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Writing Apprehension and Anti-Writing: A Naturalistic Study of Composing Strategies Used by College Freshman (Distinguished Dissertations)
Writing Apprehension and AntiWriting A Naturalistic Study of Composing Strategies Used by College Freshman - Distinguished Dissertations Author:Linda Bannister This is a study of the influence of writing apprehension on individual composing strategies, particularly in the planning component of the process. Two groups of freshmen composition students (high-apprehensives and low-apprehensives) served as subjects. The study reveals that apprehension associated with the forging of ideas elongates planning,... more » while apprehension associated with the fear of evaluation results in postponement and compression of planning. The period of avoiding writing to nurture ideas is here called "anti-writing". Previous research suggests that alleviating writing apprehension is a necessity, but this study aims to demonstrate that apprehension associated with planning - anti-writing - is very valuable.« less