Toward a Taxonomy of Beginning Writers' Evaluative Statements on Written Compositions
- 1 July 1984
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Written Communication
- Vol. 1 (3) , 365-384
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0741088384001003004
Abstract
A writer's evaluation of text plays critical, but little examined, roles in the writer's production of text and development as writer. Twenty students, grades 2-6, ranked unevaluated sets of compositions that they or anonymous peers had written; they then were prompted to discuss the factors upon which their rankings were based. Analysis of their evaluations suggests that bases for evaluations can be described in four categories: feelings aroused by text; responses to surface features; responses to text as understood; responses to craftsmanship.Keywords
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