Writing Hope: A New Way of Developing Writing Competency in College Students

• In Event: Roundtable Session 17
  In Roundtable Session: Issues in Writing Instruction in Secondary and College Classrooms

Abstract

As the academic landscape of writing education evolves, there is an increasing demand for instructional strategies that consider students’ developmental dispositions in the teaching and learning of writing competencies. While research over the past two decades has revealed a relationship between writing self-regulation and writing self-efficacy as predictors of writing achievement in college students, thus far research has not explored the relationship between hope and writing ability. This study establishes the significant relationship between writing hope and writing ability and explores the utility of teaching writing hope to developing writers through specific, instructional interventions. Given the power that writing hope has in predicting writing ability in college students, teaching writing hope could play a role in increasing college retention rates.

Author

• Nicole Sieben, SUNY College at Old Westbury