Making and Remaking Meaning: Developing Literary Responses through Purposeful, Informal Writing.

VanDeWeghe, Richard

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Publication Date: 1987

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Making and Remaking Meaning: Developing Literary Responses through Purposeful, Informal Writing.

VanDeWeghe, Richard

English Quarterly, v20 n1 p38-51 Spr 1987

Examines how students make and revise meaning when writing in purposeful, informal ways about their interpretation of literary texts. Also reveals five ways in which students develop their understanding of literature through writing. Suggests a mutually enriching reading-writing process of interpretation. (AEW)

Descriptors: Higher Education, Interpretive Skills, Literary Criticism, Reader Response, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Reading Writing Relationship, Revision (Written Composition), Writing (Composition), Writing Processes

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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