt Crisis,
2021
Kutztown University
Student Debt Crisis, Celia Diloretto
English Department: Research for Change - Wicked Problems in Our World
Student debt has been dated back to 1965 when the federal government began guaranteeing student loans. Today in 2021 student debt is now a crisis. Solutions have been trialed and errored when trying to forgive student debt, but no one solution seems to work right for students with outstanding debt today. Here are some of the effects student debt can cause and why debt needs to be prevented for future students.
The Ultimate Struggles Of A Classroom,
2021
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
The Ultimate Struggles Of A Classroom, Jackson R. Luneburg L
English Department: Research for Change - Wicked Problems in Our World
Abstract: In a time where classrooms need more development as a whole to be more sustainable for kids that might have learning disabilities, We will look into universal design techniques that teachers could use to help children succeed in their environment. Having some sort of adaptability in the classroom is important for all students. By changing the ways we teach some tools teachers can use will be more comforting for the student with a learning disability to learn at quicker and faster paces. Design and having structure is very effective to student learning efficiency. Looking at new ways to innovate …
One Writer, Two Genres: Composing And Analyzing Creative Nonfiction And Fantasy,
2021
Andrews University
One Writer, Two Genres: Composing And Analyzing Creative Nonfiction And Fantasy, Kara Herrera
Honors Theses
Creative writers face a wide range of options when they sit down to craft art out of words. Available to them are many genres, each with their own characteristics or traits. Additionally, many writers have accomplished self-reflection in interviews, Q&A sessions, and in print. It is not unusual to find writers taking their craft and turning it into their subject matter. This project aims for the same. In order to analyze the similarities and differences in the writing process across genres, a “writing about writing” essay is included along with four creative nonfiction essays and a young adult fantasy novel …
U.S. Prisons And System Reform,
2021
Kutztown University
U.S. Prisons And System Reform, Darian Reimels
English Department: Research for Change - Wicked Problems in Our World
Prison systems, specifically in the U.S., are a wicked problem. For years prisoners have been treated inhumanely inside and outside of prison, with everyone looking at them with a judgmental eye. This essay aims to point out and bring light to these issues within the prison system. Specifically, it focuses on how inmates are treated during and after serving their sentence, and solitary confinement. To better understand and explain the problems to you, extensive research was done. Articles were read, organizations were researched, and a documentary was watched to gather the information needed to write this essay. The results showed …
Narrating The Movement: A Rhetorical Analysis On The Digital Mobilization, Remix, And Hijack Of #Metoo,
2021
Illinois State University
Narrating The Movement: A Rhetorical Analysis On The Digital Mobilization, Remix, And Hijack Of #Metoo, Rocky Roque
Theses and Dissertations
The Me Too movement garnered digital disclosures after Alyssa Milano’s initial tweet in October 2017. Over the period of two years, different remixes of #MeToo surfaced which led to the subsequent hijack of the hashtag. Furthermore, Boyle (2019) argued that the movement can be studied as a “moment” or a “discourse.” Scholars have examined Me Too as a moment, or a singular occurrence that emerged due to mainstream popularity. However, this analysis will study the movement as a discourse, to reveal the intricate interactions present with each remixed hashtag. Through Fisher’s narrative paradigm, an in-depth analysis will be conducted to …
Composing In The Age Of Social Media: Using Social Media Within An Assemblage And Circulation Framework,
2021
Nova Southeastern University
Composing In The Age Of Social Media: Using Social Media Within An Assemblage And Circulation Framework, Monique Cole
All HCAS Student Capstones, Theses, and Dissertations
Social media is changing the landscape of composing and information distribution. As Americans are engaging with more social media platforms, composition and rhetoric scholars should consider the importance of enhancing digital literacy skills when utilizing social media, especially with the spread of misinformation across social media platforms. The thesis argues for integrating social media into composition classrooms to help students become stronger critical composers and consumers of information. The project is informed by scholarship on social media in rhetoric and composition, assemblage, and circulation. By combining assemblage and circulation theories, I develop a Social Media Interaction Framework that views social …
Erasing Student Debt: Slowly But Surely,
2021
Kutztown University
Erasing Student Debt: Slowly But Surely, Roberta Harris
English Department: Research for Change - Wicked Problems in Our World
Furthering your education intends to be the golden ticket when forming the basis of a successful life. Investing in college can have both positive and negative effects regarding where it leads a student in life. Positive aspects include increased job opportunities, higher salaries and wages, as well as a better quality of living. However, rising college costs bring debatable questions as to how students can become better equipped to face this path in life. In order to resolve the student debt crisis, there is need for educators to develop a better system in communicating financial literacy and life skills their …
Writing Diagnostic: Personal Freedom Vs. Public Health,
2021
San Jose State University
Writing Diagnostic: Personal Freedom Vs. Public Health, Avantika Rohatgi
All Assignment Prompts
No abstract provided.
First Year Research Writing: “Research Into Your Roots And What It Tells You About The World”: Two Assignments,
2021
CUNY College of Staten Island
First Year Research Writing: “Research Into Your Roots And What It Tells You About The World”: Two Assignments, Polina Belimova
Open Educational Resources
This is a two-fold first-year college writing Research Writing assignment. In the first part, students do research into their own family/community history. In the second part, they select a particular person, moment, place, or time that they learned about during their genealogical research, and this will become the subject of their research project in the areas of sociology, geography, environmental studies, psychology, or medicine. Students choose what question they would like to explore further and the question itself stems from their family history findings.
Eng 111 First Year Writing,
2021
CUNY College of Staten Island
Eng 111 First Year Writing, Stephanie Corrente
Open Educational Resources
This is a sample syllabus for a first-year writing course. The course is designed for online remote classes but can be used easily face-to-face as well.
A Rhetorical History Of Black Studies: Black Power & Epistemology,
2021
University of Richmond
A Rhetorical History Of Black Studies: Black Power & Epistemology, Kayla Corbin
Honors Theses
In this thesis, using my own experiences and research, I will map out a rhetorical history of Black studies and its relationship with the Black Power Movement in the late 1960s. Using Foucault’s method of genealogy, I will highlight the distinct epistemological assumptions that inform Black studies as a discipline by looking at the material conditions and moment in which the discipline was created. In order to do this, my thesis will interrogate three interrelated discourses of Black studies at the university level: first, the larger history of student activism and its relation to Black studies; second, my own approach …
Supporting Emotion Work In The Writing Center: Harnessing Shared Investments Between Consultants And Therapeutic Counselors,
2021
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Supporting Emotion Work In The Writing Center: Harnessing Shared Investments Between Consultants And Therapeutic Counselors, Nora Harris
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Because of the affective nature of writing pedagogy, writing center consultants regularly perform emotional labor to navigate writers’ emotions as well as their own. This labor is deeply generative in writers’ development. But it also takes an intellectual and emotional toll on writing consultants that often goes unnoticed and therefore undervalued and unsupported. The first step toward properly valuing consultants’ emotional labor is to name the ways it manifests in writing center work. In this thesis, I present a study in which I analyze writing consultants’ narratives of their emotional labor and start to map out the emotional dimensions of …
Building Bridges In First-Year Composition: Investigating The Support Of Threshold Concepts In Writing-Related Transfer Across The Curriculum,
2021
Old Dominion University
Building Bridges In First-Year Composition: Investigating The Support Of Threshold Concepts In Writing-Related Transfer Across The Curriculum, Elise Antoinette Green
English Theses & Dissertations
Drawing on a multiple-case, embedded design (Yin, 2018), I highlight the in-depth differences and similarities that exist across students’ experiences in first-year composition (FYC), looking specifically at whether learners used genre and rhetorical situation as threshold concepts to transfer writing-related knowledge and skills across the curriculum. I designed and conducted this research by drawing on theories of learning transfer (Perkins & Salomon, 1988; 1989; 1992; Salomon & Perkins, 1989), writing-related transfer (Moore, 2017; Nowacek, 2011; Yancey, Robertson, & Taczak, 2014; Yancey et al., 2019), and threshold concepts (Meyer & Land, 2006). Across this study, I collected data as I facilitated …
The Contextualization Of Myth: Identification Of Myth In The Propagation Of Narrative Across Generational Boundaries,
2021
Old Dominion University
The Contextualization Of Myth: Identification Of Myth In The Propagation Of Narrative Across Generational Boundaries, Joseph G. Ponthieux
Communication & Theatre Arts Theses
This thesis demonstrates the unique correlation between myth and the propagation of narrative across generational boundaries. It argues that myth occurs in the intersection of belief, semiotics, and context, and further enables a way of re-encoding a narrative with a dual contextuality. This dual context preserves a narrative’s literal context while endowing it with a new or modified myth context and affords the audience a selection of choices for how to receive a narrative experienced as myth. To demonstrate this correlation a Myth Context Reception Model is designed for the purpose of identifying ascendent, obscure or emergent myths evident in …
Opening And Closing Remarks From The 2021 Watson Conference On Rhetoric And Composition,
2021
University of Louisville
Opening And Closing Remarks From The 2021 Watson Conference On Rhetoric And Composition, Andrea Olinger
Faculty and Staff Scholarship
This document contains the opening and closing remarks of the Watson Director, Andrea Olinger, which she delivered during the 2021 Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, “Toward the Antiracist Conference: Reckoning with the Past, Reimagining the Present.” It also contains the 2021 Watson Conference Commitments and the statement on Watson and Anti-Black Racism.
Undergraduate Perception Of Peer Leadership In The Writing Center,
2021
Nova Southeastern University
Undergraduate Perception Of Peer Leadership In The Writing Center, Sabrina Louissaint
All HCAS Student Capstones, Theses, and Dissertations
Writing center scholarship offers a plethora of research in the field of composition including different practices and skillsets offered to students. Hosten et al. (2016) describe writing centers to be an incubator for leadership skills, one that creates a blueprint for student leaders to succeed. Situated within the field of composition and rhetoric, this IRB-approved thesis acknowledges a gap in research on the role writing centers play in the development of undergraduate consultants’ leadership skills. Through interviewing various writing center directors as well as current and former undergraduate consultants from five universities, I examine peer leadership perception, while uncovering the …
The Communicative Constitution Of Environment: Land, Weather, Climate,
2021
University of South Florida
The Communicative Constitution Of Environment: Land, Weather, Climate, Leanna K. Smithberger
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
My project examines the communicative constitution of environment: how we mediate environment in discursive practice, and arrange chaotic and complex timeplaces into organized relationships of agents and objects which act and are acted upon. Climate scholars across disciplines are calling for a paradigm shift in how we understand, study, inhabit, and relate to Earth’s varied environments. In this dissertation, I demonstrate how communication practices do the work of constituting the environment as we know it, and therefore conclude with the hopeful suggestion that these same practices can be used to do the work of a paradigm shift — that is, …
Administrative Rhetorical Mindfulness: A Professional Development Framework For Administrators In Higher Education,
2021
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Administrative Rhetorical Mindfulness: A Professional Development Framework For Administrators In Higher Education, Melvin E. Beavers
Academic Labor: Research and Artistry (2017-2022 archives)
As part of the post-secondary educational landscape, online programs and courses help institutions reach and enroll more students. To meet the needs of increased enrollments in online education, part-time faculty are often hired to teach online courses. Part-time contingent faculty represent a growing majority across many fields of study in colleges and universities. As Rendahl & Breuch reported, first-year courses, specifically freshman composition, are increasingly taught online. This study uses a mixed-methods design to examine how, and in what ways, writing program administrators (WPAs) approach preparing part-time faculty to teach writing online. The findings reveal that WPAs often encounter workload …
We Could Convert The Lines, But Not The People: A Postmortem On Changing Working Conditions In A Writing Program,
2021
University of Wisconsin-Superior
We Could Convert The Lines, But Not The People: A Postmortem On Changing Working Conditions In A Writing Program, Jamie White-Farnham
Academic Labor: Research and Artistry (2017-2022 archives)
In the conversion of part-time adjunct instructor positions at a small college, institutional limits and personal perspectives on what it means to be an adjunct instructor clashed with both newer principles and decades-old arguments in rhetoric and composition to improve working conditions.
