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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"writer identity"”.
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Exploring habitus and writer identities : an ethnographic study of writer identity construction in the FET phase at two schools in the Western Cape
… consequences of these for the construction of writers' identities. Further, it foregrounds the ways that policy positions teachers, learners and learning despite diversity in school cultures, identities and histories, and more importantly the ways that unique local pedagogical contexts …
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A Corpus-Driven Study of Discourse Communities in Applied Linguistics in Turkiye and the United States
This study examines the construction of writer identity through stance markers in applied linguistics theses from the United States and Turkiye, adopting a corpus-driven approach. Drawing on 200 theses (100 from each discourse community), the research reveals how the linguistic features reflect the …
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Student writing in social work education
… particular interest in the relationship between identity and writing. In doing so I draw upon current research based upon sociological perspectives on writer identity but also critically examine the potential contribution of concepts from what I will generally be referring to as a 'psychosocial' …
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Establishing an academic identity: Second language writers and the institution.
… experience of trying to establish an academic writer identity. Importance is placed upon the wider institutional context, and the way that decisions on an institutional level serve to undermine students' attempts to establish a credible academic writer identify. Towards this end, this …
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Academic Literacies Study of Personal Statements for Higher Education: Students’ and academics’ interpretations and assumptions across institutional contexts
… 2004) that considers issues of meaning-making, writer identity that students bring to the act of writing, and writing and evaluation practices within a particular institutional and epistemological context. Specifically, I investigate students’ PSs for PhD applications at one UK-based and one …
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The Intersection of Writing Process Pedagogy and Prolepsis: A Phenomenological Case Study of Secondary Writing Instruction
… and beliefs about writing and their own writer identity shifted and changed throughout the camp as they experienced the learning activities crafted for them. </p> <p>Analysis resulted in the identification of three essential themes: (1) curating a supportive learning environment through …
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Taking ownership : the relationship between self-representation and writing development in a science extended curriculum programme at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology
… disciplines. It argues that writing is an act of identity and thus it is imperative to engage with the nuances of identity in text. I focus on the notion of the self and how this is represented in student writing. Students often view writing as difficult because they do not identify with the 'me' …
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Technological Performativity: Mapping the Rhetoric of Student Valuation and Identity in Composition Textbooks
… of writing textbooks on race, class, and gender identity and on the types of thinking and writing the books promote. Though the scholarship on writing textbooks is extensive and productive to help critical pedagogues accomplish their goals, a review of the literature reveals additional areas left …