Writing Development Across Genres

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Abstract

The current study investigates the development of students’ written expressions across three genres during writing instruction. Specifically, we describe growth in students’ writing after Strategic and Interactive Writing Instruction (SIWI), an instructional approach aimed to improve writing skills in English while simultaneously supporting expressive language growth. To explore the impact of the five-week intervention, we looked within and across students’ writing samples in order to identify changes in overall text length and genre-specific schematic structure.

Authors

• Hannah M. Dostal, University of Connecticut

• Kimberly Wolbers, University of Tennessee