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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
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PUBLISHED WORK
MAKING MEANING THROUGH MEDIA: SCAFFOLDING ACADEMIC AND CRITICAL MEDIA LITERACY WITH TEXTS ABOUT SCHOOLING
Kelly, Courtney and Carleigh Brower
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, vol. 60 no. 6, 2017, pp. 655-666
This study investigated how an interdisciplinary first-year seminar focused on representations of schooling in popular culture supported the acquisition of an academic version of critical media literacy. The authors explore how tapping into students' funds of knowledge, constructing carefully scaffolded assignments, and offering targeted, personalized feedback allowed the instructors to support students as they acquired academic and critical media literacy through recursive acts of meaning making. Findings suggest that implementing these practices may help students perform close counterreadings of media texts and compose evidence-based arguments that examine the clear and hidden lessons that these texts teach.
USING FOCUS GROUPS TO ASSESS WRITING CENTER EFFECTIVENESS
Cushman, Tara, Lindsey Marx, Carleigh Brower, Katie Holahan, and Elizabeth Boquet
The Writing Lab Newsletter 29.7, 2005, pp. 1–5.
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Meaningful Mentorship: Fostering a Community of Peer-Tutor Researchers.” Individual Presentation at the Northeast Writing Centers Association Conference, Western Connecticut State University, March 2019.
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"Principles v. Prejudices: Designing Yourself.” Presentation with Dr. Colin Morris, FYP Director, at the National Conference on the First-Year Experience, Last Vegas, NV, February 2019.
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"Mentorship Across Borders: Fostering a Community of Peer-Tutor Researchers.” Individual Presentation at the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, South Padre Island, TX, November 2018.
“Mentorship of Active Citizens: Fostering a Community of Peer-Tutor Researchers.” Individual Presentation at the International Writing Centers Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 2018.
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“Structured Blogging as Multimodal Academic Pre-Writing: MAPing Academic Literacy with First Year College Students.” Presentation with Dr. Courtney Kelly, Literacy Research Association Conference, Nashville, TN, December 2016.
“Using Blogs to Promote Academic Literacy.” Presentation with Dr. Courtney Kelly, National Conferenceon the First-Year Experience, Dallas, TX, February 2015.
“High School in Hollywood: Promoting Critical Literacy through Counter-Readings ofTeacher Films.” Presentation withDr.Courtney Kelly, PENN Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA, February 2015