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Affiliation and Participation: What Fannish Practices Can Tell Us About Building Community in the Writing Center
Title
Affiliation and Participation: What Fannish Practices Can Tell Us About Building Community in the Writing Center
Author
Mayfield, Hannah
Date Created
2016
Subjects--Topical
Rhetoric
Description
This thesis examines the discursive activity of participatory fannish practices and the opportunities they afford the university writing center in responding to student writing. The project begins with an analysis of participatory fandom; specific...
But Is it Service-learning?
Title
But Is it Service-learning?
Author
Steele, Lucy
Date Created
2019
Subjects--Topical
Rhetoric, Education
Description
Two-year schools serve a high population of traditionally marginalized students, including students of color, first-generation college students, older students, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds (Ma & Baum, 2016). Historically, two-y...
Employing Agency: Multiple Perspectives of Material Conditions, Power, and Literacy in a First Year Writing Program
Title
Employing Agency: Multiple Perspectives of Material Conditions, Power, and Literacy in a First Year Writing Program
Author
Rand, Meaghan
Date Created
2014
Subjects--Topical
Education, Rhetoric
Description
The purpose of this study is to examine how first year writing teachers' histories and experiences affect teacher agency negotiation in their classrooms. Five qualitative case studies of first year writing instructors are used to discuss the impac...
Fans Like Us: Anti-shipping, Othering, and the Reauthoring of Fandom
Title
Fans Like Us: Anti-shipping, Othering, and the Reauthoring of Fandom
Author
Bradburn, Madison
Date Created
2023
Subjects--Topical
Rhetoric, English language--Composition
Description
The following thesis focuses on Anti- and Pro-shipping debates, their rhetorical behaviors, and their impacts on fandom spaces. These debates center around "shipping," the act of romantically pairing characters from media in fan productions such a...
Performing Student, Teacher, and Tutor of Writing: Negotiating Ideas of Writing in a First-year Writing Course and Writing Center Tutorials
Title
Performing Student, Teacher, and Tutor of Writing: Negotiating Ideas of Writing in a First-year Writing Course and Writing Center Tutorials
Author
Courtney, Jennifer
Date Created
2009
Subjects--Topical
Language arts, Rhetoric
Description
Based upon the sociocultural theories of Vygotsky, Bakhtin, Bourdieu, Holland et al. and the work of composition scholars such as Welch, Brannon et al., and Bousquet et al., who oppose neoliberal privatization, this qualitative study explores how ...
Psychonautica: Rhetorical Patterns Within Self-Reported Psychedelic Narratives
Title
Psychonautica: Rhetorical Patterns Within Self-Reported Psychedelic Narratives
Author
Amezquita, Joseph
Date Created
2020
Subjects--Topical
Rhetoric, Religion, Spirituality
Description
An analysis was completed of the rhetorical and discursive patterns found in thenarratives of altered states of consciousness on the website Erowid.org, a repository ofinformation about psychoactive plants, chemicals, and related topics, as well a...
Telling Stories for The Last of Us: A Ludonarrative Trauma Analysis
Title
Telling Stories for The Last of Us: A Ludonarrative Trauma Analysis
Author
Buescher, Holly
Date Created
2023
Subjects--Topical
Literature, Rhetoric, Sex role
Description
In this thesis, I propose that The Last of Us franchise functions as an exemplar on how survival horror video games are uniquely situated as a genre and medium to make precise statements about empathy, complicity, and trauma. However, upon applyin...
The Multiple Writing Genres of Online Learning: Students' Experience of Writing in the Online Classroom Space
Title
The Multiple Writing Genres of Online Learning: Students' Experience of Writing in the Online Classroom Space
Author
Wilson, Lynn
Date Created
2012
Subjects--Topical
Education, Higher, Rhetoric, Educational technology
Description
Based upon theories of computer mediated communication of Herring and Lemke and the work of genre scholars such as Askehave, Santini, and Devitt, this qualitative study explored how computer mediated communication shapes writing genres in an onlin...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Writer's Identity
Title
What We Talk About When We Talk About Writer's Identity
Author
Cortez, Jessie
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Rhetoric
Description
Although it is used by some first-year writing (FYW) instructors to help students improve their writing, the term "writer’s identity" does not have a clear, agreed-upon definition. This study therefore investigates the use of "writer’s identity" i...