地区作文集『ささぶね』にみる意見文の論証的要素の出現の様相

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The main object of this study is to show how students' opinion writings have formed by researching and analyzing them. The emphasis is on clarifying how the argument has been demonstrated in the opinion writings, and by doing so, I believe this study will help facilitate future lessons on opinion writing. I have used "Sasabune," a collection of selected published writings by local students, as a research subject to analyze and also to discuss two areas: quantitative and quality shifts. In order to examine the quantitative change, I have selected opinion writings out of all the writings from Sasabune, evaluated under the new National Curriculum Standards, and examined tendencies over the years. In regard to quality shifts, I have set up five components: these are conclusions, data, reasoning, evidence, and rebuttal, to see if all the elements were included in each opinion writing. From the quantitative viewpoint, there were almost no opinion writings written until 1989, yet many have been written afterwards. From a quality perspective, comparing the time when the volume of writings was higher (during the Heisei period, since 1989 to the present) and the time when the number was lower (in the late Showa period, through 1989), it is hard to say that the writings are of better quality, though there are more of them from the Heisei period.
2011-03-31