Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ631483
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2001
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Report in Argument's Clothing: An Ecological Perspective on Writing Instruction in a Seventh-Grade Classroom.
Nystrand, Martin; Graff, Nelson
Elementary School Journal, v101 n4 p479-93 Mar 2001
Draws on classroom observations, interviews, and writing portfolios to contend that competing demands in modern classrooms can lead to environments that sabotage the teaching of argumentative and persuasive writing. Concludes that the epistemology fostered by classroom talk and other activities was inimical to the complex rhetoric the teacher was trying to develop in encouraging students to write arguments. (Author/SD)
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Classroom Environment, Creative Writing, Educational Environment, Grade 7, Middle School Students, Persuasive Discourse, Process Approach (Writing), Rhetorical Theory, Writing (Composition), Writing Attitudes, Writing Instruction, Writing Processes, Writing Skills, Writing Strategies, Writing Teachers
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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