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Eli Goldblatt – Composition Forum, 2024
The article addresses the multifaceted concept of practice as it relates to writing, drawing parallels to various domains such as sports, music, and professional life. Through reflections on the dichotomy between practice and performance exemplified by Allen Iverson's famous quote, Goldblatt explores how writing is perceived and approached as a…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Processes, Writing Attitudes, Writing Research
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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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Reid, Gwendolynne; Kampe, Christopher; Vogel, Kathleen M. – Composition Forum, 2022
Writing researchers have long sought to make tacit writing knowledge explicit, rendering it available for learning and critique. We advance this endeavor by describing our use of the "tool-based interview" (TBI) as a variation of Odell, Goswami, and Herrington's influential discourse-based interview (DBI). Rather than the product-focused…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Processes, Writing Research, 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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Williams, Amy D. – Composition Forum, 2014
Composition theory and pedagogy have variously understood writing as a noun or as a verb, a product or a process. This paper proposes a shift to theorizing writing as a gerund (writing "g.") and argues that this approach opens a space for more productive composition theory. A gerund orientation focuses attention on the virtual and…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Writing Processes, Theories
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Perl, Sondra – Composition Forum, 2014
This article describes Sondra Perl's retrospective review of the composing processes of unskilled college writers and whether her assumptions and values in the designing of research projects have changed over her long teaching career. She uses her college dissertation "Five Writers Writing" as the basis to reflect on the authors and…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Research, Writing Processes, Two Year College Students