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Don't Call Me "Professor": Student Perceptions of Graduate Instructor Ethos

DelMar, Sarah Nicole
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1343163225

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2012, Master of Arts (M.A.), University of Dayton, English.
Graduate Teaching Assistants hold a unique role, a dual identity as both an instructor and a student. Most frequently, Graduate Teaching Assistants in English develop their professional roles as instructors through teacher training and their responsibilities as instructors of record for composition courses. Given that teaching loads for graduate students in English require that these graduate students' professional identities are constructed and performed for a significant number of undergraduate students, it is worth knowing whether and how graduate students' ethos as composition instructors is interpreted by students in their composition courses. The author investigates the relationship between Graduate Teaching Assistant ethos and students' perceptions of the role of composition through a survey and interviews, and analyzes the effect that individual Graduate Teaching Assistants' identities as composition instructors have on undergraduate students.
Patrick Thomas, PhD (Committee Chair)
Bryan Bardine, PhD (Committee Member)
Stephen Wilhoit, PhD (Committee Member)
Composition; Educational Theory; Higher Education; Rhetoric
Graduate Teaching Assistant Ethos; Student Perceptions; Instructor Ethos; Graduate Teaching Assistant Training; Teacher Ethos; Teaching Composition Courses

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  • DelMar, S. N. (2012). Don't Call Me "Professor": Student Perceptions of Graduate Instructor Ethos [Master's thesis, University of Dayton]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1343163225

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • DelMar, Sarah. Don't Call Me "Professor": Student Perceptions of Graduate Instructor Ethos. 2012. University of Dayton, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1343163225.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • DelMar, Sarah. "Don't Call Me "Professor": Student Perceptions of Graduate Instructor Ethos." Master's thesis, University of Dayton, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1343163225

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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