The title of this monography is Discourses of Writing in the Curriculum of the A-course in Swedish. The aim of this monograph is to find wich forms and discourses of writing that are emphasized and premiered in the curriculum for the first course in Swedish during secondary education in Sweden, grades 10-12. What kind of writing are presented to the students and what potentially miss due to the selection? Is any form of writing presented more thoroughly or as more important than any other in the curriculum? The professor of linguistics, Roz Ivanic, has formed different discourses of writing that she has found being used in education of writing. With these discourses of writing  I have applied them on the curriculum and then been able to see wich forms of writing that are premiered. By using close reading as a method of analyze I have been able to interpret the curriculum. I have connected close reading as a method with the hermeneutic analysis tradition. The discourses of writing is my tool and my theory wich holds different forms of writing that are connected to earlier science of writing that I present as a background in the monograph. The conclusion I have reached are that the curriculum holds four discourses of writing. That means that the form of writing that are presented to the students are a writing to imitate other types of texts, a grammatical correct spelling, a thotoughly processed text and knowledge about their own mental process that is activated during writing. The diskourse of writing that is presented as the most important in the curriculum is the skills discourse of writing. That leads to a form of writing in grammatically correct writing and prepares the students to adjust to a writing that is presented mainly in higher forms of education.

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Writing tasks are central in the subject of Swedish, and they can be designed in various ways. The variation in design when teachers construct their own writing tasks can be due to differing views of the teaching of writing and exercises in writing. The aim of this work is to investigate how different discourses about writing and learning to write become visible in teachers’ constructions of writing tasks, and whether there are different degrees of steering in the tasks in relation to the discourse(s) to which they can be said to belong. Twelve writing tasks were examined in the study with the aid of Ivanič’s (2004) framework for analysis of discourses about writing and learning to write, and the result shows that the creativity discourse dominates among the tasks and that the sociopolitical discourse is sparsely represented among them. Several tasks have features of more than one discourse and can therefore be called hybrids. The degree of steering by the designer of the task differs between the tasks. In tasks that can be linked to the skills discourse there is usually a high degree of steering of the content, and in tasks that can be linked to the creativity discourse the designer of the task uses a different form of steering with questions which mean that the teacher gains access to personal information about the pupils.

Syftet med studien är att undersöka vilka skrivdiskurser som framkommer när F-3 lärare talar om sin skrivundervisning och elevers skrivmotivation, med diskursanalys som teoretiskt angreppssätt. I tidigare forskning redogörs för studier från en nationell såväl som internationell kontext. De valda studierna ger en bakgrund till forskningsområdena skrivdiskurser och skrivmotivation. Metoden i studien utgörs av semistrukturerade intervjuer med sju verksamma F-3 lärare. Resultatet visar hur lärares sätt att tala om skrivande domineras av en färdighetsdiskurs. Resultatet synliggör även en diskrepans i lärarnas sätt att förhålla sig till olika skrivdiskurser, samt hur en lärare särskiljer sig från resterande lärare. I relation till elevers skrivmotivation framkommer flera kopplingar till olika skrivdiskurser. Det finns en diskrepans i lärarnas sätt att tala om skrivmotivation i relation till olika skrivdiskurser, samt hur detta speglas i lärarnas motivationsstrategier. I diskussionen lyfts, utifrån tidigare forskning, hur färdighetsdominansen kan bero på en yttre press från nationella mätningar. I diskussionen ifrågasätts även färdighetsdiskursens möjligheter att skapa en inre motivation. Slutsatsen är att en social praktikdiskurs verkar vara gynnsam för elevers skrivmotivation, samt att denna diskurs kan användas oavsett undervisningskontextens yttre förutsättningar. För professionen skapar studiens bidrag en större medvetenhet om hur olika skrivdiskursiva praktiker relaterar till elevers skrivmotivation.