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...
The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of a
tutoring program and a traditional program in improving achievement
for students registered in low achiever English classes in reading
comprehension, language usage skills and spelling as well as student
interest in the study of English. For this study...
The purpose of this study was to determine the importance and
the frequency of use of certain communication skills to job-entrylevel
mechanics as assessed by employers, educators at various levels,
and entry-level industrial mechanics. The study was conducted in
Lane County, Oregon. Communication skills investigated for importance
and for frequency...
The purpose of this pilot study was to determine whether students
using a series of planned exercises designed to improve typewriter
composition skills would be better able to compose at the typewriter
than students in a control group. The study was also concerned with
the effect that the use of...
As a reader and as a teacher of introductory reading and writing courses, I
am persuaded by the concept of a genuine authority in which all readers both
value and seek to examine their early readings of texts. What I have come to
regard as a pretended authority or mastery,...
Shifting the Scholarly Conversation: A Rhetorical Reading of Peter Elbow's Work explores Peter Elbow's contributions to the field of writing and rhetoric. Over the course of his long career, Elbow’s scholarly and pedagogical work has been much praised and much criticized. Elbow's work has influenced generations of teachers and writers,...
This thesis explores the evolving purposes for the teaching of first-year English composition in Belize. Starting from an analysis of the underlying cultural assumptions of U.S. composition pedagogies, this thesis argues that American composition pedagogies need to be rethought when applied in a Belizean context to fulfill the country's unique...