Jennifer Reid’s research while affiliated with Marquette University and other places

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Publications (2)


A Taxonomy of Life Writing: Exploring the Functions of Meaningful Self-Sponsored Writing in Everyday Life
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December 2023

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Heather Lindenman

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Dana Lynn Driscoll

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Andrea Efthymiou

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Jennifer Reid

This essay takes as its focus the everyday writing that people compose: the self-sponsored, nonobligatory texts that people write mainly outside of work and school. Through analysis of 713 survey responses and 27 interviews with accompanying writing samples, this study provides a panoramic view of the functions of self-sponsored writing and rhetorical activity for U.S. adults, ages 18 to 65+ years, from a range of geographic, cultural, and professional backgrounds. The Taxonomy of Life Writing presented in this essay demonstrates the range of ways that writing functions in people’s daily lives. It includes 19 key functions of life writing, organized into six metafunctions: Creativity and Expression, Identity and Relationships, Organization and Coordination, Preservation and Memory, Reflection and Emotion, and Teaching and Learning. Based on our findings, we affirm the important and diverse functions that life writing serves and propose expanding the threshold concepts of writing to include greater focus on nonobligatory, self-sponsored writing activity.


Writing to Learn Beyond the University: Preparing Lifelong Learners for Lifewide Writing

October 2022

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Writing Beyond the University: Preparing Lifelong Learners for Lifewide Writing extends the burgeoning scholarly conversation regarding the role of writing in lifelong and lifewide learning. The collection introduces higher education faculty, staff, and administrators to research on how all members of a campus community can prepare learners to be effective writers beyond the university, in personal, professional, and civic contexts. The collection also discusses how to teach writing and teach with writing across the academic disciplines and in a variety of co-curricular spaces, such as student life, student employment, and career services, and in internship, co-ops, and work-integrated learning opportunities.

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... At the cognitive or reflective level, investigations into writer identity have examined how writer's reflections and perceptions influence their writer identity. For example, Lindenman et al. (2024) explore writer identity as exemplified in nonobligatory "life" writing (e.g., diary or journal writing, social media posts, and speeches), finding that writers tended to construct their personal identities through writing for emotional well-being, memory curation, and reflection. Studies of academic writing also find that writers' reflections affect their self-perception as writers. ...

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Getting to "the Upper End of the Novice Zone": An Exploration of Doctoral Students' Writer Identity in Coauthoring With Supervisors for Publication
A Taxonomy of Life Writing: Exploring the Functions of Meaningful Self-Sponsored Writing in Everyday Life
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  • December 2023

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