"Helping Me Learn New Things Every Day": The Power of Community College Students' Writing Across Genres. (January 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- "Helping Me Learn New Things Every Day": The Power of Community College Students' Writing Across Genres. (January 2021)
- Main Title:
- "Helping Me Learn New Things Every Day": The Power of Community College Students' Writing Across Genres
- Authors:
- Ahmed, Tanzina
- Abstract:
- Although community colleges are important entry points into higher education for many American students, few studies have investigated how community college students engage with different genres or develop genre knowledge. Even fewer have connected students' genre knowledge to their academic performance. The present article discusses how 104 ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse students reported on classroom genre experiences and wrote stories about college across three narrative genres (Letter, Best Experience, Worst Experience). Findings suggest that students' engagement with classroom genres in community college helped them develop rhetorical reading and writing skills. When students wrote about their college lives across narrative genres, they reflected on higher education in varied ways to achieve differing sociocultural goals with distinct audiences. Finally, students' experience with classroom and narrative genres predicted their GPA, implying that students' genre knowledge signals and influences their academic success. These findings demonstrate how diverse students attending community college can use genres as resources to further their social and academic development.
- Is Part Of:
- Written communication. Volume 38:Number 1(2021)
- Journal:
- Written communication
- Issue:
- Volume 38:Number 1(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 38, Issue 1 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 38
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0038-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 31
- Page End:
- 76
- Publication Date:
- 2021-01
- Subjects:
- academic success -- classroom genres -- community college -- genre knowledge -- diversity -- narratives -- rhetorical skills
Written communication -- Periodicals
Communication écrite -- Périodiques
302.2244 - Journal URLs:
- http://bart.prod.oclc.org:3052/journal=0741-0883;screen=info;ECOIP ↗
http://wcx.sagepub.com ↗
http://www.sagepublications.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/0741088320964766 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0741-0883
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- Legaldeposit
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