The development of discursive strategies in peer revision writing groups.
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Title
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The development of discursive strategies in peer revision writing groups.
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Identifier
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AAI9417520
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identifier
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9417520
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Creator
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Zuss, Mark Laurence.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Dalton Miller-Jones
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Date
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1994
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Developmental
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Abstract
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This study investigated the facilitation and social mediation of the text revision process by interactive peer critique groups. The development and emergence of various discursive strategies, and their specific, situated articulation, were the central concerns of this study. This study analyzed the selective and differential use of forms of discursive strategies termed reenvoicements. Situated contexts of revision, as established in this study, reflected salient linguistic and cultural resources available for use by authors within a specific sociohistorical signifying practice. A hypothesis of this investigation was that specific organizations of social contexts, instantiated within dialogic and interactive revision contexts, facilitate the development of authorial strategies. A guiding premise of this study was that social writing contexts significantly affect the selection of specific forms of language use. Contextualized revisions allowed for reflection on the process of composing, audience and adaptability of text; they permitted the elaboration of meaning and a concern for the expressive function of language. As such, the resources available to a speaker or writer served as repertoires from which an author, as agent, could select and reconsider genre and audience aspects of their compositions.;The development of authorial strategies by individuals within interactive revision contexts was considered to be an effect of the mediation of authorial subjectivity. These mediations emerged within dialogic exchanges that allowed for positioned expressions of 'voice'.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
