Browsing by Author "Sidler, Michelle"

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Conversations in Story(ality)

Morris, Amanda (2010-07-22)

In this dissertation, I introduce and define my new term, story(ality), which requires refocused attention on the truths available through nonfiction stories told, written, and performed in a contact zone, which is a social ...

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 ...

Insurrection in Red Ink: The Literary Murder of a 20th Century Goddess

Privett, Katharyn (2006-08-15)

The 20th century literary archetype of the Maternal Goddess had its most locatable beginnings in the late Victorian landscape of poetry and prose. Although goddess imagery had been historically manipulated to serve Victorian ...

Long Strange Trip: Mapping Popular Culture in Composition

Campbell, Jennifer (2006-05-15)

Popular culture has been a continuing research and teaching interest for compositionists since the 1950s, but the focus, tone, and quality of popular culture scholarship and pedagogy have been far from consistent. In the ...

Monsters, Men and Machines: Gender in Literature and Film, 1942 - 1962

Farmer, Angela (2008-05-15)

In the construction of the ideologically abject we see the creation of its manifestation: monstrosity. Just as the Kristevian abject, which is neither subject nor object, is my starting point, the Deleuzian --Y´Desiring ...

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 ...

Neoliberal Rhetoric in Higher Education

Sexton, Robin (2016-11-09)

The volatile political and economic environment that surrounds US higher education at this time calls for a nuanced understanding of the greater issues impacting programs, missions, and governance in post-secondary ...

Pens, Paper and Football Plays: A Case Study of Student Athlete Literacy

Rifenburg, James (2009-04-20)

Football players, as their community of practice demands, perform a high level of complex literate practices. While the literate activity of football is closely parallel to that we require of students in first year ...

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 ...

Redrawing the Maps for the Transfer of Writing Skills and Knowledge

Matthews-Bradshaw, Eunice (2015-07-30)

This research examines the case studies of two participants, students at a large land-grant university, as they transfer their knowledge of writing skills and practices across contexts as evidence of the shifting nature ...

Towards in/Vention in the 21st Century: A Philosophical Case Study

Campbell, Trisha (2010-04-05)

This thesis offers a philosophical treatise on Invention in the 21st century, positing our current oppositional dialectic as problematic. Thus, I move to offer a way out of this dialectical negation in order to really ...

The Truth is Online: Digital Reality and Remediating The X-Files

Boyko, Nodya (2009-05-01)

In my MA thesis, I argue that the remediation of cultural artifacts enables users of web 2.0 technologies to redefine their interactive experiences with mass media and to blur the line between digital and real. My research ...

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 ...

Virtual Academic Community: Online Education Instructors’ Social Presence in Association with Freshman Composition Students’ Critical Thinking and Argumentation

Paquette, Paige Fuller (2009-07-31)

There is much literature addressing challenges face-to-face freshman composition instructors encounter in developing college courses that foster critical thinking skills crucial to developing written argument. Composition ...