University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Effects of Three Levels of Prewriting Questions Upon The Written Responses of College Freshmen to Short Stories
Abstract
dc:descriptionThe purpose of this study was to determine the effects of three levels of specificity of prewriting questions and the effects of story selection upon the written responses of college freshmen to short stories. Subjects read one of two short stories, one best described as unconventional in terms of its theme and technique and the other more conventional in theme and style. Next, subjects responded to a questionnaire requesting that they rate questions that might be asked about a work of literature according to their appropriateness to the story read. One questionnaire provided sixteen relatively specific questions; a second, four general questions; a third, no questions at all but which simply requested that they propose three questions of their own. Finally, subjects were given thirty minutes to write an essay about the story read.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Education
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Quirk, Donald Lawrence
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8218542
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/68803