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Talking Story, Writing Proper : Pidgin-Speaking Hawaii Writers at Oregon State University

Creator:: Lum, Kristina H. J.
Abstract:: This thesis is based on a two-part study that analyzes the cultural and linguistic characteristics of the Hawaii student population at Oregon State University (OSU). I designed and conducted a survey among Hawaii students at OSU. Then I interviewed ten Hawaii students who self-identified as Hawaii Creole English (a.k.a. Pidgin)...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Literacy narratives across the curriculum

Creator:: Coffey, Marjorie D.
Abstract:: This thesis proposes expanding the locations where literacy narratives are currently used as readings and as writing assignments and considering broad conceptions of the types and uses of literacy narratives read in classrooms. In particular, this thesis asserts the value of expanding the literacy narratives read beyond the current canonical...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A circle of response : addressing the tensions of teacher responseto student writing

Creator:: Carothers, April D.
Abstract:: What students need most from instructors’ written response on their texts is commentary that evokes a sense of exchange. Teachers often believe that their job is to point out the deficits in a student’s paper and help eliminate those deficits. While this is a part of the function of response,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF April D. Carothers for the degree

Charting their own course as writers : a study of writing-intensive students’ self-assessment and goal-setting at start of term

Creator:: Robinson, Tracy Ann
Abstract:: Curricular models and teaching techniques that support college students as the primary authors of their writing-across-the-curriculum experiences remain largely unexplored. This thesis addresses that research gap by investigating the use of a start-of-term writing self-assessment and goal-setting questionnaire (STQ) for upper-division undergraduates taking writing-intensive (WI) college courses in their majors....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: during winter term 2004. Feedback obtained through an end-of-term writing self-evaluation showed that

Chatting, cooking, curating : English language learners as sponsors of literacy in a multicultural literacy center

Creator:: Saleh, Natalie K.
Abstract:: Drawing on Deborah Brandt’s “literacy sponsorship,” this thesis examines ways English language learners (ELLs) in the Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center (CMLC) act as literacy sponsors, sharing their expertise in language, textiles, and cooking, based on nine in-depth interviews with ELLs at the center. The findings of this thesis are presented...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , school, church and work” (39). Barton explains that a “domain” refers to “different places in life

An Exploration of Scholarship on Peer Review in Composition Studies : Looking to the Future with Replicable, Aggregated, and Data-Supported Research Methodologies

Creator:: Day, Jacob E.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the nature of evidence in scholarship on peer review in composition studies. I argue that the nature of evidence present in scholarship on peer review over the past three decades is typically anecdotal, theoretical, and based on limited case studies. I argue that peer review research in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -Supported Methodologies, and the Future of Research in Composition Studies………………….39 Interdisciplinary

The Writer’s Path: Exploring the Writing Studio Through the Lens of Activity Theory

Creator:: Sylvester, Ruth E.
Abstract:: This thesis explores the potential applications for 3rd generation activity theory in writing studio spaces, using the Undergrad Research and Writing Studio at Oregon State University as a focal point. David R. Russell, Nedra Reynolds, and Deborah Brandt have all investigated systemic and communal elements in student writing processes, while...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: peer tutoring, backed up by Melissa Weintraub in a thesis from Oregon State in 2007, 11

When High School Teachers Teach College Writing : Oregon Approaches to Dual Credit Teacher Qualifications, Support, and Professional Development

Creator:: Terriere, Jordan E.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the challenging situation high school dual credit teachers in Oregon face teaching first-year composition in the high school location. I argue that thorough training, support, and professional development are vital for high school teachers teaching dual credit writing courses, who without it may find themselves faced with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: D Writing Program Administrators Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition

Argument and common ground : scholarly research meets the common core state standards

Creator:: Clark, Jillian
Abstract:: This thesis examines the recent history of the teaching of argument and its implications in the face of new writing standards being implemented in K-12 classrooms under the Common Core State Standards. The new educational policies will shift the focus of writing instruction onto argument writing as part of students'...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Together—and into the Classroom” Harker, 2007, “The Ethics of Argument: Rereading Kairos and

Rhetorical Arrangement and the Digital Archive : Finding Women’s Voices in the Linus Pauling Papers

Creator:: Boardman, Colleen
Abstract:: The common imagining of archives characterizes these spaces as monolithic, hallowed sites of preserved truths, carefully catalogued and stored, static and frozen in history and waiting to be uncovered. My thesis works to dispel this myth and identify rhetorical elements of the archive’s structure in order to assess how the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Talking Story, Writing Proper : Pidgin-Speaking Hawaii Writers at Oregon State University

Literacy narratives across the curriculum

A circle of response : addressing the tensions of teacher responseto student writing

Charting their own course as writers : a study of writing-intensive students’ self-assessment and goal-setting at start of term

Chatting, cooking, curating : English language learners as sponsors of literacy in a multicultural literacy center

An Exploration of Scholarship on Peer Review in Composition Studies : Looking to the Future with Replicable, Aggregated, and Data-Supported Research Methodologies

The Writer’s Path: Exploring the Writing Studio Through the Lens of Activity Theory

When High School Teachers Teach College Writing : Oregon Approaches to Dual Credit Teacher Qualifications, Support, and Professional Development

Argument and common ground : scholarly research meets the common core state standards

Rhetorical Arrangement and the Digital Archive : Finding Women’s Voices in the Linus Pauling Papers

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