| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 269 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-258) and index. |
| Contents |
I., Finding a purpose for writing in a violent and troubled world: -- Writing to survive -- Research methodology for Prairie High School -- Danielle: "I'm safe now" -- Chase: "When I am happy, I have no problems thinking" -- Diana: "Hell of a life, isn't It?" -- II., Finding a purpose for writing after disaster strikes: -- Research methodology for New Orleans Public High Schools -- Lydia: "In then, I new my best friend was dead" -- Tyrone: "Doing me is what I do best" -- Writing across trauma, tragedy, and adolescence. |
| Summary |
In this ethnographic research, the author uncovers the hidden abuses and violence that adolescents deal with each school day and how they use writing as a way to cope. In two different research sites, the author follows adolescents through their academic and personal lives to discover how they use writing to uncover the impact, public and private, violence has had upon their ability to learn. The author details writing classroom practices and assignments, and reveals how adolescents adapt, reconstruct, and appropriate the lessons of the classroom for their purposes and needs. For the adolescents in the book, writing is a way to address the stresses that plagued them each day, especially when they have no other way to communicate their lived experiences. -- Back Cover. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Composition (Language arts) -- Study and teaching -- United States.
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English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching -- United States.
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Youth -- Crimes against -- United States.
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Violence in adolescence -- United States.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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Composition (Language arts) -- Study and teaching. (OCoLC)fst00871751
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English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching.
(OCoLC)fst00911025
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Violence in adolescence. (OCoLC)fst01167272
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Youth -- Crimes against.
(OCoLC)fst01183381
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Geweld.
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Jongeren.
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Schrijfvaardigheid.
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Antropologische aspecten.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Alvarez, Deborah M., 1952- Writing to survive. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, ©2011 9781607097839 (DLC) 2010043446 (OCoLC)664667145 |
| ISBN |
9781607097853 (electronic bk.) |
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1607097850 (electronic bk.) |
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