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Liminal Spaces of Writing in Adolescent and Adult Education sheds new light on persistent issues plaguing student writing. Through a compilation of approaches centered around the convergence of structure and agency in practicing writing, the book offers invaluable insights into cultivating agentic student writing for literacy researchers.
List of contents
Preface
Mellinee Lesley, René Saldaña, Jr., Julie Smit, Jin Kyeong Jung
Introduction: The Role of Liminality in Developing Useful Writing
René Saldaña, Jr., Mellinee Lesley, Julie Smit, Jin Kyeong Jung
Chapter One: More than the Second 'R': Revisiting Writing Instruction for Young Adults
Kristine E. Pytash and Mellinee Lesley
Chapter Two: Why We Write: The Scribal Identities of Adolescents Working against Standardization
R. Joseph Rodriguez
Chapter Three: The Shifting Identities of Literacy Graduates: From Learners of Writing Instruction to Novice Teachers of Adolescent Writers
Thea Yurkewecz-Stellato, Shelby Erhard, and Richard Rappold
Chapter Four: In Search of the Aesthetic: An Arts-based Approach to Writing Up Our Research
Elizabeth Stewart and René Saldaña, Jr.
Chapter Five: Literacy Legacies
Stephanie Millet
Chapter Six: Creating a Liminal Writing Class for Multilingual Adolescent Writers
Jin Kyeong Jung
Chapter Seven: Video Games in the Middle School Reading Classroom: A Cultural Canon or a Social Bomb?
Elizabeth Davis Jones
Chapter Eight: Writing Interviews
Kelly DeLong
Chapter Nine: Writing Catharsis: Inviting Students to Think and Then Write Outside of the Box
Rachel R. Graham
Chapter Ten: "I Really Wish More Girls Would Tell their Story": Adolescent Girls' Composing for Advocacy in the Liminal Space of Digital Media
Mellinee Lesley
Chapter Eleven: Voices from an "Underperforming" English Class
Whitney Beach
Chapter Twelve: "Places so far that I Could Only Dream": An Interview with Cameron James
Cameron James, Mellinee Lesley and René Saldaña, Jr.
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About the author
Edited by Mellinee Lesley; Rene Saldana; Julie Smit and Jin Kyeong Jung - Contributions by Whitney Beach; Kelly DeLong; Rachel Graham; Cameron James; Elizabeth Davis Jones; Jin Kyeong Jung; Shelby Erhard; Mellinee Lesley; Stephanie Millett; Kristine E. Py
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Liminal Spaces of Writing in Adolescent and Adult Education sheds new light on persistent issues plaguing student writing. Through a compilation of approaches centered around the convergence of structure and agency in practicing writing, the book offers invaluable insights into cultivating agentic student writing for literacy researchers.
