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Creative Placemaking as a Composition Pedagogy

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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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Masters Thesis

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Association and the Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile/US Bank Foundation, sent out a call for proposals, and
Mike Rose : composing a reading of inclusion

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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

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Master of Arts in English presented on April 28, 2004. Title: Mike Rose: Composing a Reading of
"Style upon style": The Handmaid's Tale as a palimpsest of genres

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Boulware, Taylor J.

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This thesis undertakes an examination of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, as a layering of genres. A futuristic dystopia that imagines late twentieth-century America as having fallen into neo-Puritanism and totalitarianism following widespread infertility and violence, The Handmaid’s Tale invites contemplation of various forms of fundamentalism, radicalism, and...

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Masters Thesis

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, 2008. Title: "Style Upon Style": The Handmaid's Tale as a Palimpsest of Genres Abstract approved