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An Experiment Of Audience Awareness Effects On College Students’ Argumentative Writing, Shiyuan Wang
An Experiment Of Audience Awareness Effects On College Students’ Argumentative Writing, Shiyuan Wang
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This experimental study explored the effects of different levels (imagined audience vs. interactive audience) and timing of audience interaction (during planning vs. revision) on undergraduate students’ self-efficacy and quality of argumentative writing. A total of 138 students from four undergraduate educational psychology courses participated in this study. Three conditions were compared: imagined audience, interactive audience during planning and interactive audience during revision. Results showed that students interacting with audience during revision produced significantly more argumentative elements (below level 1 reasons of opposing view) and had higher self-efficacy for audience awareness than the other two conditions. Students’ cognitive load and audience-related …