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  • Creative Placemaking as a Composition Pedagogy

    Creator:
    Yerace, Marisa
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    This thesis explores the ways in which creative placemaking, a neighborhood-based practice for building community, can offer community-building and civic action wisdom as a model for composition. This model brings attention to spatial metaphors for rhetoric and teaching that have persisted for millennia; it re-focuses us on community; it encourages...
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    the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 14, 2020. Title: Creative Placemaking as a

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

    Creator:
    Terriere, Jordan E.
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    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...
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    have the support they need in order to teach a rigorous college writing course, I argue that dual

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

    Creator:
    Clark, Jillian
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    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'...
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    Masters Thesis
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    argument writing as part of students’ “college readiness.” In a survey and analysis of the argument

  • Picture this, imagine that : the literary and pedagogic force of ekphrastic principles

    Creator:
    Pajak, Zachary E.
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    My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled "Interpreting Britomart's Encounters with Art: The Cyclic Nature of Ekphrasis in Spenser's Faerie Queene III," and "Picture This, Imagine That: Teaching Visual Literacy in the Disciplines." The purpose of my first article is to argue that Edmund Spenser uses ekphrasis in his...
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    the poem: a magic mirror forged by Merlin, a tapestry telling the story of Venus and Adonis, and a