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Multimodal Writing Of University Students: The Case Of Academic Posters, Noha Ibrahim Fouad
Multimodal Writing Of University Students: The Case Of Academic Posters, Noha Ibrahim Fouad
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After having been marginalized for a long time as a second-class genre or “the poor country cousin of papers” (Swales & Feak, 2000), academic posters have recently received remarkable attention as a special multimodal genre that is indispensable for the membership of the academic community. In line with the currently growing interest in multimodal writing, the present study seeks to contribute to the limited body of knowledge on academic posters in two ways: first by investigating the textual and visual communicative strategies employed by novice multimodal writers to facilitate the comprehension of their multimodal texts and guide readers through their …
A Pedagogy Of Access Advocacy, Molly E. Ubbesen
A Pedagogy Of Access Advocacy, Molly E. Ubbesen
Theses and Dissertations
ABSTRACT
A PEDAGOGY OF ACCESS ADVOCACY
by
Molly E. Ubbesen
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2020
Under the Supervision of Professor Shevaun Watson
I propose “a pedagogy of access advocacy” for students and teachers based on practices developed in the first-year composition classroom. A pedagogy of access advocacy aims to destigmatize the access needs of students and teachers by inviting them to share and support each other’s needs and to center and celebrate the creation of collective access. This dissertation brings together theories and methodologies from composition, rhetoric, disability studies, teacher action research, and critical discourse analysis to examine student reflections …