Tracing Resonance

Examining Intertextual Connections in Written Arguments: A Study of Student Writing as Social Participation and Response

“…Next, we categorized the tracings by what was borrowed from the originating text or event. We began with thematic tracings, drawing on Stornaiuolo and Hall’s (2014) work, to account for topics and ideas that students used that reflected those used previously. However, we noticed that students also borrowed structures, such as the ABCD claim structure, and they borrowed specific words and disciplinary language.…”

“…Throughout this article, we draw on key terms from scholarship and use them to explore our research questions and classroom context. Specifically, we use the term "intertextual trace" to signify material presence of intertextuality in writing; we use the term "intertextual connections" to signify actions writers make to insert a previous text into a new text; we use "resonance" (see Stornaiuolo & Hall, 2014) to explore "the intertextual echoing of ideas across people, spaces, and texts" (p. 29) and thus to conceptualize social interactions that are being made material in the writing; and we use "intertextual gap" to examine how writers attempt to widen (to create distance) or close the gap (to maintain relationships) between their own perspectives and other texts and people to which they are responding in classroom settings.…”

“…Roozen (2010) also employed close, intertextual analysis but did so to understand how a graduate student imported reading and writing practices from outside of school literacies in her academic writing. Also beyond the classroom, Stornaiuolo and Hall (2014) found that in a networked writing space, multiple students’ writing across time showed “resonance, the intertextual echoing of ideas across people, spaces, and texts” (p. 29). As students were writing together within the same networked space, they began to interact with each other’s writing by echoing previous writers’ themes.…”

Researching students across spaces and places: capturing digital data ‘on the go’

“…It is also unsuitable when mobile devices are used across different spaces, such as in classrooms where students may move with their device to work with others, or use it to capture information outside or in other areas of the school. Stornaiuolo and Hall (2014) argue new approaches and data methods are needed that enable researchers to trace what they term learning resonance with and through digital devices, across time and space. The complexity of researching learning interactions involving large networks of electronically connected students, and increasing use of mobile devices enhancing levels of learning flexibility 'challenges researchers to develop multifaceted methods for capturing and making sense of these connections and movements' (Stornaiuolo and Hall 2014, 29).…”