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Genre and thinking in academic writing tasks
Genre-based approaches to teaching writing have made important strides in heightening
students’ awareness of audience and purpose but have paid less attention to
the ways in which expectations for written performance in school context are
embedded in expectations for certain kinds of discipline-based thinking. In this
paper we present a study that explored how a group of high school students
studying history and literature within an interdisciplinary framework experience
Show moreGenre-based approaches to teaching writing have made important strides in heightening
students’ awareness of audience and purpose but have paid less attention to
the ways in which expectations for written performance in school context are
embedded in expectations for certain kinds of discipline-based thinking. In this
paper we present a study that explored how a group of high school students
studying history and literature within an interdisciplinary framework experience
the thinking demands associated with a particular kind of writing characteristic of
both subjects: analytic exposition.We found that the task of articulating interpretive
thematic statements is a significant challenge for these students, in some cases
because the nature of interpretative understanding remains elusive to them and in
others because they struggle with finding the language to express this understanding
in a concise form. A separate but related finding has to do with opportunities
for interpretive insight that arose from writing in genres other than conventional
analytic exposition, for example, narrative, descriptive, and imaginative writing.
We conclude our discussion by recommending further investigation of ways in
which alternatives to analytic exposition may be used as bridges to mastery of this
important academic genre.
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- Beck, S.W.; Jeffery, J.V.
- Date
- 2009
- Journal
- Journal of Literacy Research
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 228 - 272
- Advanced Publication
- Yes