Each year, almost half of America's new freshmen begin their college careers with an unpleasant surprise: the need to enroll in remedial classes. These classes, for which students do not earn college credit, are the result ...

The transition from high school to college signals a significant change in what students are expected to know and be able to do in an educational context, especially with reading and writing. Many researchers, teachers, ...

In this study, I explore a school district's blogging engine, one that I helped to develop. Using both qualitative and quantitative methodology, I attempt to better understand how a school-sponsored online space might ...

While identity research has recently become popular in the field of language acquisition, most of the research conducted in this area has been qualitative in nature. Possibly due to the lack of quantitative identity research, ...

This thesis examines the role of comics in rhetoric and composition studies. By examining Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, this thesis shows that comics employ specific forms of visual-verbal rhetoric that ...

Using the lens of Edward Soja's Thirdspace, this thesis investigates the physical and virtual spaces of two community literacy programs. This study makes use of narrative inquiry and presents a thematic analysis of the ...

This study explores the use of objective measures to assess writing quality. Coh-Metrix 2.0, an online text analysis tool, was used to measure 54 linguistic properties of argumentative essays written by English as a Second ...

Since the Post-9/11 GI Bill was signed into law in August 2009, hundreds of thousands of student-veterans and more than $3.6 billion have poured into college campuses nationwide. Student-veterans have brought with them ...