Honors Projects

Abstract

Among the many rules taught to students as they engage in the writing process is the instruction to remain objective and avoid writing in first-person. Though there are certainly instances in which it is inappropriate for students to use the word 'I" in their writing, students often misunderstand this instruction and their writing suffers as a result. Students often produce writing which lacks voice in their struggle to remain objective. This project seeks to prove the importance of voice in all forms of writing and provide a method for teaching students how to include voice in their own work. The project includes ten days of lesson plans focused on narrative writing. The plans ask students to complete a personal narrative through which they will be given the opportunity to develop their own voice. The project also seeks to provide a way to teach students to apply what they will learn about voice through narrative writing to other writing endeavors. In this way, narrative writing can serve as a stepping stone by which steps may improve in all areas of writing.

Major

Integrated Language Arts Education

First Advisor

Dr. James Berta

First Advisor Department

Education

Second Advisor

Dr. Donna Nelson-Beene

Second Advisor Department

English

Publication Date

Spring 2014

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