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Where we have been matters: offering non-traditional students greater opportunities for personal connections to "academic discourse"
Author(s):O'Neill, Tifarah Hadassah
Date Issued:2012
Format:born digital; masters theses
With 73 percent of students now being classified as non-traditional in some way according the U.S Department of Education, it is clear that the student populations at the two year colleges as well as universities are no ...
Reconsidering the fourth canon: rhetoric, memoria, and composition in the digital age
Author(s):Clark, Meagan
Date Issued:2013
Format:born digital; masters theses
In this thesis, I argue that the rhetoric we teach and the context included in composition textbooks should comprise the discourse applicable not only to the academic discipline of composition but be equally relatable to ...
Goals in the dual credit classroom: language as dual credit power
Author(s):Armstrong, David Lee
Date Issued:2013
Format:born digital; masters theses
From pen-to-paper submission to plagiarism filters such as Turnitin.com, Composition instruction tools change, and instructors at every level must adapt to technological advances. Despite changes at all levels, students' ...
Autoethnography of local music culture in northern Colorado, An
Author(s):Schicke, Joseph Andrew
Date Issued:2011
Format:born digital; masters theses
The following thesis investigates common ideologies as manifested in the rhetoric of local musicians, musician employers and musician advocates. I use an autoethnographic method in which I use the interview data of local ...
Composition united: improving articulation between two-year and four-year colleges
Author(s):Lee, Kari
Date Issued:2011
Format:born digital; masters theses
In 1977, Mina Shaughnessy posed what she believed was an "embarrassingly rudimentary question"-- "What goes on and what ought to go on in the composition classroom?" (320). Over thirty years later, the answer to this ...
"Who is 'you'?": teaching authentic approaches to audience and genre in first-year composition
Author(s):Crowe, Sara
Date Issued:2013
Format:born digital; masters theses
Ours is a highly digitized society, and accordingly, so are the daily practices of communication in composition classrooms. Students of the digital age bring with them a new and continually evolving language into their ...
Teaching digital ethos: emphasizing the rhetorical impact of hypertextuality and intertextuality in the digital environment
Author(s):DeCuir, Erin E.
Date Issued:2014
Format:born digital; masters theses
The need to adapt traditional techniques of rhetorical analysis to new and emergent forms of digital technology is one of the current challenges confronting rhetoric and composition pedagogy (Warnick, 2001; Hocks, 2003; ...
Tension of writing across the curriculum, a subservient and subversive curricular movement, The
Author(s):Norwood-Klingstedt, Matthew
Date Issued:2020
Format:born digital; masters theses
A Writing Across the Curriculum Program (or proponent or article) that does not seek to transform the classroom into a locus of consciousness-raising and liberating education is not one that is in keeping with the original ...
Opening the Black box of the 2015 Baltimore riots: an actor-network theory contribution to composition
Author(s):Koban, John Edward
Date Issued:2016
Format:born digital; masters theses
The purpose of this project is to experiment with new ways of supplementing the "social turn" in composition by using Actor-Network Theory (ANT) as a methodology. In demonstrating the ways ANT could support composition, I ...
Tactical Thirdspace: the physical and virtual spaces of community literacy
Author(s):Haltiwanger, Talisha
Date Issued:2013
Format:born digital; masters theses
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 ...