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| - | Many of us have grown up hearing the proverbial advice “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” While this encourages persistence and resilience and may be accepted as good counsel, it conveniently elides the word for the experience it describes: failure. To be unsuccessful is to fail. It is also deeply a human experience and one that is essential to the learning process. Writing in particular requires students to be given “the opportunity to try, to fail, and to learn from those failures as a means of intellectual growth” (63) according to Collin Brooke and Allison Carr in Naming What You Know. Failure is essential to the writing process because it teaches students to take risks and learn from their mistakes. | + | Many of us have grown up hearing the proverbial advice “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” While this encourages persistence and resilience and may be accepted as good counsel, it conveniently elides the word for the experience it describes: failure. To be unsuccessful is to fail. It is also deeply a human experience and one that is essential to the learning process. Writing in particular requires students to be given “the opportunity to try, to fail, and to learn from those failures as a means of intellectual growth” (63) according to Collin Brooke and Allison Carr in //Naming What You Know//. Failure is essential to the writing process because it teaches students to take risks and learn from their mistakes. |
| ===== Defining and Assessing Failure | ===== Defining and Assessing Failure | ||
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| - | Brooke, Collin, and Allison Carr. “Failure Can Be an Important Part of Writing Development.” Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies, by Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth A. Wardle, Utah State University Press, 2016, pp. 62–64. | + | Brooke, Collin, and Allison Carr. “Failure Can Be an Important Part of Writing Development.” |
| - | French, Amanda. “‘Fail Better’: Reconsidering the Role of Struggle and Failure in Academic Writing Development in Higher Education: Journal of the Association for Programmed Learning.” Innovations in Education and Teaching International, | + | French, Amanda. “‘Fail Better’: Reconsidering the Role of Struggle and Failure in Academic Writing Development in Higher Education: Journal of the Association for Programmed Learning.” |
| - | Hilppö, Jaakko, and Reed Stevens. “‘Failure is just another Try”: Re-Framing Failure in School through the FUSE Studio Approach.” International Journal of Educational Research, vol. 99, 2020, pp. 101494. | + | Hilppö, Jaakko, and Reed Stevens. “‘Failure is just another Try”: Re-Framing Failure in School through the FUSE Studio Approach.” |
| - | Inoue, Asao B. “Theorizing Failure in US Writing Assessments.” Research in the Teaching of English, vol. 48, no. 3, National Council of Teachers of English, 2014, pp. 330–52. | + | Inoue, Asao B. “Theorizing Failure in US Writing Assessments.” |
| - | “Making Meaning Out of Failure.” Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning Through Research, Northeastern University, 21 Dec. 2018, https:// | + | “Making Meaning Out of Failure.” |
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