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Conceptualizing Composition: How College-writers (and Instructors) Use Figurative Thinking to Conceptualize, Acquire, and Enact Literacy

Sharier, Jason A
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7409-8384
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1586450855261568

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2020, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of English.
This study applies Conceptual Metaphor Theory to the pedagogy and activity of the college composition classroom by means of collecting and analyzing instructor and student metaphors for literacy. The research explores: What are the metaphors we read and write by? The investigation covers how college-writers write about writing and talk about writing.
Sara Newman (Committee Chair)
232 p.
Composition; Literacy; Rhetoric
composition; conceptual metaphor; archetype; college-writers; literacy

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  • Sharier, J. A. (2020). Conceptualizing Composition: How College-writers (and Instructors) Use Figurative Thinking to Conceptualize, Acquire, and Enact Literacy [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1586450855261568

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Sharier, Jason. Conceptualizing Composition: How College-writers (and Instructors) Use Figurative Thinking to Conceptualize, Acquire, and Enact Literacy. 2020. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1586450855261568.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Sharier, Jason. "Conceptualizing Composition: How College-writers (and Instructors) Use Figurative Thinking to Conceptualize, Acquire, and Enact Literacy." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1586450855261568

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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