Personal Growth in Social Context: A High School Senior's Search for Meaning in and Through Writing

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dc.contributor.authorPETER SMAGORINSKY
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-14T19:53:14Z
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-30T15:32:10Z
dc.date.available2016-01-14T19:53:14Z
dc.date.available2016-03-30T15:32:10Z
dc.date.issued1997-01-01
dc.description.abstractThe different emphases that theorists and teachers place on the product and process of writing in their accounts of how writers construct meaning have been influenced by different traditions of Western thought that have historically been at odds: Whereas the designative tradition focuses on the ways in which artifacts of speech mediate people's thinking, the expressive tradition focuses on the transformation of inner speech to public speech, thus emphasizing the ways in which the activities of speaking and writing promote changes in consciousness. In this article, through the analysis of the writing of a high school senior, it is argued that these two positions are not mutually exclusive, but rather are complementary aspects of a semiotic view on writing. The primary data set is a “situated protocol”—that is, a think-aloud protocol, including both concurrent and retrospective accounts of writing process, conducted over a 4-month period. Through the protocol analysis and analysis of related data, I examine the ways in which this student's writing experiences reveal the interrelated roles of both designative and expressive functions of writing. The analysis also reveals that the writer found the situated protocol itself to be an enduring means of development and reflection and a tool for meditation.en_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewnoteshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guidelinesen_US
dc.identifier.citationSMAGORINSKY, P. (1997). Personal Growth in Social Context: A High School Senior's Search for Meaning in and Through Writing. Written Communication, 14(1), 63-105. doi: 10.1177/0741088397014001002en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0741088397014001002en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11244/25136
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherWritten Communication
dc.rights.requestablefalseen_US
dc.titlePersonal Growth in Social Context: A High School Senior's Search for Meaning in and Through Writingen_US
dc.typeResearch Articleen_US

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