Publication Date
5-2011
Type of Culminating Activity
Thesis
Degree Title
Master of Arts in English, Rhetoric and Composition
Department
English
Major Advisor
Heidi Estrem, Ph.D.
Abstract
Jane Mathison-Fife and Peggy O'Neill, along with Nancy Summers, have decried the lack of student voices in composition studies' literature on teacher response. Responding to these researchers' concerns, I present three exploratory case studies of student readers of commentary within their classroom contexts. Using reading theory's insight that the interpretive act is always both subjective and socially situated, these case studies demonstrate that a richer literature on written feedback is possible through a consideration for student perspectives and for the cultural, institutional, and instructional factors that influence their understandings. At the same time, these case studies also illuminate the complexity and the value of students' readings of commentary within their classroom spaces.
Recommended Citation
Branstad, Jeremy C., "Comments and the Classroom Context: Investigating Students’ Rhetorical Relationships to Instructor Response" (2011). Boise State University Theses and Dissertations. 176.
https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/td/176