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Direct linkVanessa Sullivan – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
This article presents the findings of a study in which college freshman reflected on the process of writing a literacy narrative and considered the impact of such writing on their narrative identities. The author synthesizes existing scholarship on literacy narratives, discusses the methodology of interpretive phenomenological analysis utilized,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Story Telling, Literacy, Self Concept
Ovid, Dax; Abrams, L'vannah; Carlson, Tess; Dieter, Mark; Flores, Paulos; Frischer, David; Goolish, Jolie; Bernt, Michelle La-Fevre; Lancaster, Amber; Lipski, Christopher; Luna, Joshua Vargas; Luong, Lucy M. C.; Mullin, Marlene; Newman, Mia Janelle; Quintero, Carolina; Reis, Julie; Robinson, Freja; Ross, Allison James; Simon, Hilary; Souza, Gianne; Taylor, Jess; Ward, Katherine E.; White, Yvonne Lever; Witkop, Emily; Yang, Christine; Zenilman, Aliza; Zhang, Eddie; Schinske, Jeffrey N.; Tanner, Kimberly D. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Based on theoretical frameworks of scientist stereotypes, possible selves, and science identity, written assignments were developed to teach science content through biographies and research of counter-stereotypical scientists--Scientist Spotlights (www.scientistspotlights.org). Previous studies on Scientist Spotlight assignments showed significant…
Descriptors: Scientists, Secondary School Students, Self Concept, Writing Assignments
Cong Wang; Sida Zhu; Yanmei Dai – SAGE Open, 2025
Anxiety is widely recognized as a significant affective factor that influences second language (L2) writing proficiency. However, its specific contributions to writing motivation and engagement, and how it interrelates with these constructs, are not clearly defined. To address this research void, this study explored the role of anxiety in the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Student Motivation, College Students, Chinese
Meridith Reed; Amy D. Williams – Composition Forum, 2023
Research on writing pedagogy education (WPE) emphasizes the importance of engaging graduate student instructors (GSIs) in mindful reflection about their own practices and about composition theory. Little research, however, has explored what we learn from a systematic, empirical investigation of GSIs' reflective writing. In this article, we…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Theories, Reflection
Sciurba, Katie; Uphus, Kate; Escobar, Sonia – Reading Teacher, 2022
In this teaching tip, we--a literacy professor and two K-12 teachers--encourage a rethinking of the baseline writing assessment by sharing our experiences with "The Paper Selfie," an activity that juxtaposes the arts and young people's personal writing. By centering students' identities, their hopes, beliefs, dreams, and realities,…
Descriptors: Writing Tests, Personal Narratives, Fine Arts, Identification (Psychology)
Social Positioning and Learning Opportunities in One Student's Textual Transition to College Writing
Brad Jacobson – Written Communication, 2024
Developing academic writers must continually position themselves discursively as they negotiate institutional, programmatic, and disciplinary contexts. The inextricable relationship of writing and identities raises questions of access to social identities in schools, a particularly salient issue when considering the complexities and challenges of…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing (Composition), High School Students, College Students
Download full textQianqian Zhang-Wu; Alison Stephens; Neal Lerner – Composition Studies, 2023
Our research explores the meaningful writing experiences of 325 undergraduate students who self-identify as multilingual. Through qualitative coding of open-ended survey data, we found that respondents considered their writing meaningful when it allowed them to make personal and relevant connections and learn new skills and strategies. Our…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Multilingualism, Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments
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
Uttal, Lynet; Gloria, Alberta M. – International Journal on E-Learning, 2021
Many instructors question the move to online teaching and learning and it is often met with resistance as they fear that on-line learning will be more structurally didactic. In particular, one of the major concerns is that the value of face-to-face discussions will be lost. This is a core concern for courses that require the development of…
Descriptors: Reflection, Self Concept, Undergraduate Students, Online Courses
Tedrow, Mary K. – Inquiry, 2020
The initial composition course in the community college has the potential to be a transformative space for the identity formation of adult learners towards the linguistic signifier of "scholar." Freshman students of variable ages enter a new culture which demands the negotiation of an alternative academic language, an adaptation to the…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Community Colleges, Self Concept
Sloane, Heather; Petra, Megan – Journal of Social Work Education, 2021
To foster development of cultural humility in social work students, educators must listen carefully to students to uncover and disrupt implicit biases about other groups. This study was a narrative analysis of undergraduate social work student papers about identity and intersectionality where most students wrote about religion/spirituality and how…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Counselor Training, Empathy, Advocacy
Phillip Wilder – English Journal, 2019
This article describes a writing assignment called Conversations with Myself (CWM) in which students "talk back" to subtractive dominant narratives through a two-part process of text analysis and autobiographical, dialogic writing. The author presents a case study of Stephen (all names are pseudonyms) to illustrate how literacy supported…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, English Instruction, Self Concept, Autobiographies
Torres, JT; Ferry, Nicole – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2019
The following study situates feedback in two teacher education courses to explore the following research question: How do students rely on discursive features of feedback to reflect on and write their identities as future teachers? A total of 41 participants were recruited for the study. These participants are undergraduate students enrolled in…
Descriptors: Tutors, Feedback (Response), Preservice Teachers, Professional Identity
Papaioannou, Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation study reports on an IRB-approved qualitative study of ten students who took class-assigned writing and moved it beyond the curriculum, I examine the curricular and extracurricular contexts that drove students to voluntarily develop projects that involve writing. The findings I share in this dissertation are based on interviews…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Assignments, Self Concept, Goal Orientation
Danielle Kubasko Sullivan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Native American students have lower rates of college completion and retention and experience higher rates of trauma exposure. Using focus groups and follow-up interviews, this critical phenomenology sought Native American student perspectives on intention and desired faculty response following self-disclosure of personal challenges in college…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, College Students, Trauma Informed Approach, Student Attitudes
