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Identity Chats: Co-Authorized Narratives and the Performance of Writerly Selves in Mass-Multiliterate Times
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Kastner, Stacy
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Year and Degree
2013, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, English (Rhetoric and Writing) PhD.
Abstract
Inspired by my classroom experience and Deborah Brandt's findings that generations of Americans were resistant to calling themselves "writer," this multimodal dissertation focuses on the critical narratives, reading and writing artifacts, reflections, and theories of two primary co-researching-participants (CRPs) concerning the complicated and elusive identity o f "writer" (Barthes; Foucault) and the not always complimentary relationship between definitions of writing in school, in popular culture and opinion, and in everyday practice (Brodkey; Prior). I conducted two narrative case studies between December 2011 and May 2013 with two adolescents. In my study, I integrated methods from rhetoric, composition, and writing studies with a narrative inquiry methodology, building co-authorization into the research relationship and utilizing digital composing tools in order to disrupt the limitations and exclusivity of a traditionally single-authored and print-based space and in order to situate the stories of student writers at the center of my study. I also made use of a variety of dialogue-driven instruments: (1) oral histories and loosely-based interviews (Brandt; Selfe and Hawisher); (2) a writer's questionnaire that asked CRPs to describe "writing," the identity "writer," and themselves as writers; (3) Joy Reid's Perceptual Learning Styles Preference Questionnaire; (4) archives of CRPs' print and digital reading and writing artifacts; (5) artifact-based interviews (Halbritter and Lindquist); and (6) text-based interviews (Roozen). Each case study offers literacy researchers and scholars within rhetoric, composition, and writing studies a view of how a particular adolescent has come to call, see, and think of him or herself as or as not a writer. Working outwards from Roz Ivanič's various modelings of writer identity, in my conclusion, I offer my own framework and language for discussing and researching the self-identities of student writers.
Committee
Lee Nickoson (Committee Chair)
Kristine Blair (Committee Member)
Sue Carter Wood (Committee Member)
Savilla Banister (Committee Member)
Kevin Roozen (Committee Member)
Pages
244 p.
Subject Headings
Composition
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Curricula
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Elementary Education
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Families and Family Life
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Higher Education
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Literacy
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Teacher Education
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Teaching
Keywords
Identity
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Narrative
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Narrative Research
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Performance
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Writer Identity
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Self-Identity
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Kastner, S. (2013).
Identity Chats: Co-Authorized Narratives and the Performance of Writerly Selves in Mass-Multiliterate Times
[Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1370452658
APA Style (7th edition)
Kastner, Stacy.
Identity Chats: Co-Authorized Narratives and the Performance of Writerly Selves in Mass-Multiliterate Times .
2013. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1370452658.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Kastner, Stacy. "Identity Chats: Co-Authorized Narratives and the Performance of Writerly Selves in Mass-Multiliterate Times ." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1370452658
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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