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Writing texts with Radical Change characteristics
Author(s) -
Pantaleo Sylvia
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.649
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1741-4369
pISSN - 1741-4350
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9345.2007.00446.x
Subject(s) - intertextuality , linguistics , taxonomy (biology) , reading (process) , psychology , pedagogy , sociology , literature , mathematics education , art , ecology , philosophy , biology
Research has revealed how students draw upon other texts when writing their own texts. This article explores how the writing of Alyssa, a 10‐year‐old Grade 5 student, was influenced by her engagement with literature with Radical Change characteristics, as well as by her knowledge of and experience with other texts. Dresang's Radical Change taxonomy is used as a framework for analysing the storybook created by Alyssa. The article concludes with discussions of the intertextual nature of the literature used in the study, and the social nature of intertextuality in the research classroom.