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Courtney Lund O’Neil – Composition Forum, 2024
There is valuable scholarship on the importance of teaching narratives in the FYC classroom, but none does so through the frame of vulnerability. This paper explores, through an IRB approved case study, how composition teachers can best guide students to write powerful and well-crafted personal narratives to ignite students' own voices, histories,…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Personal Narratives, Student Attitudes, Writing Attitudes
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Mandi Goodsett – Journal of Information Literacy, 2024
Combating the spread of misinformation is a struggle that has inspired considerable research in the fields of psychology, education, political science, and information science, among others. Such research has found that "prebunking" or "inoculation" techniques--strategies that reduce the acceptance of misinformation before one…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Misinformation, Librarians
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Havva Zorluel Özer – Research in the Teaching of English, 2024
Drawing on surveys and interviews with college writing instructors and students at a public university in the United States, this mixed methods study revealed that in many cases instructors adopted translingual orientations, whereas students were committed to norms in their views of writing across differences. Students' orientations to language as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Language Usage
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Jiang, Jialei; Vetter, Matthew A. – Composition Forum, 2020
Wikipedia's gender gaps are both well-established and well-challenged, and while Wikipedia-based assignments have become more common in composition, teacher-scholars have not fully explored the opportunities for feminist pedagogy offered by the encyclopedia. This article reports on a teacher research study designed to examine the efficacy of the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Feminism, Rhetoric, Electronic Publishing
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Erguvan, Inan Deniz – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
Contract cheating, or students outsourcing their assignments to be completed by others, has emerged as a significant threat to academic integrity in higher education institutions around the world. During the COVID-19, when traditional face-to-face instruction became unsustainable, the number of contract cheating students increased dramatically.…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Knowledge Level, Cheating, Foreign Countries
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Baird, Catherine; Soares, Tiffany – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2020
The study investigates the perceptions of first-year writing faculty of how their students develop information literacy (IL). The authors conducted 16 semi-structured interviews and analyzed them using a qualitative inductive coding method. The study contributes a close and nuanced understanding of faculty perceptions of IL learning to a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Information Literacy, Freshman Composition
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Nielsen, Danielle – CEA Forum, 2019
Looking to the possibility that interdisciplinary, thematic courses can build student confidence in the writing process, this essay argues that a first-year writing course that combines close attention to rhetorical skills, readings about an interdisciplinary field, and a carefully scaffolded assignment sequence enhances the potential transfer of…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Thematic Approach, Metacognition, College Freshmen
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Ly, Quang C. – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2021
This study uses the concept of gamification to engage first-year students in the act of summary writing. The researcher argues that writing instructors should consider ways to gamify concepts in their curriculum to bring novelty and active involvement to course materials. The researcher uses Robson et al.'s (2015) mechanics, dynamics, and emotions…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Benchmarking, Competence, Personal Autonomy
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Holton Brathwaite, Noel – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2019
This study explores the pedagogical effectiveness of assignments developed for a first-year composition course to encourage reflexive reading habits that can aid students in the writing process. Students in this course were asked to articulate the connections they found between multimodal texts of their own choosing and texts assigned by their…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Freshman Composition, Writing (Composition)
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Rysavy, Monica D. T.; Michalak, Russell; Hunt, Kevin – American Journal of Distance Education, 2018
The Digital Archival Advertisements Survey Process (DAASP) model is a collaborative active learning exercise designed to aid students in evaluating primary source documents of print-based advertisements. By deploying DAASP, the researchers were able to assess the students' ability to evaluate their biases of the advertisements in a first-year…
Descriptors: Primary Sources, Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Archives
Boczkowski, Derek John – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation attempts to address three areas of significance to the current academic zeitgeist: 1) the disciplinary re-characterization of English composition in consideration of its ability to aid the transfer of writing practices, 2) the increasing theorization of writing in academic settings as sets of social practices, 3) the repeated…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), English, Writing Skills, Higher Education
Fender, Paula Jeanette – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This research study explores the composing practices of several first-year composition students in two English 250 classes offered at Iowa State University. The study examines and analyzes intercultural awareness students have regarding race, diversity, and life, their own and others. Using the inductive analysis research design, the research…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, College English, Freshman Composition, Multicultural Education
Kushkaki, Mariam – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Despite its rich history in the English classroom, popular culture still does not have a strong foothold in first-year composition (FYC). Some stakeholders view popular culture as a "low-brow" topic of study (Bradbury, 2011), while others believe popular culture distracts students from learning about composition (Adler-Kassner, 2012).…
Descriptors: Course Content, Popular Culture, English Instruction, Literary Genres
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Bunn, Michael – College Composition and Communication, 2013
Teaching reading in terms of its connections to writing can motivate students to read and increase the likelihood that they find success in both activities. It can lead students to value reading as an integral aspect of learning to write. It can help students develop their understanding of writerly strategies and techniques. Drawing on qualitative…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Freshman Composition, Writing Instruction, Reading Instruction
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Ritter, Kelly – College Composition and Communication, 2012
I draw upon Eileen Schell's notions of "maternal pedagogy" and an "ethic of care" to analyze archival material from the National Education Association and Educational Testing Service pilot "lay reader" programs of the 1950s and 1960s. I argue that there are striking similarities between the material and social circumstances of these postwar lay…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Educational Testing, Labor, Writing Teachers
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