MySpace, write space: An analysis of student achievement in texts for digital audiences
by Sauceda, Stephanie Marie, M.A., THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - PAN AMERICAN, 2009, 66 pages; 1473767

Abstract:

This thesis study analyzes students' connection to audience in writing samples, gauging the performance of texts written for an actual audience, the classroom teacher and an implied audience, the web. Using Steven Toulmin's concepts of intimate and stranger interactions, this study suggests that students may make an intimate connection with the mass web audience, thereby allowing an increase in writing performance. On the other end, students identify assignments for classroom teachers as work for the stranger audience, thus creating a writing performance gap. The following is a discussion of possible factors and elements creating this particular paradox in audience identification.

 
AdviserMark Joe Noe
SchoolTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - PAN AMERICAN
SourceMAI/ 48-03, p. , Feb 2010
Source TypeThesis
SubjectsWeb studies; Rhetoric
Publication Number1473767
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