Pushing Toward Fearlessness: A Freewriting Project with Sophomore English

Title: Pushing Toward Fearlessness: A Freewriting Project with Sophomore English
Creator: Hilda Kleiman
Degree Name: Master of Arts in Teaching (initial licensure)
Project Type: Action Research Project
Date: 6/15/2025
Abstract: Over approximately three weeks, a class of sophomore English Language Arts students engaged in a daily freewriting practice. They began and concluded the three weeks of freewriting with a semantic pulse survey that measured the attitudes of the students toward their writing. Three themes emerged from the project: a consistent choice of words about writing, a consistent quality and quantity of writing that was produced during the freewriting, and some untapped potential between the freewriting and the students' final more formal written work.
Keywords: Peter Elbow; writing process; creative process
Committee Member: Marcus Wenzel; Melanie Landon-Hays
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Language: eng
Type: Text
Identifier: AliciaKleiman_ARP_2025