%0 Journal Article
%T Positive Expectations: A Reflective Tale on the Teaching of Writing
%A Lolly Ockerstrom
%J InSight : A Journal of Scholarly Teaching
%D 2007
%I Park University
%X A case study on the teaching of writing, this paper discusses what motivates students in a freshman writing course to complete increasingly difficult writing assignments. The study provides a glimpse into how one class of freshman students developed positive expectations for writing a paper about a difficult poem by helping each other map strategies for reading and writing.
%K student motivation
%K higher education
%K writing
%K english instruction
%U http://www.insightjournal.net/Volume2/Positive%20Expectations-%20A%20Reflective%20Tale%20on%20the%20Teaching%20of%20Writing.pdf