Another Look at Student Writing and Stages of Intellectual Development

Abstract

Theories of intellectual development offer writing teachers productive ways to analyze student writing, to help students develop strategies for improving their writing processes, and to consider the implications of writing assignments. Frameworks posited by Piaget (see Modgil, 1974), Perry (1968), and Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger, and Tarule (1986) contribute particularly useful ways of understanding why student writers may be having difficulties and how writing teachers and tutors can help students in their intellectual development.