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    Reconstructing social futures: digital voices in first-year writing

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    Abstract
    This thesis explores the benefits of bringing students' out-of-school digital literacies into the first-year composition (FYC) classroom, and investigates whether or not this can provide students access to critically analyze their actions on these platforms. I taught a self-designed FYC course focusing on critically producing, and consuming, self-representations on the social networking sites Facebook and Instagram. Through a grounded theory approach, I completed an analysis of 17 students' assigned blog posts and surveys, and selected six students to construct richly descriptive portraits (RDPs). ...
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    Author(s)
    LaPadura, Emily

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    Sloane, Sarah

    Date Issued
    2015
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    born digital; masters theses
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