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Benjamin Miller – College Composition and Communication, 2014
What methods do graduate students take up for their dissertation projects? This article shares findings from distant reading of 2,711 abstracts, suggesting that humanist approaches predominate within the Consortium of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition, but not without some methodological pluralism. A large number of studies outside the…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Writing (Composition), Rhetoric
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Lisa Dush – College Composition and Communication, 2015
This essay explores "content," a word and concept now often associated with writing in fields including marketing, journalism, publishing, and technical communication. I present a definition of content appropriate to writing studies and explore a range of issues and practices that the content metaphor can bring to our professional,…
Descriptors: College Students, College Faculty, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
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Meghan A. Sweeney; Maureen McBride – College Composition and Communication, 2015
Using Mariolina Salvatori's "difficulty paper" assignment to explore student experiences when reading, this paper examines basic writing students' difficulties with reading in the composition classroom. The authors argue that examining difficulty can provide an entry point for understanding how students experience the (dis)connections…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Reading Writing Relationship, Student Experience, Reading Assignments