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O'Sullivan, Íde; Hart, D. Alexis; Holmes, Ashley J.; Knutson, Anna V.; Sinha, Yogesh; Yancey, Kathleen Blake – Composition Forum, 2022
This article draws on examples of student interviews incorporating multiple modalities to explore the writing lives of students as part of a larger project focusing on participants' experiences of writing within and beyond the university. We explain this innovative, iterative research method combining multiple texts and maps, characterizing it as…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Writing (Composition), Writing Processes, Interviews
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Hayes, Hogan; Whithaus, Carl – Composition Forum, 2022
Discourse-based interviews allow researchers to gather data about a writer's understanding of what informs a task. This method was essential for a research team seeking to understand the impact of programmatic learning objectives on student writing development. Three decisions in the approach to this research project sought to center the student…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Writing (Composition), Writing Processes, Writing Skills
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VanKooten, Crystal – Composition Forum, 2016
Recent research in writing studies has highlighted meta-awareness as valuable for student learning in courses such as first-year writing (FYW); however, meta-awareness needs to be further theorized and its components identified. In this article, I draw on a case study of six students in two FYW courses that is informed by Gregory Schraw's model of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Freshman Composition, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
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Lindenman, Heather – Composition Forum, 2015
In this article, I challenge the scholarly consensus that suggests students only rarely forge meaningful connections between the genres they compose in different domains of writing (Reiff and Bawashi; Yancey, Robertson, and Taczak). I argue that the genre and domain categories composition researchers have imposed through data collection and…
Descriptors: College Students, Focus Groups, Interviews, Writing (Composition)