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The Making of an Avant-Garde Composition: Intersections of Composition Theory and Innovative Poetics, explores how current discussions in the field of Composition and Rhetoric intersect with the theories and practices of select members of the avant-garde poetry community, focusing on the issues of genre, identity, and language. It examines each of these issues by juxtaposing discussions of leading Composition and Rhetoric scholars with creative and critical work of avant-garde poets, identifying common concerns, and describing diverse approaches to creating innovative writing practices. It demonstrates the connections between Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's multilingual text, DICTEE, and recent scholarship by Min-Zhan Lu and A. Suresh Canagarajah on multilingual student writers in order to argue for more discussion of language politics and linguistic awareness in the composition classroom. It also outlines the connections between Harryette Mullen's creative and critical work and scholarship by Donna LeCourt and Roz Ivanic on writer identity to explore new approaches to interpreting and responding to student texts. Finally, it reads Susan Howe's The Midnight in conversation with leading genre theorists such as Amy Devitt and compositionists such as Robert Davis and Mark Shadle who argue for assigning multigenre papers. / English

Thesis (MPhil (Modern Foreign Languages))--University of Stellenbosch, 2005. / This research is based on a study which was made in order to investigate why the students who study Education at the Eastern Cape Technikon fail to acquire competence in essay writing, in spite of going through the Computer program that is being used by the Department of Communication. The name of this program is the Writing Process Workshop, and will be referred to as the WPW throughout the study. This program has been in use at the Technikon as a form of supplementary program for those students who were perceived to have shortfalls1 in their essay writing communication skills. This perception came about from the Department of Communication which decided that those students who scored less than 40% overall in (in language, not in content) their assignments, class works, and tests should go through the program and work independently, in the hope that their performance will improve. The study spans over two years, with the first year being the period where the researcher collected data in the form of written errors that the students made in their essays. The second year of the research is the period when the main research took place. During the second year of the research, the researcher observed the students as they went through the WPW for three months. Upon completing the program, the students were asked to respond to a questionnaire. In addition to the questionnaire, the researcher examined the student errors that occurred in the students’ essays throughout 2003 (while they were on the program, together with the ones from last year (2003). The reason for this was to determine if the errors that were present in 2002 are still present even after the students had gone through the WPW. The researcher then found that there was still considerable occurrence of the same errors in the students’ essays, a fact which led the researcher to deduce that very little improvement in the writing skills of the students has occurred between 2002 and 2003. To explain the above point further, the research findings indicated that the essay-writing competence of the subjects did not improve in spite of the WPW intervention.The researcher then went on to evaluate the program, using a set of guidelines2, and found it consistent with the requirements of the evaluation; and therefore ruled it out as the cause of the failure of students to improve their competence in writing. Based on the findings of the study, the researcher found that the students do not put conscious effort to apply what they have learnt in the program, and that some have not even completed the required tasks from the program. She also found that there is lack of integration of the software into the curriculum. Specific recommendations in Chapter 9 are given on how to facilitate this integration and to motivate the students to apply what they have learnt from the WPW to the mainstream essay writing exercises.

The following report details the process of writing the feature screenplay "Cheer Up, Charlie," from inspiration and conception through outline, first draft, and rewrite. I will examine these steps in order to better understand the creative decisions made between the birth of the idea and the current screenplay draft, and reconcile the differences. / text

Syftet med denna uppsats är dels att undersöka de innebörder lärare ger undervisningen med faktatexter och att skriva faktatexter med egna ord på lågstadiet och dels att inom samma område undersöka om det finns några skillnader mellan den traditionella skolan och montessoripedagogiken. För att uppfylla syftet genomfördes kvalitativa gruppintervjuer med lärare från två pedagogiska inriktningar, montessoripedagogiken och den traditionella skolan.  Min undersökning visar att när det handlar om att skriva faktatexter och att utmana elever i de yngre åldrarna att skriva faktatexter med egna ord så skiljer sig inte montessoriundervisningen och den traditionella skolan specifikt. De resultat som framkom var att man inom båda pedagogiska inriktningarna utgår från elevgruppen när ett faktatextarbete startas upp samt anser att vikten av begreppsförståelsen är stor. När det kommer till att låta eleverna skriva faktatexter med egna ord visade undersökningen att alla lärare använder samma metod, nämligen att ta bort befintlig text och låta eleverna skriva det de minns. / The aim of this thesis is divided into two part. Firstly, the aim is to investigate what meanings teachers associate with the teaching of informative texts and their thoughts on pupils writing texts with their own words at primary school. Secondly, the aim is to investigate whether there are any differences between traditional education and Montessori education with respect to the latter aim. In order to fulfill this aim, qualitative group interviews were conducted with teachers from the two pedagogical orientations.  My survey shows that when it comes to writing informative texts and challenging students of the younger ages to write informative texts with their own words there are no major differences between the traditional approach and Montessori approach. The result also shows that in both educational settings the teachers start by learning what the students already know about the subject and proceed from there. They think it is important to teach the children new vocabulary as well. When it comes to letting students write informative texts using their own words, the survey shows that teachers from the both pedagogical orientations use the same method, namely to put aside the original text and let the students write what they remember.

Depuis ses origines le travail social s'organise sur des fondements contradictoires et indissociables qui servent des intérêts aussi divers qu'antagonistes. Dans le cadre particulier de l'assistance éducative en milieu ouvert (AEMO) nous nous intéressons au processus d'écriture des éducateurs lorsqu'ils doivent fournir au juge des enfants, leur rapport de fin d'intervention. Qu'écrivent-ils ? Sur quelles références s'appuient-ils ? Comment prennent-ils en compte les références qu'ils invoquent lorsque celles-ci s'avèrent soumises à leurs interprétations ? Quelle place prend et quel rôle joue, leur subjectivité ? Après une étude théorique des références invoquées (la Loi, la famille, l'enfant et la « subjectivité ») et un travail autour des phénomènes sources du processus d'écriture (la perception, l'observation et l'interprétation), notre méthodologie de recherche nous permet d'observer les tensions entre conviction subjective et références professionnelles au cours du processus d'écriture et de les hiérarchiser. Ainsi nous parvenons à construire une typologie d'attitudes des travailleurs sociaux, au moment de la rédaction de leur rapport. Cette typologie ouvre des perspectives de formations initiales et/ou continues mais elle est aussi un argument pour repenser l'institution. En effet, l'engagement subjectif du travailleur social dans son écrit professionnel est à prendre en compte, à mettre au travail au sein d'une institution qui le valorise, le soutienne et le forme. / Since its beginnings, social work is organized and based on contradictory and inseparable foundations which cater various and antagonistic interests. In the specific context of educational assistance (AEMO), we are interested in the writing process, especially when educators have to provide their mediation end report to the juvenile judge. What do they write? What are the references they take into account? How do they manage the subjective references sprang from their own analysis? What is the role of their subjectivity and to what extent is it concerned ? Once an academic study on the references cited (the Law, family, child and “subjectivity”) and a work on the source phenomena of the writing process (perception, observation and interpretation) had been done, our research methodology allows us to observe and to classify the tensions between subjective belief and professional references while the report is written. Thus, we can define a typology of approaches regarding social workers when they‘re writing their report. This typology can contribute to the development of initial and / or ongoing education but it is also an argument to rethink the role of the institution. Indeed, the subjective commitment of the social worker in his writing is essential and must not be forgotten. It is necessary for the social worker to be part of an institution which is able to give personal satisfaction, to support and to train.