"I'am just No Good at Writing": Epistemological Style and Atitudes Toward Writing  

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Charney, Davida ; Newman, John H. ; Palmquist, Mike

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Written Communication ( sebagian Full Text) vol. 12 no. 3 (Jul. 1995), page 298-329.
Fulltext: Written Communication-1995-CHARNEY-298-329.pdf (3.18MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/WRC/12 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The authors assessed writing attitudes and epistemologies of 117 first-year and 329 upper-level undergraduates. Attitude scales assessed enjoyment of writing, self-ratings of writing ability, and belief in writing as learnable. Epistemological scales measured absolutism (belief in knowledge as determinably true or false), relativism (belief in the indeterminacy of all claims), and evaluativism (belief that truth can be approximated). Absolutism correlated negatively with writing grades and verbal aptitude, whereas evaluativism exhibited a weak positive correlation with both. Students with higher evaluativism tended to enjoy writing more and to assess themselves as good writers. Upper-level students were less absolutist and marginally more evaluativist than first year students. Differences in attitudes and epistemologies emerged between men and women and among upper-level students in four disciplinary groups. The authors sketch some implications for writing pedagogy.

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