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Response to "Bartholomae"

I would have to agree with this statement. I knew coming into this class that I had to cater to an audience, especially depending on the teacher. But I do think this class has changed me in the way that I now actually focus on certain audiences. I had never thought of a paper in that way before. I either wrote to the teacher or to a friend, and now it is about writing to specific disciplines and I have found that this changes a lot of how I write.

Posted at 09:52AM Dec 02, 2008 by Sarah in General |

Response to josh

I had very similar problems when I was writing. I was going back and forth trying to edit and revise my paper instead of just writing. I couldn't get into a rythm at all because I never really finished my thoughts before I tried to change them.

Posted at 09:47AM Dec 02, 2008 by Chandler Knox in General |

Response to Lauren's Bartholomae Quote Post

I have to agree on you with this. At the beginning of the semester, I understood the meaning of this quote and I understood that we had to write in a certain discourse based on our audience.At this point, I am even more aware of this quote's meaning, because we've had assignments in which the audience was unfamiliar to us yet we still ]had to appeal to that particular discourse community.

Posted at 09:40AM Dec 02, 2008 by Tayla Cunningham in General |

response to Stephanies post

I was also very distracted while writing my paper. and that’s a really good point that the researchers didn't mention distraction at all. I find it hard to believe that even back in the day people didn't get even a little distracted while writing. They might not get as distracted as we do but I'm sure there was something that distracted them too.

Posted at 09:32AM Dec 02, 2008 by Sarah Joyce Holzer in General |

Results

The results of my study were a lot different than those of Berkenkotter, Perl and Sommers in that I had much more revision than their studies had shown. I think that’s because today, due to study like there, revision is stressed much more often. My results compared to Berkenkotter’s are as follows:

Revision 25% 3%

Planning 23% 45%

Editing 17% 24%

Evalution 20% 28%

Distraction 15% 0

As you can see my numbers are a lot different in the revision and planning portions which is due to the way the writing process is taught today.

Posted at 09:26AM Dec 02, 2008 by Jordan M. Penley in General |

Response to what Josh Posted

I agree with you here. My results were similar to yours in that I didn't spend too much time planning or revising. I would edit throughout the paper and once I was finished, I was finished.

Posted at 09:25AM Dec 02, 2008 by Stephanie Hairyes in General |

Results comparison

In my results, I coded a lot more revision and evaluation compared to Perl’s and the students’ results in Sommers”. Their participants were fixed mainly on the editing process,where in my results, there was more emphasis on content. If it were the beginning of the semester, I would’ve had the same results as the researchers, but I have learned to look at the content.

Posted at 09:25AM Dec 02, 2008 by Tayla Cunningham in General |

results

After the researchers said that the skilled writers would delete paragraphs and pages of their papers I expected that I would have less revision than they had, and I was right. I had a lot of planning before my paper and most of the changes in my paper are little things like punctuation and grammar mistakes like the researchers expected a college student would write.

Posted at 09:23AM Dec 02, 2008 by Sarah Joyce Holzer in General |

Think Aloud Results

My results were more like Berkenkotter's study. In my transcription there was more planning, figuring out what belonged in my paper, than anything else. I had more editing, changing words and rephrasing, than revision. I even had more evaluation, questioning and rereading my paper, than revision.

Posted at 09:21AM Dec 02, 2008 by Clarissa Darice Beaty in General |

My study compared to the other Researchers

When I began this study I thought that I would come up with the same conclusions as the previous researchers, but I didn't. My transcrpit showed that I spent more time planning than revising my paper. During the process of writing, instead of waiting until the end to revisie my paper, I would edit during the process. I had less evaluation, so it showed me that I needed to improve on. It seemed like I spent most of my time being distracted and not focused on the paper which didn't come as a surprise to me, but I did notice that the researchers did not mention any of their writers being distracted throughout the writing process.

Posted at 09:20AM Dec 02, 2008 by Stephanie Hairyes in General |

Results of the study

The results that I found were similar to the ones found in the other studies. From looking at my research and the results I spent a lot of time planning and evaluating, which is what other college students seem to do as well. I think that is because not many student writers have much experience with the whole revising process.

Posted at 09:19AM Dec 02, 2008 by Jacqueline Yanchocik in General |

Results

I found that the results of my study resembled those results of inexperienced writers from the other studies. When i was writing i would always be editing my work as i went along and i noticed that just like the other studies said that when you do this it prevents you from getting into a rhythm. Most of the editing that i did was using different words or rearranging sentences. Also i did not really plan anything out as i went along. I just started writing and hoped things would come together once i started.

Posted at 09:17AM Dec 02, 2008 by josh blount in General |