{"title":"I Just Couldn’t Get into It: Promoting Reflexive Reading Practices in the Writing Classroom Using Intertextuality","authors":"Noel Holton Brathwaite","doi":"10.1080/10790195.2019.1599746","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the pedagogical effectiveness of assignments developed for a first-year composition course to encourage reflexive reading habits that can aid students in the writing process. Students in this course were asked to articulate the connections they found between multimodal texts of their own choosing and texts assigned by their instructors. These assignments were designed to discourage problematic deferent and/or self-referent student reading approaches where students are either too deferential to the authors of texts or too myopic and dismissive of authors’ ideas. At the end of the course, a number of students reported that learning how to juxtapose multimodal texts and trace ideas from one genre to another made it easier for them to identify meaningful research topics.","PeriodicalId":37761,"journal":{"name":"Journal of College Reading and Learning","volume":"49 1","pages":"223 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10790195.2019.1599746","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of College Reading and Learning","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10790195.2019.1599746","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This study explores the pedagogical effectiveness of assignments developed for a first-year composition course to encourage reflexive reading habits that can aid students in the writing process. Students in this course were asked to articulate the connections they found between multimodal texts of their own choosing and texts assigned by their instructors. These assignments were designed to discourage problematic deferent and/or self-referent student reading approaches where students are either too deferential to the authors of texts or too myopic and dismissive of authors’ ideas. At the end of the course, a number of students reported that learning how to juxtapose multimodal texts and trace ideas from one genre to another made it easier for them to identify meaningful research topics.
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The Journal of College Reading and Learning (JCRL) invites authors to submit their scholarly research for publication. JCRL is an international forum for the publication of high-quality articles on theory, research, and policy related to areas of developmental education, postsecondary literacy instruction, and learning assistance at the postsecondary level. JCRL is published triannually in the spring, summer, and fall for the College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA). In addition to publishing investigations of the reading, writing, thinking, and studying of college learners, JCRL seeks manuscripts with a college focus on the following topics: effective teaching for struggling learners, learning through new technologies and texts, learning support for culturally and linguistically diverse student populations, and program evaluations of developmental and learning assistance instructional models.