TY - JOUR
T1 - The emotional work of revision
AU - Ballenger, Bruce
AU - Myers, Kelly
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by the National Council of Teachers of English. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/6
Y1 - 2019/6
N2 - Forty years ago, Nancy Sommers identified dissonance and the ways in which writers respond to incongruities between “intention and execution” as a core competency of revision. While still a challenge for student writers, dissonance now takes different forms, particularly for advanced student writers who embrace theories of revision but struggle to implement the practices. Unspoken, these experiences of dissonance become internalized as fear-based narratives and scripts that negatively impact student writers. Through in-process reflection, this study surfaces the ways in which students navigate the dissonance by adapting, or rescripting, their fear into a productive element of writing and revision. To better understand the interplay of strategy and struggle, we argue that revision pedagogies for advanced student writers must take the emotional work of revision into consideration.
AB - Forty years ago, Nancy Sommers identified dissonance and the ways in which writers respond to incongruities between “intention and execution” as a core competency of revision. While still a challenge for student writers, dissonance now takes different forms, particularly for advanced student writers who embrace theories of revision but struggle to implement the practices. Unspoken, these experiences of dissonance become internalized as fear-based narratives and scripts that negatively impact student writers. Through in-process reflection, this study surfaces the ways in which students navigate the dissonance by adapting, or rescripting, their fear into a productive element of writing and revision. To better understand the interplay of strategy and struggle, we argue that revision pedagogies for advanced student writers must take the emotional work of revision into consideration.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85070888275&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.58680/ccc201930180
DO - 10.58680/ccc201930180
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85070888275
SN - 0010-096X
VL - 70
SP - 590
EP - 614
JO - College Composition and Communication
JF - College Composition and Communication
IS - 4
ER -