Search Results - "Alexander, Kara Poe"

Teaching the IMRaD Genre: Sentence Combining and Pattern Practice Revisited by Wolfe, Joanna, Britt, Cynthia, Poe Alexander, Kara

“…The authors describe two pedagogical strategies—rhetorical sentence combining and rhetorical pattern practice—that blend once-popular teaching techniques with…”
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Reconceptualizing literacy: Experimentation and play in audio literacy narratives by Alexander, Kara Poe

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The Computer Expert in Mixed-Gendered Collaborative Writing Groups by Wolfe, Joanna, Alexander, Kara Poe

“…When mixed-gendered student teams collaborate on technical writing tasks, a single male often emerges as the group computer expert. The effects of this trend…”
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Disrupting the Numbers: The Impact of a Women's Faculty Writing Program on Associate Professors by Alexander, Kara Poe, Shaver, Lisa

“…Women continue to be underrepresented at the highest academic rank of full professor. Studies show that once women earn tenure, they are inundated with…”
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The Usability of Print and Online Video Instructions by Alexander, Kara Poe

“…This study investigates the usability of print and online video instructions for computer tasks. Usability tests, comprehension tests, and questionnaires were…”
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Forwarding Literacy in I Am Malala: Resisting Commodification through Cooperation, Context, and Kinship by Alexander, Kara Poe

“…On Oct 9, 2012, Malala Yousafzai, a fifteen-year-old girl known internationally for campaigning for women's rights and access to education, boarded the school…”
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Harnessing writers' potential through distributed collaboration: A pedagogical approach for supporting student learning in multimodal composition by DePalma, Michael-John, Alexander, Kara Poe

“…In response to the widely acknowledged challenge of instructor expertise in multimodal composition (MC) teaching, our article discusses a pedagogical approach…”
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Composing Arguments of Scholarly Worth: A Case Study of the Portfolio Letter by Alexander, Kara Poe

“…This essay examines four disciplinary challenges that faculty from broad, diverse disciplines such as rhetoric and composition encounter during tenure,…”
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Rendering Private Writing Public in the DALN by Alexander, Kara Poe

“…In this article Kara Alexander discusses why, as a literacy studies instructor, she believes requiring her students to upload their literacy narratives to the…”
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A Bag Full of Snakes: Negotiating the Challenges of Multimodal Composition by DePalma, Michael-John, Alexander, Kara Poe

“…Because of the vast changes to the communication landscape over the last two decades, along with the influence of emerging technologies on students’ writing…”
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Successes, Victims, and Prodigies: ``Master'' and ``Little'' Cultural Narratives in the Literacy Narrative Genre by Alexander, Kara Poe

“…This article examines the ``master'' and ``little'' cultural narratives students perform in literacy narratives. Results show that students incorporate the…”
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From Story to Analysis: Reflection and Uptake in the Literacy Narrative Assignment by Alexander, Kara Poe

“…The literacy narrative assignment is popular with composition instructors because of the reflection it encourages in students. Previously, scholars have…”
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DMAC After Dark: Toward a Theory of Distributed Invention by Alexander, Kara Poe, Williams, Danielle M.

“…This essay outlines the concept of “distributed invention” (DI), an idea stemming from our experiences at the Digital Media and Composition Institute (DMAC)…”
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Adaptive Remediation and the Facilitation of Transfer in Multiliteracy Center Contexts by Alexander, Kara Poe, DePalma, Michael-John, Ringer, Jeffrey M.

“…This essay considers the question of transfer in relation to processes of remediation. In particular, we explore the interrelationships between transfer and…”
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Implicit response: Instructor values and social class in the literacy narrative assignment by Alexander, Kara Poe

“…My dissertation examines instructor responses to a popular personal writing assignment, the literacy narrative. Previous studies have shown this assignment to…”
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