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  • Fostering Authority in Readers and Writers

    Creator:
    Love, Jennifer Mary
    Abstract:
    As a reader and as a teacher of introductory reading and writing courses, I am persuaded by the concept of a genuine authority in which all readers both value and seek to examine their early readings of texts. What I have come to regard as a pretended authority or mastery,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    than a masterful authority, I sometimes, in my teaching and reading and writing, still search for and

  • 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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    that collapsing three years of writing study into one year and shifting the burden of instruction to

  • 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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    source for comics worthy of study. Teachers might have reasons to teach comics all up and down the