The impact of writing for different kinds of audience on a group of year 11 students' writing proficiency at an inner city secondary college in Victoria
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1993
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Melbourne Graduate School of Education
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Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Melbourne, 1995
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This study was carried out with the purpose of finding out the influence of audience on the students writing proficiency It was carried out with the help of forty students who were studying at Year 1 1 at an inner city secondary college.
The students belonged to three different classes or three intact groups. Each student produced three pieces of writing one of which was for no audience the second one of which was for an imaginary audience and the third one of which was for a real audience. Since the sequence of tasks could be a compounding variable in this study it was decided to give the three groups of students the tasks in three different orders.
The students writings were assessed by three raters using a multitrait method of scoring. The components of writing and scales used were derived from those proposed by Hamp Lyons (1986). For any large discrepancy a fourth rater was invited to rate the specific samples of writing again.
The data was analysed by ANOVA and F comparison. The results of the study reveal that audience has a significant impact on the students writing proficiency. However when the students wrote for an imaginary audience their writing was rated as less proficient than when they wrote for no audience. The most interesting result was the one relating to students writing for a real audience In this case students proficiency was judged by the raters to be greater than for the other two types of audience.
This research has provided some interesting insights for teachers and composition and direct writing assessment researchers.
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Authors and readers, Composition (Language arts), Evaluation, High school students, Melbourne, Victoria