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Marshall, Laura Hardin; Lynch, Paul – Composition Studies, 2020
The Writing Program (WP) at Saint Louis University has striven to create a course that draws on a richer disciplinary understanding of writing and rhetoric. The standard course structure, from which instructors are asked to fashion their own syllabi, asks students to pursue a scaffolded semester-long project. As they pursue the scaffolded…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Freshman Composition, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), English Instruction
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Wolf, Joanna; Roderick, Ryan; Rooney, Andrea Francioni – Composition Studies, 2019
Despite much attention given to visual rhetoric in Composition, there is evidence that most first-year writing instructors overlook document design, both in their instruction and in the documents they produce for their students. These instructors may be underestimating the role that visually informative prose (that uses document design features…
Descriptors: Layout (Publications), Design Preferences, Freshman Composition, Writing Teachers
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Young, Debra Dimond; Morgan, Rachel – Composition Studies, 2020
In this study, we examine the use of community-engaged writing pedagogy and the authentic, contextualized writing projects it creates to determine if students better understand the concept of audience and incorporate that foundational knowledge into their writing process. Thematic analysis of student reflections and interviews found students view…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Service Learning, Critical Thinking, Community Organizations
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McAlear, Rob; Pedretti, Mark – Composition Studies, 2016
Process-based composition pedagogy has ignored the question of "doneness": the criteria used to decide when a piece of writing is complete. This article uses survey results from first- and second-year composition courses to challenge common beliefs about how students determine when writing assignments are sufficiently completed. We find…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Writing (Composition), Freshman Composition, Writing Instruction
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Andersen, Rebekka – Composition Studies, 2016
In first-year writing (FYW), instructors want students to understand how reading texts in particular ways affects how and what they learn and, in turn, how and what they might communicate to their own readers. Because students tend to come to FYW predisposed to notice more visual aspects (e.g., headings, bulleted lists) than verbal aspects (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Rhetoric, Critical Thinking, Cues
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Dirk, Kerry – Composition Studies, 2010
Participation, a commonly graded component of composition classrooms, is rarely the focus of current research studies. While some discussions have addressed grading practices or ways to increase participation, student and instructor voices have yet to be included in studies of classroom participation in composition courses. Yet these voices are…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Grading, Student Participation, Writing Instruction
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Ruecker, Todd – Composition Studies, 2011
English 1311: Expository English Composition is the first semester course in a two-semester first-year composition (FYC) sequence. Both ENG 1311 and its second-semester counterpart, ENG 1312, are required for all students unless they have transfer credit covering this requirement or place out of one or both of the courses via the College-Level…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, Higher Education
Chandler, Sally – Composition Studies, 2007
The study of emotion as discourse not only eliminates objections about the individual psychology of students, it also connects researchers to methods that go beyond reflection and self-reporting. In this article, the author pursues these ideas within the context of a college composition course where students experienced a particularly high level…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Freshman Composition, Psychological Studies, Writing Processes