Taking it Personally: Using Literature To Stimulate and Sustain Research.

Autor/in	Barkley, Mary
Titel	Taking it Personally: Using Literature To Stimulate and Sustain Research.
Quelle	(1994), (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Evaluation Methods; Freshman Composition; Higher Education; Interests; Reader Response; Research Papers (Students); Student Motivation; Student Needs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsinteresse; Leserbrief; Schulische Motivation
Abstract	Literature can bring meaning to student research. When students read they develop connections to characters. They care; they empathize; they recognize the issues that face characters' lives, and they develop beliefs about those issues. Students' new feelings and beliefs motivate them to conduct research related to those issues and sustain them through research. In the same way that students have an emotional response to their personal experience, students also have an emotional response to literature. At the University of Tulsa this translates into meaningful research in the first-year writing course. Maxine Hong Kingston's "Woman Warrior" not only engages students imaginatively, but also introduces a range of issues from Chinese cultural practices such as foot binding to women's issues in this country that are suitable research topics. Further, once students are motivated to begin their research, the text provides an effective context for teaching analysis and argument, two skills necessary for writing a research paper. As the narrator of "Woman Warrior" is engaged in an analysis of her life, the book models a kind of thinking relevant to student researchers. Kingston's theses are elusive; to understand her text therefore students must analyze its components to understand its implicit unity. Faced with the components that they have gathered throughout their research--notecards, notes, and duplicated pages--students analyze the implicit connections among pieces of information. Finally, Kingston's text demonstrates arguments between competing views, i.e., Chinese and American identity. (TB)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC