Mapping the Territory of Writing Studies

1. Esteem and writing

1.1. How does color theory (i.e. teachers grading in red pen) affect how children feel about their writing?

1.2. Is the new generation of writers considering how emojis play their part in written communication and story telling?

2. Is there correlation between writing studies, race and literacy?

2.1. Is equal representation the answer to diversity in writing studies?

2.1.1. Is that equal representation correlated with the entire population, or the school/classroom population?

2.2. How do we academicaly incoperate AAVE language students without associating them with illiteracy?

2.2.1. Why isn't AAVE treated as a first language, just as children who speak spanish at home?

3. Study Methods

3.1. How have the methods of studying expanded with writing studies?

3.2. Short hand (or stenography) is a language. How comparable is it to the modern "scribble" method?

3.2.1. Does that comparablility include the value of study retention?

3.3. Are color coded notes intertwined with early expose to acedemic esteem and color theory?

4. Literacy

4.1. How does literacy effect social status?

4.2. Literacy is an expectation to some and a privledge to others, why?

4.3. When do people learn to code switch, acedemically?

5. Identitiy in writing

5.1. How do we help children find their voice in writing, prior to college?

5.2. When is the point in grade school when children who are learning to write start to see writing as a deterent?

5.2.1. Is it when writing became a punishment, or did they become dissapointed enough in their preselected content that they decided they no longer enjoyed it?