Decamp and Go is a twelve-minute work for six instruments: flute, B flat clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabass, piano, and percussion. The piece is organized using an expanded and altered simple binary form. In terms of pitch structure, the piece primar . . .

Where the teaching of First Year Writing is concerned, developing coursework that students find valuable is a daunting task. Considering that many students in these courses are neither interested in pursuing writing after the completion of their compu . . .

Rule books for tabletop, pen and paper roleplaying games, such as Dungeons and Dragons, are full of advice for creating stories that are coherent, three-dimensional, and engaging. In a composition classroom, students are striving to create arguments t . . .

This project advocates for the use of frequently-administered, low-stakes tests to enhance student learning of the disciplinary content of composition. Though there is widespread disdain for the role of standardized tests in education today, not all f . . .

Students with disabilities (SDs) are a rapidly growing population in our current school systems. Even though disability is seen as “acceptable” in post-secondary education, institutions still maintain alienating instructional practices and mentalities . . .

Literacy is a growing concern for educators from secondary education through college. In the past, literacy has been understood largely as the ability to read and write; in other words, it is the ability to decode words fluently and put those words in . . .

Assessment practices and literacy standards can work against racial and economic identities of students within the CSU system, negatively impacting both access and diversity within higher education. As many have pointed out, racial identity and econom . . .

This research study examines the effect of explicit direct strategy instruction in writing integrated with a Writers Workshop instructional format on young writers of mature, average, and low ability. Participants included students in a general educat . . .

ABSTRACT THE POSSIBILITIES OF PUBLICS: NEW MEDIA AND GENRE IN THE FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION COURSE By © Lauren Michele Alpert 2011 Master of Arts in English California State University, Chico Spring 2011 This thesis analyzes work produced by students in . . .

The question of the practicality of a blended pedagogy in composition is relevant to not only FYC instructors, but just as importantly to FYC students. A pedagogy based on strict ideological and philosophical positions results in either/or thinking wh . . .