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Hinshaw, Wendy Wolters – Community Literacy Journal, 2018
This essay describes a prison-university writing exchange that culminated in the collection of audio and written essays "Why I Write" (http://www.why-i-write.com) and offers "writing to listen" as a strategy for communicating and listening across institutional and social boundaries. I argue that sound reveals the material…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Writing Instruction, Partnerships in Education, Universities
Yancey, Kathleen Blake – Principal Leadership, 2009
People are writing as never before--in blogs and text messages and on MySpace and Facebook and Twitter. Teenagers do a good deal of this writing, and in some composing environments--for example, the text-messaging space of a cell phone--they are ahead of adults in their invention of new writing practices and new genres. At the same time, teenagers…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Writing Evaluation
Petko, Michael C. – 1991
A practicum was developed to determine whether the motivation of a private school's ninth grade English class (18 students) could be increased by gearing the course toward a specified, authentic public audience and whether an increase in motivation would positively affect the quality of and attitude toward writing assignments and the use of…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Audience Awareness, Grade 9, High School Students