A Changing Understanding of Writing

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Title: A Changing Understanding of Writing
Author: Madeleine Hannah
Faculty Sponsor: Cornelia Paraskevas
Abstract: As student writers gain more instruction and experience, their beliefs about writing and their own writing practices change. Based on prior research about writing development and the author's own experiences, a developmental scale was created that can be used to chart the typical course of a writer’s growth and understanding of writing. It is not strictly linear, and stages might be skipped, condensed, or combined. Like the writing process itself, the scale is recursive; ideally, the writer would get into a cycle of repeating the final two stages, building on former knowledge and always seeking new understandings that can be applied to both learning and teaching writing.
Description: My profound thanks go to Cornelia Paraskevas, who has inspired and supported me through so much more than this paper. Many thanks as well to my colleagues at the WOU Writing Center, for their essential part in my own writing process.
Subject: Creative Writing; Rhetoric and Composition; writing; developmental scale; student writers; writing pedagogy; composition; writing process; writing instruction
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Type: Text
volume: 8
Date Published: 12/17/2019
Note: Cornelia Paraskevas
Alternative Title: Changing Understanding of Writing
Identifier: pure/vol8/iss1/8