Date of Graduation
Summer 2021
Degree
Master of Arts in Writing
Department
English
Committee Chair
Margaret Weaver
Abstract
Research on dialogue journals has grown in the last fifty years, but a gap exists in understanding how and why these dialogue journals work. During the fall of 2020, I conducted a study utilizing quantitative data to examine how dialogue journals impact student’s self-confidence, self-efficacy, and rapport. The data has confirmed that dialogue journals are effective classroom tools and that various aspects such as word count and purpose can be impacted in connection to student’s perceptions of themselves. This project responds to the gap in the literature and provides data to support how and why dialogue journals promote growth in basic writing classrooms.
Keywords
basic writing, dialogue journals, self-efficacy, self-confidence, rapport
Subject Categories
Rhetoric and Composition
Copyright
© Timothy Jacob Pyatt
Recommended Citation
Pyatt, Timothy Jacob, "The Co-Requisite Collaboration: Building Self-Confidence, Self-Efficacy, and Rapport through Dialogue Journals in a Basic Writing Course" (2021). MSU Graduate Theses. 3683.
https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/3683
