Creating Confidence – [631755]
Creating Confidence –
Inspiring Writing
Assignments with the DCK
Framework
Angus Woodward
Susan Brigman
Our Lady of the Lake College
What is discourse community?
Discourse community identifies the social groups for which the majority of
writing tasks are conducted.
Swales (1990) established six criteria to define functional discourse
communities:
A set of shared goals
“Mechanisms of intercommunication” that allow…
…The exchange of information and feedback
Some common genres which the community uses and defines
A particular lexicon, and
Specific requirements for membership
Beaufort’s DCK Framework for
Writing Expertise
Applying the DCK Framework
to Assignment Design
Discourse Community Knowledge = situated
assignment
Genre knowledge = “What you’ll write”
Subject -Matter Knowledge = “What you’ll write
about”
Rhetorical Knowledge = “Who you’ll write for
(and why)”
Process Knowledge = “How you’ll write”
What is writing self -efficacy?
Self-Efficacy: People’s beliefs about their own
capabilities; those beliefs influence “how people feel,
think, motivate themselves, and behave” (Bandura,
1994).
Writing Self -Efficacy:
Low: “a fearful writing approach devoid of strategies and
based on doubting skills and seeing writing as a slow and
painful process.”
High: “more likely to vary or alternate strategies and to use
the right strategy…for the particular task” (Lavelle, 2009).
General WSE versus Task -Specific WSE
Effects of DCK on WSE
Preliminary/Anecdotal
Students better grasp complex writing tasks
Students make fewer off -base false starts
Faculty experience less frustration with student: [anonimizat]
Under investigation
Does use of the DCK framework increase students’
general WSE?
Does use of the DCK framework increase students’ task –
specific WSE?
Does “burdening” students with explicit knowledge of
DCK interfere with WSE?
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