Beyond "Is This OK?": High School Writers Building Understandings of Genre

Autor/inn/en	Whitney, Anne Elrod; Ridgeman, Michael; Masquelier, Gary
Titel	Beyond "Is This OK?": High School Writers Building Understandings of Genre
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 54 (2011) 7, S.525-533 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1081-3004
DOI	10.1598/JAAL.54.7.6
Schlagwörter	High School Students; Writing Instruction; Literary Genres; Rhetoric; Nontraditional Education; Recreational Facilities; Pennsylvania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Schreibunterricht; Literarische Form; Rhetorik; Non-traditional education; Alternative Erziehung; Freizeiteinrichtung
Abstract	Understandings about genre govern nearly all of the choices writers make. They make choices about form, persuasive moves, conventions, and even ideas through a sense, whether articulated or tacit, of the social situation from which a piece of writing is arising. In a semester-long high school writing course, the authors engaged students in a series of activities designed to help them develop genre awareness. The goal was to support students in becoming more independent and flexible writers who possess genre analysis skills they can apply anywhere. Through whole-class genre studies, self-selected genre studies, and collaborative analyses of state test materials, students built deeper understandings about genre. Their sense of what is "OK" in a piece of writing shifted from successful evaluation by a teacher to successful navigation of the demands of a given rhetorical situation. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10