Esta pesquisa surge de um desejo de sistematizar a prática com a Memorização Através da Escrita em função do processo de criação do ator com o texto dramático. Utilizo a noção de ¨jogo¨ spoliana e proponho o foco como instância organizadora do traballho. Investiguei duas modalidades de jogo distintas que contam com a Memorização Através da Escrita como procedimento introdutório. A primeira implica a transformação de partituras físicas em ações físicas. A segunda implica uma sucessão de revesamentos do ¨foco¨ onde estas ações são resgatadas no ¨lugar do espontâneo¨. Uma seqüência de ¨palavras inventadas¨ divide o foco com a enunciação do textodado e com ¨regras¨ que organizam o corpo no espaço. Monta-se, assim, um esquema dinâmico de revesamentos do foco que mantém ativos os impulsos para a fala e para a inscrição das ações. / This research came from a desire of systematize the practical work of the actor beyond memorizing the dramatic text from writing at the process of actors creation. Actually I use the notion of game from Viola Spolin and I do suggest the focus as manner of organize the entire work. I investigated two kind of distinguished modalities of game based on the memorization from writing at the beginning of the work. The first implicates the transformation of physical scores into physical actions. The second implicates in a succession of focus setbacks where this actions are rescued replacing the spontaneous. An invented word sequence divides the focus with the text enunciation and with some rules that organize the body on the space. In this way is possible to put on the stage a dynamic schedule of focusing that keep active the impulses to speech and for the insertion of actions.

Esta pesquisa surge de um desejo de sistematizar a prática com a Memorização Através da Escrita em função do processo de criação do ator com o texto dramático. Utilizo a noção de ¨jogo¨ spoliana e proponho o foco como instância organizadora do traballho. Investiguei duas modalidades de jogo distintas que contam com a Memorização Através da Escrita como procedimento introdutório. A primeira implica a transformação de partituras físicas em ações físicas. A segunda implica uma sucessão de revesamentos do ¨foco¨ onde estas ações são resgatadas no ¨lugar do espontâneo¨. Uma seqüência de ¨palavras inventadas¨ divide o foco com a enunciação do textodado e com ¨regras¨ que organizam o corpo no espaço. Monta-se, assim, um esquema dinâmico de revesamentos do foco que mantém ativos os impulsos para a fala e para a inscrição das ações. / This research came from a desire of systematize the practical work of the actor beyond memorizing the dramatic text from writing at the process of actors creation. Actually I use the notion of game from Viola Spolin and I do suggest the focus as manner of organize the entire work. I investigated two kind of distinguished modalities of game based on the memorization from writing at the beginning of the work. The first implicates the transformation of physical scores into physical actions. The second implicates in a succession of focus setbacks where this actions are rescued replacing the spontaneous. An invented word sequence divides the focus with the text enunciation and with some rules that organize the body on the space. In this way is possible to put on the stage a dynamic schedule of focusing that keep active the impulses to speech and for the insertion of actions.

While studies have shown that teacher and peer feedback are beneficial to students, research has also found that teachers can appropriate students' texts in their feedback, taking away authorship in the process (Brannon & Knoblauch, 1982; Goldstein, 2004). The present study addressed the type of written feedback that I gave my ESL composition students and the type of feedback they gave each other during the writing process, and it examined their responses to the feedback they received. As the response stance taken when providing feedback is a determiner of the level of control the feedback conveys (Straub & Lunsford, 1995), I investigated the stances that both I and my students took while providing feedback. Since my goal had been to avoid text appropriation, I wanted to learn if I was successful in taking a less controlling stance in the feedback that I gave to my students. In addition, I wanted to discover whether the stance my students took while giving feedback would change over the course of the semester. Further, I used a consciousness-raising pedagogical tool — the Cover Sheet — to examine the responses of the students to the feedback to determine if they thought critically about the feedback they had received. At the end of the study, I discovered that my intention to only provide feedback that was not considered controlling was too idealistic and that at least for ESL students, it is easier to understand feedback if it is more direct. Additionally, I found that those students who had an easier time understanding the feedback I gave them and used it to revise their papers ended up getting a higher grade in the course.