Dissertations on Composition and Blogging

I found several blogs related specifically to writing and blogging. As you can see, they are all relatively new. While there were other dissertations about blogs, these were most relevant. Since we have to do one of our annotated bibs on a dissertation chaper, I thought it may as well do double duty and help with our paper! Personally, I think the last two would be most useful since they relate to college classrooms rather than high school. I do think it is relevant to our research to mention that younger writers may have already begun blogging as a part of the writing process, so it is critical that colleges adapt and grow to integrate new methods.

We can discuss which one (or others you may have found) we would both like to do tomorrow.
These are available by logging in to the library database for dissertations (or possibly by clicking on the links. I am unsure if that will work or not).

Painting the voice: Weblogs and writing instruction in the high school classroomby Olander, Marilyn V., Ph.D., Nova Southeastern University, 2007, 249 pages; AAT 3283949
To blog or not to blog? A comparative study of the effects of blogging in the teaching of writing in the high school classroomby Roth, Nicole L., Ed.D., Duquesne University, 2007, 149 pages; AAT 3253102
Blogging and ESL writing: A case study of how students responded to the use of Weblogs as a pedagogical tool for the writing process approach in a community college ESL writing classby Jones, Sharla Jeannette, Ed.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2007, 322 pages; AAT 3254430
Interactivism: Transforming the composition classroom through bloggingby Blankenship, Laura, Ph.D., University of Arkansas, 2007, 169 pages; AAT 3276880