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Emotion can influence classroom writing in several ways. Students may write from a place of avoiding personal topics if they have negative feelings associated with writing. Alternatively, cultivating positive emotions around writing can encourage students to explore personal subjects. However, there is debate around whether assignments should push for personal exploration, as this could induce stress. Ultimately, teachers should aim to help each student develop their own writing identity regardless of approach.

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Emotion can influence classroom writing in several ways. Students may write from a place of avoiding personal topics if they have negative feelings associated with writing. Alternatively, cultivating positive emotions around writing can encourage students to explore personal subjects. However, there is debate around whether assignments should push for personal exploration, as this could induce stress. Ultimately, teachers should aim to help each student develop their own writing identity regardless of approach.

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Pablo Writing within the classroom

New Member . Yesterday at 4:20 PM

Hi y'all! I've just started my teaching career and I've


had some questions! How does emotion affect
classroom writing? Should classroom writing
encourage personal and emotional exploration? Any
advice helps! #writing #teacher #psych

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Alice Brand There are a lot of components


that make up the social construction of
writing and emotion is definitely one of
them! Emotion is one of the psychological
factors that can influence a piece of writing.
Sometimes its hard for students to write
from emotion and instead unfortunately
write using their social voice to appeal to
the specific audience. 😣

Wendy Bishop
Alice Brand I totally agree!
Pablo What do you mean by social voice?
And when you mention that emotion does
affect writing, what are you defining
emotion as?

Alice Brand
Pablo When I mentioned social voice
I'm talking about the tone of writing
that students use in response to a
prompt to give an answer they think
will satisfy a prompt, but they won't
actually speak from their own
emotions. This happens so often in
academic environments as students
won't apply themselves towards an
assignment and will instead do
whatever they can to just finish it.

And emotion to me is just what an


individual student feels toward the
idea of writing. If they're super
passionate about it and have positive
feelings associated with it, they're
more likely to write about more
personal issues.
Wendy Bishop Emotion is really just
any emotion that students associate
with writing! Bringing positive
emotions into the classrooms will help
create a great writing environment!

Michelle Gibson Emotions not


related to writing can also influence
the way someone writes; if someone
has past personal issues, they may
avoid writing about that subject. This
pre-existing emotion can be defined
as negative emotions surrounding
anything that can influence one's
identity in the writing community.

Lad Tobin I have to agree with


Wendy Bishop and Alice Brand that
emotion can really just be described
as the feelings an individual has about
the process of writing. I recommend
building an environment with positive
vibes to ensure everyone is
passionate about writing !
Wendy Bishop Emotion is a key factor in a
student's writing! The academic
environment should be about encouraging
discovery through writing and not just
simply crafting words. If this means pushing
students past their limits in an effort to do
some personal exploration, so be it! Like
Alice Brand said, it's so sad that students
these days are just writing to address the
topic and not actually putting in their input.

Alice Brand
Wendy Bishop there are so many
benefits of personal assignments I
totally agree! Getting students to
put their emotions on paper is
always one of my classroom goals
😊

Michelle Gibson I've personally seen


how students with pre-existing
childhood/household trauma react in an
academic environment. Like what Wendy
Bishop said, the classroom needs to
allow deep psychological exploration
through personal and/or expressive
assignments. Getting past this
emotional trauma helps prepare them for
the real world and harder academic
courses.

Pablo How can I tell if my students are


allowing their emotions to hinder their
writing? Are there specific things in the
text I should be looking for?

Lad Tobin
Pablo In my years of teaching, I've
realized that when reading
assignments, each piece of writing
must take into account our reading
as teachers of the students
themselves, our own unconscious
associations, and the nature of the
teacher-student relationship. As a
teacher, you need to see how
much of an assignment is actually
an individual's identity and how
much is a teacher's influence
Michelle Gibson The conventions of
writing can totally be affected by emotion
like Lad Tobin said. This makes it even
more evident why the classroom needs to
make students confront their emotions so
they can focus on creating their own
identity!

Sally Chandler I agree with Lad Tobin


that emotion, especially emotional trauma,
can affect a student's writing and the
teacher can influence the individual's
writing. However I disagree with Michelle
Gibson and Wendy Bishop; I don't
believe forcing personal assignments is
the best method of confronting emotions!

Wendy Bishop
Sally Chandler Pushing students
in the classroom will help prepare
them for future classes and allow
them to really know how to write in
academic environments! The pros
outweigh any cons!
Sally Chandler
Wendy Bishop When students are
stressed in a writing classroom, this
can push them to use clichéd,
generalized narratives. A student
should be able to form their own
identity without being pushed into
stressful situations that can force
them to resort to bland conventions!

Alice Brand Students learn differently as


they react to different ways of teaching!
No one right way is the proper method of
getting a student to acclimate and
embrace an academic environment.

Lad Tobin I agree with Alice Brand and


as long as the end goal is to get each
student to form an identity in their writing,
whether confronting their emotions or not,
then the classroom environment is a
success
Sam Rapp I guess to summarize it Pablo,
emotion does affect classroom writing.
When a student comes in with certain
feelings towards writing, this can totally
affect how they perform and write. It can
cause them to avoid writing from a
personal perspective and stick to common
narratives and themes.This is why it's so
important to associate writing with postive
emotions rather than negative
experiences. As for whether classroom
writing should encourage personal and
emotional exploration, this is really up to
the interpretation of the teacher. There is
evidence for both sides; some
environments work to push students to
write from a personal perspective while
others avoid the potential stress that could
occur from this environment. Whatever
side you decide to pursue in your teaching
environment is up to you, and as long as
you work on forming writing identities for
each individual student, you'll be
successful!
Works Cited/ Reference Page

Bishop, Wendy. "Writing Is/ And Therapy?: Raising Questions about Writing Classrooms and
Writing Program Administration." Journal of Advanced Composition 13.2 (1993): 503-16.

Brand, Alice. “Social Cognition, Emotions, and the Psychology of Writing.” JAC: Journal of
Advanced Composition, vol. 11, no. 2, 1991, pp. 395–408.

Chandler, Sally. (2007). Fear, teaching composition, and students' discursive choices: Re-
thinking connections between emotions and college student writing. Composition Studies
35.2, 53-70

Gibson, Michelle. (1996). An all-too familiar paradox: Familial diversity and the composition
classroom. Writing on the Edge 07.2, 23-31.

Tobin, Lad. “Reading Students, Reading Ourselves: Revising the Teacher's Role in the Writing
Class.” College English, vol. 53, no. 3, 1991, p. 333., doi:10.2307/378108.

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