ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the writer development of two students, Michael and Rasmus, in the subject Danish. Their paths through 3 years of upper secondary school reflect resistance, development and embedment in relation to the written assignments, and the chapter addressess the following questions: how do they write throughout their upper secondary education? In many ways, our lives are structured in narratives, since our experiences with the world, human understanding and our interaction with others is fundamentally narrative. Narrative as mode organises the world by giving it meaning, context, and structure. Narratives are representations of real or imagined events, accomplished by anthropomorphic characters, in student assignments, typically human beings. Narratives, and ‘small stories’, have a double perspective as they can (re)present and (re)create meaning by (re)telling something with a narrative structure, or make use of narratives for creating new meaning and giving a structure to experience.
