Dialogue Journal Communication: Classroom, Linguistic, Social, and Cognitive Views

by Roger W. Shuy, Jana Staton, Joy Kreeft Peyton

The thesis of this volume is that writing done by students who control their own topics, who have genuine purposes for writing, and have a real, known audience, is quite different and valuable in its own right. It forms a rich source of information about how young students think, manage their social interactions, and use language with competence to get things done. By selecting dialogue journal writing as a corpus for analysis, it is possible to observe...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893914312
• ISBN13: 9780893914318
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"