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

Rights

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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