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Struggling Adolescent Writers Describe Their Experiences, Teri A. Spargur
Struggling Adolescent Writers Describe Their Experiences, Teri A. Spargur
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Abstract
Writing continues to be difficult for adolescents throughout the United States. There is little known about writing from the adolescent's perspective. This case study describes six 8th graders' thoughts and motivations on writing. The purpose of the current study was to examine the perceptions and experiences of struggling adolescent writers by taped participant interviews of six students, three male and three female, which scored below proficient on their state writing assessment. The conceptual theoretical framework for the current study is Bandura's social cognitive theory. The central research question of this study focused on the experiences of adolescents who struggle …