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In an increasingly threatening and threatened world—with ongoing climate crises, rampant social injustices, ecological devastation, and the related consequences of language use—writing and living sustainably are of vital importance ...
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...
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 is a mixed methods study of race, language, and writing using the racial equity gaps in student success data as a starting point for the conversation that calls the fields of Rhetoric and Compositions, Literacy Studies, ...
As a means for understanding a wide range of multimodal phenomena, multimodal analysis poses methodological challenges for the novice researcher intent on investigating multimodal communication, especially communication that involves...
Authority is a much contested concept often connected to notions of violence and control, and it emanates variably from class, institution, and now—as I argue—from digital convergence, which is the availability and shareability of...
Laura Greenfield and Karen Rowen argue that in order to realize the change potential within tutor education, writing center directors must look critically at how we have been designing and executing our tutor education courses. This...
While this dissertation was designed to respond to an exigence in scholarship attending to whether students composing texts that are digital and multimodal are influenced in their decisions by classical rhetorical concepts, it was also...
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...
Scholarship on multimodality repeatedly emphasizes the need not just for a multimodal focus in individual composition classrooms but also an integration of multimodality into the composition curriculum. Collectively, this scholarship...
This project presents an analysis of the rhetorical practices of famed radio host Mary Margaret McBride as examined through a selection of her recorded radio broadcasts and written works. Following the tradition of feminist rhetorical...
Scholarship in writing center studies has not yet fully examined the ways in which writing center professionals engage with writers with disabilities. Throughout the history of writing center studies, disability has functioned either as...
Writing studies has witnessed a growing enthusiasm for design thinking (Leverenz; Marback; Purdy; Wible), yet little disciplinary attention has been paid to its role and application in collaborative, interdisciplinary support spaces such...
In order to avoid repeating the patterns of past failed technology initiatives, eschew various types of paralyzing blame cultures, capitalize on the momentum offered by outside stakeholder interest, and maintain the agency to stay...
This dissertation addresses the problem of teacher self-efficacy theory being largely absent as a concept of study in composition studies, despite the field maintaining a primary focus on issues like teacher development and effective...
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, ...
The problem prompting this study is that historically the woman rhetor has been marginalized by virtue of her gender, and indeed still is. Yet, despite their marginalization, women have always found ways to make their voices heard and...
In “Some Thoughts about Feelings, ” Susan McLeod encourages teachers to develop a “theory of affect” that could account for the various emotional processes that students encounter while writing (433). One contribution to such a theory...
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