Basic Writers' Problems Are Problems Basic to Writing [microform] / Cherryl Armstrong.
An insight to be drawn from the writing problems of Harvard University (Massachusetts) students enrolled in a "basic writing" course is that the kinds of problems the students had were different in degree, but not in kind, from problems of less accomplished student writers elsewhere and fr...
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| Summary: | An insight to be drawn from the writing problems of Harvard University (Massachusetts) students enrolled in a "basic writing" course is that the kinds of problems the students had were different in degree, but not in kind, from problems of less accomplished student writers elsewhere and from those all student writers have from time to time. These problems are similar to problems experienced adult writers confront in unfamiliar or difficult writing situations. Recognizing that even experienced writers face these difficulties, the basic writing course at Harvard (a second semester "expository writing" course) focused on meaning, fluency, revision, and building confidence. The stigma that was attached to the "basic writing" course was largely removed in the second year of the program when the course was renamed "Introduction to Expository Writing." The new title reflected the idea that the problems of "basic writers" are in fact much the same as problems basic to writing and that writing is always problematic. (RS) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (39th, St. Louis, MO, March 17-19, 1988). ERIC Document Number: ED298512. |
| Physical Description: | 13 pages. |
| Reproduction Note: | Microfiche. |
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