Embracing Change When ‘Writing for Change’: My Ph.D. Journey
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posted on 2023-05-24, 05:49authored byDamon Thomas
What is an appropriate structure for reporting a study that sought to understand and interpret the valued language choices in the highest scoring persuasive texts written by Tasmanian primary and secondary school students for the 2011 NAPLAN writing test, and to critique the impact of such high-stakes, standardised testing on Australian primary and secondary school teachers’ persuasive writing instruction, straddling between positivist, interpretivist and critical paradigms, and adopting qualitative research?
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Structuring the Thesis: Matching Method, Paradigm, Theories and Findings