The Social Life of an Essay: Standardizing Forces in Writing  

Oleh:

Sheehy, Margaret

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Written Communication ( sebagian Full Text) vol. 20 no. 3 (Jul. 2003), page 333-385.
Topik: standardization and writing; literacy event; writing as production trajectory; articulation/rearticulation
Fulltext: 333.pdf (246.57KB)

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Standardization discourse is dominantly linked to tests; yet standardization occurs in practices of everyday social life, too. This research seeks to understand standardization processes involved in the writing done by a class of seventh grade students, half of whom did not do well in school or on tests. Acting as participant observer in a classroom where a civics project resulted in the writing of an essay, the author collected audiotaped classroom and group discussions, student writing, field notes, and texts (a history booklet, a neighborhoodplanning book, two videos, census data) students drew from to write a speechwh ichth eir language arts teacher taught as an essay. One essay/speech was delivered to the school board. The author examined the exchange of ideas, across the 8-week project, to consider how standardization as a process of production, consumption, and distribution played in students’ writing. The author found that standardizing forces involved direct teaching, genre memory, and several strategies employed to bring cohesion and unity to diverse ideas.

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