English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching
Subject
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Amending writing composition instruction to fulfill the needs of the contemporary student, 2009
Item — Call number MU Thesis Phe
Identifier: b2195476
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees.Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts...
Dates:
2009
The rhetoric of slam poetry and its potential in the college writing classroom, 2015
Item — Call number MU Thesis Sca
Identifier: b7667382
Introduction [excerpt]
To ... begin this thesis, I will situate slam poetry in relation to composition and rhetoric scholarship, by investigating and ultimately questioning the tendency to reject the use of literary or fictional texts in first year writing courses. I will address why compositionists tend to prefer using overtly politically or socially conscious nonfiction articles in order to teach academic writing and suggest that slam poetry might provide a highly effective alternative or additonal focus for...
Dates:
2015