August 2019

1. Aug 2019 OA PDF
   Composing Comes Alive: Dramatic Presentations in the Writing Classroom ↗
   Ann E. Wallace
   Abstract

   In creating and presenting a collaborative dramatic presentation of a literary text, composition students bring "The Yellow Wallpaper" to life through close reading, literary analysis and synthesis, recursive multi-modal writing, and group performance. This assignment fosters the development of transferrable reading, writing, and creative thinking skills within an active learning environment.

   writing pedagogy collaborative writing literary studies
   doi:10.31719/pjaw.v3i2.41
2. Aug 2019 OA PDF
   An Empirical Research Project in English and Writing Studies ↗
   Joyce Kinkead
   Abstract

   English majors generally are adept at literary criticism but tend to have less experience in conducting empirical research that draws on both qualitative and quantitative methods and engages human participants. To introduce those methods to students and to satisfy a university requirement for quantitative instruction applied to the discipline, I developed a course called Approaches to Research in English Studies. The students complete individual IRB-approved projects that result in a research report, a poster, and a lightning talk. Before undertaking the individual projects, the students engage in a whole-class research project that models the process, and this latter assignment is described here in this essay.

   empirical research quantitative research literary studies
   doi:10.31719/pjaw.v3i2.40