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The Role of Talk in Small Writing Groups: Building Declarative and Procedural Knowledge for Basic Writers
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Launspach, Sonja – Journal of Basic Writing (CUNY), 2008
Through the use of a case study, this article explores the role of talk in underprepared students' acquisition of academic discourse. Conversation analysis as a linguistic framework is used to examine the interactions of students participating in a small writing group. Tracing the progress of one student's paper, I explore how students'…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Discourse Communities, Writing (Composition), Learning Processes