“How do I do it if I don’t like writing?”: Adolescents’ stances toward writing across disciplines

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Jeffery, J.V.; Wilcox, K.C. (2014)

Article / Letter to editor

This research embedded in the National Study of Writing Instruction

examines higher- and lower-achieving adolescents’ stances toward content-areawriting

through a qualitative discourse analysis of interviews with 40 students in California,

Kentucky, New York, and Texas secondary schools. The study asked: (1) How do

students’ stances toward writing compare in general and across disciplines? (2) How do

stances compare among middle and high school students and among students with

different achievement histories? Results suggest that adolescents generally hold positive

attitudes toward writing that allows for the expression of subjective stances, which they

report ismore commonly assigned inEnglish language arts classrooms. Implications for

the adoption of new US standards for disciplinary writing are discussed.

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