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The Facilitating Effects of Goal Setting on the Persuasiveness of Writing Difficulties Students’ Persuasive Essays

WU Hong-jun, LIU Xiang-ping, DU Ying   

  1. School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2006-01-15 Published:2006-01-15

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Abstract: Students with writing dif iculties wrote persuasive essays in 3 different goal conditions.Students in the general goal condition were asked to write an essay according to a topic,and the general goal is that the audience should be agree with their positions.Students in the subgoal condition were given the same general goal plus explicit subgoals based on the elements of argumentative discourse.Students in the oral argument condition were showed the same general goal and subgoals,besides,they also had an oral argument with their partners before writing.The result was that students in the subgoal condition produced more persuasive essays than the general goal condition and the oral argument plus subgoal condition.Students in the subgoal condition and the oral argument plus subgoal condition wrote more integrated essays than the general goal condition.In all goal conditions,subgoal improved the essays' persuasiveness of students with writing difficulties the most.

Key words: goal-setting, subgoal setting, writing difficulties

CLC Number: 

  • G442
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