Writing in My Language : Students' Perceptions of Informal Writing in the Composition Classroom
- ECU Author/Contributor (non-ECU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Allison Query (Creator)
- Institution
- East Carolina University (ECU )
- Web Site: http://www.ecu.edu/lib/
- Advisor
- William P. Banks
Abstract: This classroom study examines students' perceptions of informal writing in a first-year composition classroom. Informal writing as defined in this study includes any in-class exercises that provide students the freedom to communicate on paper using their own familiar discourses. These assignments allow students to be creative as they can write draw map doodle etc during these exercises. An analysis of student work including informal writings essays and reflective cover letters and anonymous surveys suggests that students were able to make meaning in these sometimes dismissed informal exercises.
Additional Information
- Publication
- Thesis
- Date: 2011
- Keywords
- Pedagogy, Higher education, English Composition, informal writing, invention, prewriting
- Subjects
- Rhetoric--Study and teaching
- English language--Composition and exercises
| Title | Location & Link | Type of Relationship |
| Writing in My Language : Students' Perceptions of Informal Writing in the Composition Classroom | http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3619 | The described resource references, cites, or otherwise points to the related resource. |