Clive Thompson on the New Literacy - 0 views
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The fact that students today almost always write for an audience (something virtually no one in my generation did) gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writing. In interviews, they defined good prose as something that had an effect on the world. For them, writing is about persuading and organizing and debating, even if it's over something as quotidian as what movie to go see. The Stanford students were almost always less enthusiastic about their in-class writing because it had no audience but the professor: It didn't serve any purpose other than to get them a grade.
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Paul Allison on 30 Aug 09I'm excited to find this study, the Stanford Study of Writing. And I'm wondering how to involve my seniors in an inquiry into what sort of writing they will need to be able to do.
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This part of the article seems particularly relevant to our work in Youth Voices: "In interviews, they defined good prose as something that had an effect on the world. For them, writing is about persuading and organizing and debating, even if it's over something as quotidian as what movie to go see."