I Search, You Search, We All Search for I-Search: Research Alternative Works for Advanced Writers, Too.

Autor/in	Reigstad, Tom
Titel	I Search, You Search, We All Search for I-Search: Research Alternative Works for Advanced Writers, Too.
Quelle	In: Composition Chronicle: Newsletter for Writing Teachers, 10 (1997) 7, S.4-7 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Leitfaden; Unterricht; Lehrer; Classroom Techniques; Higher Education; Instructional Improvement; Learning Strategies; Research Papers (Students); Teaching Methods; Writing Instruction; Writing Processes; Writing Strategies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lesson concept; Instruction; Unterrichtsentwurf; Unterrichtsprozess; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Klassenführung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Unterrichtsqualität; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Schreibunterricht; Schreibtechnik
Abstract	Offering advanced writers the opportunity to present their research findings in the form of an I-Search paper yields a more enriching experience for them and a better "read" for their audience. In the past 2 years, students in upper-level undergraduate courses--like Advanced Composition and Teaching and Evaluating Writing and graduate courses such as The Teaching of Writing and a seminar on Mark Twain--have been encouraged to explore a personal area of interest in-depth and produce a major semester-long writing project known as an I-Search paper. Unlike a typical research paper which focuses mostly on reporting just the results of research from an analytical, objective narrative point-of-view, the I-Search paper requires students to carefully consider and document their research and writing processes as well as their ultimate findings and to tell the story of the entire search--including the results--in a personal, first-person voice. While research paper traditionalists might be persuaded that "the story of the search" plays a role in reporting, they would expect to see evidence of research. The I-Search paper does not disappoint. More often than not, the closing section of I-Search papers tell eloquently and revealingly of the writer's findings. (Contains three figures and four references.) (CR)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC