| dc.contributor.author | Kornkven, Erik Kermeth | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study investigates Mary Louise Pratt's "contact zone" theory and argues that the contact zone has undergone a dematerializing process from a place with clear geographical and material connections to an imagined geography. Using the material rhetoric scholarship of Nedra Reynolds and Richard Mar back, the paper shows the weakening effect a dematerialized metaphor has on classroom pedagogy and presents a writing assignment that seeks to rematerialize the contact zone for the first year writing classroom. The paper explores other uses of contact zone pedagogy to show that there is a pattern of
dematerialization prevalent in contact zone pedagogy throughout its existence. Using Henri Lefebvre's spatial triad of lived, conceived, and perceived aspects of space, an assignment is presented that attempts to rematerialize the contact zone in the classroom, effectively changing it from a place of exploration to a place of discovery. Sixty-six student papers were gathered along with reflections throughout their writing process. Students were asked to identify a community they were a part of and describe it using Lefebvre's spatial triad before identifying contact zones in their own lives. The assignment provides students with a way to approach important cultural and societal issues from a place of authority resulting in a fully embodied exploration of their own contact zones. | en_US |
| dc.publisher | North Dakota State University | en_US |
| dc.rights | NDSU policy 190.6.2 | en_US |
| dc.title | Rematerializing the Contact Zone : Discovery and Exploration in the First Year Writing Classroom | en_US |
| dc.type | Master's Paper | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-17T18:11:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-17T18:11:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10365/33249 | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Academic writing -- Study and teaching. | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf | en_US |
| ndsu.degree | Master of Arts (MA) | en_US |
| ndsu.college | Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences | en_US |
| ndsu.department | English | en_US |
| ndsu.program | English | en_US |
| ndsu.advisor | Brooks, Kevin | |
