Learning to Write about Literature: Comprehension, Creation, and Criticism.

Travers, Molly

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Publication Date: 1987

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Learning to Write about Literature: Comprehension, Creation, and Criticism.

Travers, Molly

English in Australia, n81 p64-72 Sep 1987

Presents a study of students in Australia, Canada, and England and examines grade nine students' written responses to writing over a two year period and their opinions of the books they read. Suggests that for students of that age, creative written responses to writing are the most imaginative. (JC)

Descriptors: Literature Appreciation, Novels, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Assignments, Reading Attitudes, Reading Instruction, Reading Interests, Reading Research, Reading Writing Relationship, Secondary Education, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative; Speeches/Meeting Papers

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Language: English

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