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 […]
Peter Elbow
Finale Slush Pile
Since I’ve done every other blog post, I’m going to write some of the leftover stuff I haven’t posted yet, or never got a chance to post. The Peter Elbow drinking game – drink anytime he is referenced – we would all be dead by now The great shift in education over the past thirty […]
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 […]