Classroom Discourse and Communication Across the Curriculum1
Developing Knowledge That Is Personally and Professionally Useful
Personal Discourse
Function Expressive Writing
 Self-discovery
 Inner speech
Purpose Explains to Oneself
Audience Self and Trusted Others
 Privileges
Language of
Learner
 Accountability to
Self
 Journals
 Diaries
 Logs
 Notebooks
 Freewrites
 Braindumps
 Fridgenotes
 Post-it Notes
 Weblogs
Response Immediate: Shaping at
Point of Utterance
Time
Genre
Classroom Discourse
Interactive Writing
 Conversational
 Dialectic
Explains to Classroom
Colleagues
Classroom Community:
Familiar and Known
 Privileges
Language of
Classroom
Community
 Accountability to
Classmates
 Letters
 Notes
 Questions
 Poems
 Parodies
 E-mail
 Dialogue Journals
 Web Discussion
Boards
Quick: From “Real”
Audience—Visible and
Tactile
Public Discourse
Transactional Writing
 Informative
 Persuasive
Explains to Distant
Others
Distant and Other:
Unknown
 Privileges
Language of
Critical
Audiences
 Accountability to
Public
 Essays
 Articles
 Reports
 Proposals
 Memos
 Multimedia
 Web Publications
Lengthy: To
Publication or
Presentation
Classroom Environment:
 Social and Collaborative
 Respects Diversity and Risk Taking
 Active Learning and Interactive Teaching
 Motivation for Reading and Writing
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Art Young, Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum, 4th ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall,
2006): 35