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Applying Kenneth Burke's Dramatistic Pentad For Revision Strategies For Inexperienced Writers, Joette Ilene Whims Jan 2002

Applying Kenneth Burke's Dramatistic Pentad For Revision Strategies For Inexperienced Writers, Joette Ilene Whims

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No abstract provided.


Computers And Composition Communities: Solidarity As A Research Paradigm, Richard James Colby Jan 2002

Computers And Composition Communities: Solidarity As A Research Paradigm, Richard James Colby

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After a brief history of composition studies demonstrating a community realizing the need for more inclusive research practices, this thesis shows composition struggling with its identity as an academically legitimized discipline.


The Effects Of Storytelling On Student Writing: A Tool For The English Language Learner Classroom, Heather Margret-Marie Mead Jan 2002

The Effects Of Storytelling On Student Writing: A Tool For The English Language Learner Classroom, Heather Margret-Marie Mead

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This thesis examines the use of storytelling as a tool to facilitate writing in English language learners. It examines specifically the effects storytelling had on the student use of expressive language, story structure and creativity in their writing. It also analyzed the enjoyment level storytelling brought to the writing experience of the student.


Social Distance, Motivation And Other Factors Contributing To Success In Language Acquisition And Achievement Among Adolescent Mexican Immigrants, Alice Yvette Muniz-Cornejo Jan 2002

Social Distance, Motivation And Other Factors Contributing To Success In Language Acquisition And Achievement Among Adolescent Mexican Immigrants, Alice Yvette Muniz-Cornejo

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Adolescent immigrant English learners who enter U.S. schools at the secondary level are faced with challenges that distinguish their experience in second language acquisition from that of children and adults. Some of the challenges they face include limited time to acquire academic English proficiencey in reading and writing, difficulty in assimilating into English speaking American culture, and limited programs and services at the secondary level.


The Power Of Voice: Cultural Silencing And The Supernatural In Women's Stories: Allende's The House Of The Spirits, Kingston's The Woman Warrior, And Morrison's Beloved, Katie Suzanne Skrove Jan 2002

The Power Of Voice: Cultural Silencing And The Supernatural In Women's Stories: Allende's The House Of The Spirits, Kingston's The Woman Warrior, And Morrison's Beloved, Katie Suzanne Skrove

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This thesis focuses on a study of the female voice and silencing as well as on the use of the supernatural in selected works of literature from three different cultures: Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, and Toni Morrison's Beloved.


Critical Thinking And Ideology: A Study Of Composition's Secondary Curricula, Jonathan Barney Anderson Jan 2002

Critical Thinking And Ideology: A Study Of Composition's Secondary Curricula, Jonathan Barney Anderson

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In 1992 Maxine Hairston "Diversity, Ideology, and Teaching Writing" claimed that instead of teaching writing and critical thinking skills, First year Composition (FYC) instructors were instead using their classrooms as coercive political platforms that were detrimental to students' educational needs.


English Writing Placement Assessment: Implications For At-Risk Learners, Janis Linch Banks Fisher Jan 2001

English Writing Placement Assessment: Implications For At-Risk Learners, Janis Linch Banks Fisher

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This thesis reviews literature regarding English writing placement assessment and its impact on at-risk (under-prepared) college students.


Constructing Critical Readers And Writers Through The Teaching Of Irony In The Composition Classroom, Bruce Stephen Wolcott Jan 2001

Constructing Critical Readers And Writers Through The Teaching Of Irony In The Composition Classroom, Bruce Stephen Wolcott

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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.


Teaching The Reading/Writing Connection In The Diverse Community College Classroom, Claudia Eleanore Wissbeck-Kittel Jan 2001

Teaching The Reading/Writing Connection In The Diverse Community College Classroom, Claudia Eleanore Wissbeck-Kittel

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This thesis argues that with the racial and ethnic diversity becoming more pronounced in the diverse disciplines of the two year college we are going to need to adapt a cultural studies pedagogy in the writing class.


Constructing Experiential Learning In The Language Arts Classroom, Terrylee Hutton Marzell Jan 2001

Constructing Experiential Learning In The Language Arts Classroom, Terrylee Hutton Marzell

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Recent research in educational practice has identified and emphasized the value of connecting school curriculum to the personal experiences of the students; but to be effective, learners must possess a collection of baseline experiences the teacher can connect new learnings to. If the baseline experiences are lacking, the instructor could choose to create a classroom experience upon which to build additional learnings.


Alternative Pedagogies For College Composition, Diana Marie Ramseyer Jan 2001

Alternative Pedagogies For College Composition, Diana Marie Ramseyer

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This thesis attempts to determine if the acquisition of rhetorical and grammatical skills such as a sense of audience and organization are best attained through an alternate pedagogy based on a methodology from Wendy Bishop or if they are better attained through a traditional approach.


A Rhetorical Study Of Edward Abbey's Picaresque Novel The Fool's Progress, Kent Murray Rogers Jan 2001

A Rhetorical Study Of Edward Abbey's Picaresque Novel The Fool's Progress, Kent Murray Rogers

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This thesis addresses this question of why Abbey employed such rhetoric and what resulting effects he hoped to achieve. Examining Abbey's rhetoric in terms of classical Western rhetorical traditions, the genre of the picaresque, and his own ideological stance can aid in understanding what his intentions are in this controversial work.


Composition And Technology: Examining Liminal Spaces Online, Carmen Michelle Fye Jan 2001

Composition And Technology: Examining Liminal Spaces Online, Carmen Michelle Fye

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This thesis examines how composition studies have been, and continue to be, shaped by the cultural values of exclusion; this field is "continually magnif[ied] and reproduc[ed] in the complex social conditions connected with those values in fundamental ways much like educational systems in general."


Unlimiting Writers' Agency And Alleviating Writer's Block, Cassundra Lynett Flemister-White Jan 2000

Unlimiting Writers' Agency And Alleviating Writer's Block, Cassundra Lynett Flemister-White

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This thesis examines two causes of writer's block developed during the revision stage of the composing process: instructors' unexplained notations and unwanted voice alterations within students' texts. The study examines the emotions students experience caused by instructors' actions which Nelson and Rose say contribute to temporary and even permanent cases of writer's block. After exemplifying the connection between emotions and writer's block, the remainder of the study focuses on finding solutions to these causes of writer's block. As a result of my research, I discovered the primary solution is communication between instructors and students.


Embellishing The Art Of Writing Instead Of Impairing It During First-Grade Studies, Maria Carmen Canelo Jan 2000

Embellishing The Art Of Writing Instead Of Impairing It During First-Grade Studies, Maria Carmen Canelo

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No abstract provided.


Men's Gossip, Miguel Orlando Reid Jan 2000

Men's Gossip, Miguel Orlando Reid

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This paper presents seven conversations of men from a variety of backgrounds, in a variety of environments. I analyze the discussions to determine if they can be characterized as typical gossip, and to compare their interaction styles to the men and women of past studies on gossip.


Writing To Learn In The Secondary Social Studies Classroom: Strategies For The Disinclined, Sharon Price Mckiernan Jan 2000

Writing To Learn In The Secondary Social Studies Classroom: Strategies For The Disinclined, Sharon Price Mckiernan

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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 Jan 2000

Writing Anxiety And The Developing Writer, Barbara Lois Kime Shields

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No abstract provided.


Language, Myth, And Perceptions In Writing About The Natural Environment, William Laurence Redman Jan 2000

Language, Myth, And Perceptions In Writing About The Natural Environment, William Laurence Redman

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No abstract provided.


Jane Eyre's Gricean Conversational Portrait, Heather Christine Castillo Jan 2000

Jane Eyre's Gricean Conversational Portrait, Heather Christine Castillo

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No abstract provided.


Ken Burns' Baseball: Argument In Documentary, Shannon Rogers Jan 2000

Ken Burns' Baseball: Argument In Documentary, Shannon Rogers

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No abstract provided.


Teaching Basic Writing In The Midst Of The Great Literacy Debate, Robin Archibald Jan 1999

Teaching Basic Writing In The Midst Of The Great Literacy Debate, Robin Archibald

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No abstract provided.


Large-Scale Portfolio Assessment: Pitfalls And Pathways, Candace June Gilbert Jan 1999

Large-Scale Portfolio Assessment: Pitfalls And Pathways, Candace June Gilbert

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No abstract provided.


Teaching About Conflict And Values Through Children's Literature, Annette Christine Manno Jan 1999

Teaching About Conflict And Values Through Children's Literature, Annette Christine Manno

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No abstract provided.


The Sufi Teaching Story And Contemporary Approaches To Composition, Linda Kathryn Burgess Jan 1999

The Sufi Teaching Story And Contemporary Approaches To Composition, Linda Kathryn Burgess

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No abstract provided.


Hitchcock's "Rebecca": A Rhetorical Study Of Female Stereotyping, Elizabeth Irene Langenfeld Jan 1999

Hitchcock's "Rebecca": A Rhetorical Study Of Female Stereotyping, Elizabeth Irene Langenfeld

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No abstract provided.


An Aristotelian Study Of Positive Mental Attitude Literature, Michael Loring Jan 1999

An Aristotelian Study Of Positive Mental Attitude Literature, Michael Loring

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No abstract provided.


Teaching Collaborative Writing To Meet The Needs Of The Job Market: A Model, Denise Kruizenga-Muro Jan 1999

Teaching Collaborative Writing To Meet The Needs Of The Job Market: A Model, Denise Kruizenga-Muro

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No abstract provided.


Untangling Contradictions: The Uses Of You In Composition, Nicole Marie Rosenbaum Jan 1999

Untangling Contradictions: The Uses Of You In Composition, Nicole Marie Rosenbaum

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No abstract provided.


A Writing Improvement And Authentic Assessment Plan, Erelyne Lewis Marks, Barbara Mabey Oliver, Maureen Sugar Wolter Jan 1998

A Writing Improvement And Authentic Assessment Plan, Erelyne Lewis Marks, Barbara Mabey Oliver, Maureen Sugar Wolter

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No abstract provided.