Carter Thesis Defense: "Accessibility Gaps & Overlaps in College-Level Writing Assignment Composition"
In this project, Tameron Carter explores how writing assignments are composed for accessibility. Writing instruction pedagogy has recently found an increasing need for interlocking accessibility research and standards with course and material composition. As a result of this identified need, scholars have performed a great deal of research on accessibility standards and barriers measurable effects on diverse student bodies.This project builds on this research and utilizes the coding of a limited sample of college-level writing assignments with some degree of reflective components, seeking to understand linguistic, cognitive, cultural, and educational theories of accessibility in practice. The project analyzes a series of ten assignments gathered from five different professors who spent some part of their academic journey (as students and/or instructors) in the English and Communication Department at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
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