Document Type
Thesis - University Access Only
Award Date
2008
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department / School
English
Abstract
This thesis analyzes South Dakota State University Writing Center discourse by situating that discourse within the general context of writing center scholarship and the local context of the university. In its official discourse, the SDSU Writing Center, like many others, resists ties to remediation by inviting all students in the university to use its services at any stage in the writing process. Although this official discourse establishes a welcoming tone, by failing to accurately represent the services the Center provides, it leaves tutors, instructors, and students to develop their own notions of the Writing Center based on practitioner lore and personal experience, which results in a variety of often conflicting notions of the Center. The Writing Center can address this issue and take a more active role in shaping those notions by more clearly outlining the Center's goals, purpose, and practices in its official discourse and by reconsidering the significance of its metaphors and naming practices in the local context and in relation to the Center's goals and purpose.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
South Dakota State University Writing Center
Writing centers -- South Dakota -- Brookings
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching
Discourse analysis
Format
application/pdf
Number of Pages
117
Publisher
South Dakota State University
Recommended Citation
Jensen, Amber L., "The Rhetoric of Remediation: Metaphor and Context in SDSU Writing Center Discourse" (2008). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1454.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd2/1454
