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Nancy Mack – Composition Forum, 2023
The bias against personal experience manifests in writing courses as privileging the citation of scholars, fearing emotional writing, and equating argumentation with democratic ideals. To value the lives and knowledges of marginalized students, the curricular goals, assignments, and activities for writing courses needs to be reconsidered.…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Disadvantaged, Culturally Relevant Education, Personal Narratives
Tardy, Christine M.; Buck, Rachel Hall; Pawlowski, Madelyn; Slinkard, Jennifer R. – Composition Forum, 2018
Genre has emerged as a central concept in writing studies, with numerous scholars advocating for its prominent role in writing instruction. Despite this interest in genre, however, research has not explored teachers' understanding of the concept, which is critical to how they address genre in their classrooms. This study traces the evolving…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers, Reflection, Focus Groups
Campbell, Jennifer – Composition Forum, 2016
In addition to teaching research and writing skills, First-Year Composition classes are well situated to help students develop strategies for managing stress and increasing well-being. I describe an assignment sequence in which students interview others from three generations about topics related to happiness and wellbeing, analyze shared…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Well Being, Interviews, Writing (Composition)
Wilner, Arlene – Composition Forum, 2005
In this author's research, the question of whether it makes sense to think of writing primarily as a generic skill acquired increasing urgency as she gathered qualitative data for a study of the relationship between instructors' expectations in the design of writing assignments and the students' thinking as evidenced both in their essay responses…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments, Writing Skills