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Alexander, Kara; DePalma, Michael-John; Shaver, Lisa; Williams, Danielle M. – Composition Studies, 2019
In this article, we discuss the three-year process of redesigning our writing major at Baylor University. In tracing our process, we discuss the decisions we made with regard to the redesign of our major and contextualize our decision-making process in relation to existing scholarship on the writing major. Additionally, we highlight the range of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students), Writing (Composition), Curriculum Design
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Arellano, Sonia; Cortez, José Manuel; García, Romeo – Composition Studies, 2021
As the rhetorical performances of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work continue to proliferate and sell a movement towards more equitable institutions, the authors challenge this rhetoric as merely a new mode of epistemological and territorial expropriation. Instead, the authors put forth the concept of shadow work, which happens as a…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Self Concept, Consciousness Raising, Inclusion
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Stone, Brian J.; Stewart, Shawanda – Composition Studies, 2016
In the 2015-16 school year, the authors of this article developed an innovative research and assessment project on a new first year composition curriculum based on a pedagogy they call Critical Hip Hop Rhetoric Pedagogy (CHHRP), an educational approach built upon the classroom-based research of linguistic anthropologist H. Samy Alim…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Popular Culture, Black Colleges
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Cavazos, Alyssa G. – Composition Studies, 2019
First-Year Writing (fyw) courses are ideal writing spaces where students' diverse identities and language resources can flourish for specific rhetorical purposes. While research has focused on multilingual students' language and writing practices, little attention has focused on self-identified multilingual students' perceptions of language…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Multilingualism, Self Concept, Writing (Composition)
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Adkins, Tabetha; Meyer, Connie – Composition Studies, 2014
The course described here was designed especially for students enrolled in a collaborative program between Texas A&M University-Commerce and Konkuk University in South Korea. This course was created specifically for students who did not earn a qualifying score on a standardized placement exam required of all first-year students for enrollment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Cooperative Programs, Universities
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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