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Access Type
WSU Access
Date of Award
January 2021
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Department
English
First Advisor
Richard Marback
Abstract
The writers-first principle is an ideological alignment for teaching first-year writing that reclaims expressivist pedagogies and borrows from creative writing studies in order to construct a productive FYW curriculum that regards students as “writers first.” This project not only details, theorizes, and advocates for this creative writing and expressivist approach to FYW instruction, but also models teacherly reflection for writing instructors to conduct, and develop, their own dispositions and guiding principles for FYW instruction that is aligned with their teaching personas. Part auto-ethnography, part narrative, this reflective study celebrates the craft of teaching and makes an argument for revisiting oft-dismissed expressivist scholarship in composition studies.
Recommended Citation
Degenaro, Anthony, "The Writers-First Principle: An Expressivist Approach To First- Year Writing Instruction & Teacher Reflection" (2021). Wayne State University Dissertations. 3565.
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/3565