Tellings of Remembrances 'Touched off' by Student Reports in Group Work in Undergraduate Writing Classes

Instructors of college/university writing classes commonly ask their students to ‘share their ideas’ in groups. This paper aims to describe the sequential structures of a kind of talk typical to group work: students presenting ‘reports’ about early written drafts. Specifically, the data analysis in this paper looks at how a student's report ‘touches off’ another student's telling of a remembrance caused by the report, which in turn offers a...