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  • The Oregon State University Writing Center : history and context

    Creator:
    Weintraub, Melissa R.
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    The Oregon State University (OSU) Writing Center: History and Context provides a detailed and multi-faceted view of the Writing Center from its start in 1976 through the present. The information was gathered from interviews, annual reports, archival sources, and scholarly research. Chapter One examines the scholarly conversation about writing centers,...
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    ......................................................... 157 Appendix C: Number of Student Contacts in the Oregon State University Writing Center by Major

  • On the Rhetorical Disability of Students with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Rhetorical Approach to the Trauma-Informed Teaching of College Composition

    Creator:
    McDowell, Amanda J.
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    Composition scholars who have written about trauma have typically focused on creating classrooms that are conducive to healing and learning. In doing this work, however, they have considered neither how PTSD nor other people’s responses to it can impact one’s perceived rhetoricity in the college classroom. In other words, they...
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  • Ecuador's informal sector : an analysis of gender and empowerment programs

    Creator:
    Ota, Brandy
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    Over the last 25 years structural adjustment programs have challenged Ecuador's ability to provide adequate social services and employment opportunities. In the wake of these policies, many women have turned to non-governmental agencies for possible solutions and assistance. Empowerment programs as a form of development work in particular have been...
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    ............................................... 87 Appendix C: Cartoon Exercise .................................... 88 DEDICATION To my daughter

  • Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

    Creator:
    Faris, Michael J.
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    In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of blogs in order to understand their potential use in the composition classroom with the goals of students writing for a public audience and developing their rhetorical and civic agency. I do so by exploring the potential for the blogosphere as a public...
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    be a virtual community “when there are a) a minimal number of b) public interactions c) with a

  • 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 Listening Cure: Theorizing Gender Fluid Performance through Katharine Hepburn’s Transatlantic Accent

    Creator:
    Dawson, Katherine
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    My mother named me after Hollywood icon Katharine Hepburn, but what made a working-class girl grow to love this posh celebrity so much? The obvious answer is that my mother aspired to be posh herself; but lack of money or sophistication were not the only things impacting her potential— there...
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    , Logical and musical reading and declamation, with exercises in prose and verse, (C. Shepard, 1845) 27

  • 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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    Subject Index of Works by Rose in this Thesis ................ 124 C Extended Annotated Bibliography of

  • Writing home : memoirs of a working-class student

    Creator:
    Lathrop, Arminda W.
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    This collection of personal essays, inspired by Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory, raises questions about the separation that becomes apparent through writing, education, and transitions between class. The author uses her personal experience of writing in, and attending a private university to explore the interactions of class, literacy, and education....
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  • A rhetoric of transformation : the emergence of community literacy within composition studies

    Creator:
    Vega-Peters, Susan T.
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    Within literacy and composition studies, writing, as a social act, is believed by many to have the potential to effect change in and transform situations of injustice. Community literacy, as an emergent practice within composition studies, embraces and stretches this notion of linking literacy to social change. Community literacy also...
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  • Revisiting hypertext communities of practice

    Creator:
    Breitenfeldt, Jeffrey
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    This thesis is an exploration of writing from two communities of practice addressing different aspects of hypertext--an electronic medium used to link text, images, and other content such that it can be accessed by users non-sequentially. In particular, I examine multiple narratives of hypertext development and key theoretically oriented approaches...
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