The Relationship Between the Originality of Essays and Variables in the Problem-Discovery Process: A Study of Creative and Noncreative Middle School Students
- 1 February 1985
- journal article
- Published by National Council of Teachers of English in Research in the Teaching of English
- Vol. 19 (1) , 84-95
- https://doi.org/10.58680/rte198515655
Abstract
The study was conducted to determine whether there is a relationship between problem-discovery and the assessed originality of the written product, and to determine whether problem-finding behavior is observable in student writers. This relationship was examined at two stages: the problem-formulation and problem-solution stages. Two groups of middle school writers, a high creative group and a low creative group, participated in the study. Results indicated a relationship between problem-finding and the originality of the product. The creative group scores were higher, though not always significantly, than the noncreative group scores in a direction one would predict based on correlational research done with artists. The way a student approaches a writing problem is directly related to the originality of the product.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: