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Emerging Methods for Studying Adolescent Writing Across Spaces and Over Time

Sat, April 9, 4:05 to 5:35pm, Marriott Marquis, Floor: Level Four, Liberty Salon M

Session Type: Symposium

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Traditional methods for studying adolescent writing and learning to write have tended to focus on either the static texts students produce, the cognitive processes involved in composing, or the social context and interactions within which students write. The five studies discussed in this symposium feature methods that cross the boundaries of text, cognition, and social context and situate writers as agents who compose within digital and classroom contexts in various and complex ways. Although the qualitative methods employed across the studies vary, they work toward shifting the focus from writing as a product (adolescent writing) to writing as activity (adolescents writing) that can be traced over spaces and time to better understand what adolescents do in and with writing.

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