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This project investigates the factors that influence the decisions instructors in Florida State's English Department make about using or not using digital projects in their classes, and specifically how influential the English Department...
Bob Jones University Press (BJU Press) is a publishing house owned by the Greenville, South Carolina university of the same name. Fulfilling Bob Jones' mission beyond the college classroom, BJU Press prints a full K-12 educational...
This dissertation investigates the resources that students use to learn new digital technologies to complete course assignments. This work is particularly important in a time when teachers are assigning more multimodal projects. If...
This dissertation develops a model of material composing knowledge, which considers the role that surfaces, environments, and tools play in the composing processes of student writers as they shift their writing practices across multiple...
This project explores the emergence and development of researched-writing in first-year composition as it is represented in English Journal, College English, and Indiana University Archives circa 1912-1962. By analyzing this corpus...
This dissertation analyzes Quality Enhancement Plans (QEPs) focused on improving writing. The study’s first research question asks how the construct of writing is defined, and what is described as valuable about writing, in the language...
This dissertation explores the ways writing assessment manifests within everyday writing, a category of writing wherein writers write for their own purposes and under their own volition, in order to provide an alternate approach to...
As studies in sound continue to emerge in the field (Ceraso, 2018; Danforth, Stedman, & Faris, 2018; Hawk, 2018), this dissertation seeks to describe how and why writing instructors are using music in their college writing classrooms, ...
Situated at the intersection of research on writing transfer, dual coding theory, and concept mapping, this empirical research study investigates students' representation, development, and transfer of conceptual writing knowledge across...
In this study, I re-theorize identity and self-positioning as central focuses of feminist composition pedagogy by building a theory of ethos as epistemology within writing studies. My study moves ethos beyond a mere rhetorical strategy...
This dissertation develops notes towards a descriptive model of literate practice by reporting on a study of student work collected from a course on 21st Century writing and editing and analyzed using a combination of coding and deep...
The Emperor of Shoes follows a long tradition of 20th century Jewish-American writers--Bellow, Roth, Paley and Olsen, to name a few--addressing issues of work and commerce in America. My novel, however, carries this tradition into the...
Several waves of calls for writing centers to address digital and multimodal texts exist, dating back to the 1980s. While these conversations gained momentum at the turn of the century with the popularization of multiliteracy centers and...
Scholarship on collaboration has long extolled its benefits, which include developing student awareness of audience (Howard, 2001; Newkirk, 1984), promoting better writing (Bruffee, 1984; Foote, 1998), promoting increased understanding...
Global conflict presents an interesting visual (or lack thereof) for scholars of the humanities, for in these contests, the human is hard to see. Much like many philosophical dualities, when one culture runs into another in a space of...
This dissertation presents a writer-informed portrait and definition of everyday writing. The writers informing this portrait and definition represent five different age groups—one participant each in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s...
On February 21, 1871, Mrs. Cooper surrendered her one-month-old son Walter to the Foundling Asylum of the Sisters of Charity of New York, a Catholic institution designed to care for unwanted and abandoned infants, along with the letter...
Although response scholarship has continually called for a greater emphasis on context when analyzing instructors' written commentary on student writing, textual analysis of written comments remains a primary direction for response...
This thesis aims to trace the evolution of cognitive writing research within the field of rhetoric and composition from approximately the 1960s to the contemporary moment. While the "cognitive turn" is widely recognized as an influential...
This thesis observes and analyzes embodied student activism as it is preserved across seven processed and unprocessed collections in Florida State University’s Heritage and University Archives. The analysis is framed by Peg Syverson’s...
This study examines issues surrounding writing center social media usage and non-usage, a topic that is often discussed in informal venues like conference sessions and blogs hosted by writing centers but is seldom researched....
This dissertation presents a novel approach to tracing the history of techne in 1990s through a data feminist curation methodology that selects, models, visualizes, and analyzes a selection of 1990s journals in Rhetoric and Composition....
This research study investigates the influence of two general education composition curricula on students' writing knowledge development, writing knowledge complexity, and concurrent writing knowledge transfer. This study uses case study...
In this thesis project, I explore the rhetorical consequences of mixed race Black people's racialization in Pre-Reconstruction nineteenth century. Toward this end, I ask: How did the language surrounding mixed race Black people's...
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