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Reading Our Writing | Writing Our Reading: Threshold Concepts for Graduate-Level Reading in Composition

Kuchta, Adam Lawrence
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1636563205974656

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2021, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, English (Rhetoric and Writing) PhD.
This project advocates for sustained, explicit, graduate-level reading instruction in the discipline of writing studies. It posits that professional academic reading is a complex activity that requires graduate students to develop contextually unique skills and habits of mind to perform effectively. It posits also that graduate students struggle to learn this form of reading and would benefit from direct instruction. Further, it positions threshold concepts for reading—oft-“invisible” disciplinary assumptions or ways of thinking that are troublesome to learn but important to internalize to fully enter an academic community—as an important pedagogical tool in graduate-level reading curricula. The project makes several moves in advocating for such reading instruction: (1) It makes the case for why graduate-level reading instruction is needed; (2) it consolidates multiple strands of reading theory that have influenced writing studies into a working definition of professional-level reading in the discipline; (3) it constructs a list of threshold concepts for disciplinary reading; (4) it outlines a framework—the reading sandwich cycle—for integrating threshold concepts with reading instruction; (5) and it makes suggestions for integrating reading instruction throughout course work and elsewhere in graduate curricula.
Lee Nickoson, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Neil Baird, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Sue Wood, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Per Broman, Ph.D. (Other)
359 p.
Adult Education; Curricula; Educational Theory; Literacy; Reading Instruction; Rhetoric
Reading; Writing; Graduate Reading; Graduate Writing; Literacy; Threshold Concepts; Academic Reading; Reading Cycle Sandwich; Graduate Education; Graduate Professionalization; Reading Theory; Graduate Pedagogy; Graduate Student; Teaching; Learning; Rhetoric and Writing; Rhetoric and Composition; Writing Studies

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  • Kuchta, A. L. (2021). Reading Our Writing | Writing Our Reading: Threshold Concepts for Graduate-Level Reading in Composition [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1636563205974656

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kuchta, Adam. Reading Our Writing | Writing Our Reading: Threshold Concepts for Graduate-Level Reading in Composition. 2021. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1636563205974656.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kuchta, Adam. "Reading Our Writing | Writing Our Reading: Threshold Concepts for Graduate-Level Reading in Composition." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1636563205974656

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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