Metrics
5 File views/ downloads
45 Record Views
Thesis
CRITICAL INVENTION
University of West Florida
Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida
2008
Abstract
First-year college composition students suffer from deficits in areas of scholarly research and critical thought. I found that many students had not previously learned either of these skills during their prior composition experiences. Further, I found that their prior composition experiences perpetuated the students’ resistance to acquiring scholarly research skills and critical thinking abilities. Unfortunately, the students' absence of these cognitive skills was the result of their ideologically-driven desire to stay in a state of cognitive dissonance. As a result of this situation, and my desire to teach argument, I designed a pedagogy that penetrates the students' ideologically-driven resistance, making the teaching of argument possible.
Details
- Title
- CRITICAL INVENTION
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Publisher
- University of West Florida
- Format
- text
- Copyright
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
- Identifiers
- 99380090849606600
- Academic Unit
- English
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida