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  • Comics in the classroom

    Creator:
    Mosher, Brian S.
    Abstract:
    As the necessity grows for undergraduate English teachers to incorporate various multimodal texts into their course material due to the changing landscape of what is considered English studies, comics can be an increasingly viable source for such texts. This thesis introduces several formal qualities of comics available for teachers to...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Sandman into a class on William Shakespeare's plays. This issue of Sandman, "A Midsummer Night's Dream

  • The role(s) of literature in introductory composition classrooms

    Creator:
    Caster, Peter
    Abstract:
    First year college writing classes originated in the United States at Harvard University in 1874. Since then, theorizing such a course has proven a place of contention, as its purposes and subjects have proven difficult to sort and impossible to agree upon. When Harvard first began teaching introductory composition, literature...
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    Masters Thesis
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    by many of the leading teachers of English throughout the country. William Mead, 1903 From the

  • In Pursuit of Literacy

    Creator:
    Freemole, George Maynard
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    My teaching experiences raised questions about the nature of literacy, especially about its relationship with education and schooling. Common sense, straightforward definitions of literacy failed to address those questions adequately, and that inadequacy led to the study which culminates in this thesis. In Pursuit of Literacy focuses on literacy in...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Mike Rose : composing a reading of inclusion

    Creator:
    Jameson, Sara
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    Mike Rose researcher, professor, scholar, and author of numerous articles and books including the literacy memoir - Lives on the Boundary - has been active in the field of education and composition for over 30 years. This thesis looks back at the development of the discipline of composition studies to...
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    Masters Thesis