The Audience Project: Writing for readers rather than writing for teachers Research Question: Students are used to producing writing that will be evaluated by a teacher or other authority figure. My research design focuses on altering student perspective on writing by focusing on audience and response. Bluntly: Can focusing on audience help students free their […]
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Identity-based activities, brave and safe spaces, audience awareness discovery draft
Research question: Does the introduction of identity-based activities and conversations in the FYW classroom lead to a classroom that can be more aptly navigated as a brave and safe space? Does the introduction of identity-based activities and conversations in the FYW classroom lead to more awareness of the rhetorical situation of a written piece? As […]
Putting the audience in the spotlight
Topic speculation Do students tailor what they write for different audiences? My research will seek to answer how audience plays a role in student compositions in English 101. I think that students generally write for the same audience in all of their classes – the authority figure. Despite telling them that they should carefully consider […]
Thinking Thoughts ‘Bout Writing
My students, excluding maybe one or two, told me that they were average, or mediocre, or middle of the road writers. Most of them told me that good writing, or the metric with which to evaluate writing depends on sentence structure, or coherence, or generally grammar. When pushed to examine our writing class alongside this […]