The role of stance in a subgenre of non fiction : junior high readers' response writing and Anne Frank : The Diary of a Young Girl /
The primary purpose of this study was to identify the stances
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | The primary purpose of this study was to identify the stances adopted by 18 eighth-grade remedial reading students as they read Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. All students wrote Method Responses and free responses to the nonfiction book in narrative form. The secondary purpose was to determine if cues and activities, materials which were used to try to increase the students' background knowledge of the world during the Holocaust, World War II, and Anne Frank's life could influence the stances adopted by the readers. The third purpose was to examine the readers' adopted stances and the scores on the final examination covering the diary for an indication of level of understanding relating to a particular stance. The written responses, Method Response and free response, following the reading of the diary, were categorically analyzed. An efferent to aesthetic continuum was developed for Method Response and free response to a nonfiction text in diary form. These continua were used to identify the stances adopted by the readers as they read the diary. The efferent to aesthetic continuum for free response to nonfiction text in diary form was used to identify the stances adopted by the readers as they responded to the cues and activities. Qualitative and quantitative analyses revealed that the efferent stance was the dominant stance adopted by the readers as they read the diary and responded to the cues and activities. However, evidence from the final examination indicated that, given more time to write a response, a student might reveal that an aesthetic stance was his or her adopted stance during the reading of the diary. |
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| Item Description: | Vita. "Major Subject: Educational Curriculum and Instruction". |
| Physical Description: | x, 187 leaves ; 28 cm. Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilms Inc. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |