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  • Designed to fit : tailored technologies for medical practitioners

    Creator:
    de Brum, Silvina
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    Although electronic medical records systems (EMR) present promising benefits, they have not yet been widely adopted. A problem facing many EMR are that they are disruptive technologies; their complex hardware and software are not designed to account for the clinicians' characteristics and needs, thus, demanding a steep learning curve and...
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    EMR are that they are disruptive technologies; their complex hardware and software are not designed

  • Modalities of responding to student writing : how the medium shapes the message

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    Mosser, Sarah E.
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    With the rapid development of new computer mediated technologies, instructors have more options of the modalities of responding to student writing. Whereas traditionally, responses have been written by hand, technological developments allow responses to take very different forms. Some of these technologies, such as word processing, mimic the text-on-page techniques...
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    Sara E. Jameson With the rapid development of new computer mediated technologies, instructors

  • A blank screen? : digital divide discourses and practices

    Creator:
    Powell, Jasmine
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    The existence of a “digital divide,” or inequalities of access to digital technologies among different American subpopulations, has been hotly debated and contested since the National Telecommunications and Information Administration first popularized the phrase in 1995. The purpose of this thesis is to critically examine the dominant discourses around the...
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    require access to a computer (primarily for the operating software, also included within this category

  • Principles and practices in online writing instruction

    Creator:
    Cole, Gail
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    This thesis explores the administrative issues that factor into the teaching of writing online. I explore these issues by situating the Conference on College Composition and Communication Position Statement of Principles and Example Effective Best Practices for Online Writing Instruction at the center of this project by both examining and...
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    expression of these individuals is through digital writing (Hewett xvii, Warnock xix). Computer and

  • A material approach : Anne Frances Wysocki and new media

    Creator:
    Margoni, Travis
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    Anne Frances Wysocki, a scholar in the field of new media and composition studies, has published many articles, book chapters, a textbook, and is a major contributor to a multi-authored collection titled Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. This thesis considers the five openings...
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    the logic of computer and software structures (6). Wysocki argues that a fundamental focus on

  • 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.
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    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...
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    recounted in his 1995 article “If it Ain’t Broke, Why Fix It?: Disruptive and Constructive Computer

  • 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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  • Little houses on the prairie : a predictive model of French-Canadian settlement in Oregon's Willamette Valley

    Creator:
    Kinoshita, Jun R.
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    Using GIS, this study creates a predictive model of a distinct population of French-Canadian settlers, highlighting shared environmental characteristics of known sites that may have factored into their decision-making process as they chose locations for their farmsteads. While traditional historic and archaeological research has been conducted on French Prairie, the...
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    software package was used. This was chosen for its accessibility and versatility. The criteria used to

  • An exploration of information and communication technology use on the part of Eritrean refugees in Rome, Italy

    Creator:
    Opas, Matthew E.
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    Thesis explores the ways in which Information and Communication Technology (ICT)use, specifically that of telephones and the Internet, impacts the lives of Eritrean refugees in Rome, Italy. Informal interviews, semi-structured interviews, and participant observation were carried out in a 'center of second reception.' Results show that information obtained through the...
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  • The Writer’s Path: Exploring the Writing Studio Through the Lens of Activity Theory

    Creator:
    Sylvester, Ruth E.
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    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...
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    before the personal computer - the year my father was supposed to graduate from college - in a