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Title:
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Peter Elbow and Pat Belanoff’s Being a writer: a community of writers revisited: a social-expressivist approach to first-year composition
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Author:
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Henning, Rebecca Leigh
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Abstract:
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This thesis serves as a pedagogical introduction to the theory of social-expressivism, or the convergence of two main composition theories: expressivism and social constructivism. The author conducted a textual analysis of Peter Elbow and Pat Belanoff’s Being a Writer: A Community of Writers Revisited using Thomas Huckin’s context-sensitive method of examination to trace social-expressivist patterns throughout the textbook. The author’s analysis of her course syllabus, writing assignment prompts, and peer workshop scripts verify the value of social-expressivism as a theory and classroom pedagogy that develops students’ “composing flexibility,” or the ability for students to compose private and public texts while recognizing the natural intersections of personal and academic discourses. |
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Description:
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Thesis (M.A., English) -- California State University, Sacramento, 2011. |
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URI:
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http://hdl.handle.net/10211.9/1387
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Date:
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2011-09-09 |
