Journal Entry 9

1. Through the research, the writer examines possible goals within the activity system and how the goals can affect student writing. The writer also studies the resistance, contradictions, and conflicts in writing to reveal the ways that motivation and individual identity can shape writing.

The writer uses the following questions to guide her research:

• In what ways do writers represent their selves as they situate themselves within an activity system.?
• What might studying writers' self-representation of that process reveal to us in terms of genres and activity systems.
• What might the implications be for our own teaching?

2. The author collects the data that she needs to answer her question by doing a series of case studies and experiments and analyzing different genres of activity systems.

3. Depending on the topic, most of my peers use familiar genres primarily because they've have previous acquaintance with or an experience in which they can elaborate on.