From discursive essay to expressive writing
Subtitle: stories of a student and a teacher.
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 82
Subjects: Creative writing.; Creative writing -- Study and teaching.; Rhetoric.; Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
Description: This thesis examines my academic journey through narrative as a student and a teacher in the writing classroom at a major university in Poland and at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education of the University of Toronto in Canada. I employ an auto-ethnographic approach and arts-based inquiry to discuss and explore my own experiences of learning to write and of learning to teach others to write. I also recount how I rediscovered writing and found my own voice after taking an Expressive Writing course at OISE/UT. I show how personal narrative has taught me to trust my words and reclaim my writing and my teacher-self. My intention for this thesis is to raise awareness that through expressive writing pedagogy and through personal narrative, students develop their voice and confidence.
Notes: Adviser:  Jean S. Mason.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2004.

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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 42-06, page: 1936.

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