1Can Teachers ' Images of Good Writing Conflict With Goals of Process Writing?

  • Sarah J. Mccarthey
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Publication date
January 2016

Abstract

of topic, (c) multiple drafts with revision emphasized, and (d) writing within a predictable structure in which teachers and students devote time to talking about writing. Despite the careful delineation of these features, questions remain about how effectively these approaches have been implemented (Applebee, 1986). The difficulties of implementing process approaches to change classroom norms within bureaucratic institutions have been well documented (Florio-Ruane, 1991; Lensmire, 1991; Michaels, 1987). One of the factors that appears to undermine implementation of process approaches is the teacher's expectations or schema for students ' writing (Michaels, 1987). Ulichney (1989) found that teachers' dominant interpretive fra...

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