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Gains in Achievement with Access to Three Types of Scripted Activities on Elaboration in a Freshman Composition Class 

Boutwell, Ashli (2007-12-15)
This study investigated associations between pair and group scripted revision activities and the outcome variables of holistic scores and elaboration criterion scores on a high-stakes community college writing exam. The ...

Identifying Tutor Teaching Strategies: A Case Study of Questioning, Scaffolding and Instruction in the English Center 

Morrison, Miranda (2008-05-15)
The field of cognitive science has provided us with a large quantity of research concerning one-to-one teaching strategies used by tutors in multiple fields. However, writing centers have been slow to research these ...

Literacy, Literature, and Pedagogy in Two Nineteenth-Century Alabama Normal Schools 

Horn, Pamela Johnston (2014-07-24)
Six of Alabama’s eleven state universities began as normal schools during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Florence State Normal School and Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School created empowerment for individual ...

Multigenre Rhetoric: Where Genre Theory and Feminist Composition Theory Meet 

Conway, Timothy (2006-05-15)
My purpose is to argue that multigenre rhetoric could be used as a pedagogical supplement to expository writing, which is taught as the norm in freshman composition. The history and development of genre theory and feminist ...

Multiple Visions of the Research Paper: How Compositionists and Librarians Understand, Represent, and Teach the Research Process 

MacDonald, Amanda (2010-04-05)
This thesis project examines how composition and library science scholars understand, represent, and teach the research process. Librarians and instructors have been similarly affected by technology, so they must discover ...

A Real Reflection of How I Write: Young Adult Female Authors Seizing Agency Through Fan Fiction 

Coleman, Susanna (2008-05-15)
This research project examines 'fan fiction' (stories based upon existing texts such as movies, books, and video games) written by a young adult female and posted online for others to read. The research was conducted in ...

Using Film to Teach Rhetoric and Multimodal Literacy 

Miller, Kristen (2010-10-21)
As communication becomes increasingly more visual and multimodal, there have been calls within the field of composition studies to adapt to these changes and better prepare students to be critical consumers of the communication ...

Writing Conference Interaction and Scaffolding: The Possible and the Actual 

Demott, Miles (2006-05-15)
Writing conferences during the freshman composition course are characterized by role-based, dyadic interactions between a teacher and his or her students that have implications for students’ development in academic writing. ...