Abstract:

The purpose of this research is to determine the attitudes of students who are studying in high school to write in terms of various variables; to provide results and suggestions from the findings obtained. The data related to the study was collected with the "Writing Attitude Scale to High School Students" which was developed by Akaydın and Kurnaz (2015). In the analysis of data, visual statistics were used; the data collected through the survey, independent sampling t test and one-factor variance analysis (ANOVA) were understood. The research was carried out with 398 students who are studying in various high schools in the center of Kütahya during the 2017-2018 academic year. According to the findings, high school students’ attitudes towards writing did not show significant differences from the schools in which they were educated; they show significant differences in favor of girls by gender, and the attitude towards writing decreased as the class levels increased. Also, it has been seen that I like reading and I don’t like the Turkish language and literature lessons, according to the circumstances, the result has shown a significant difference in favor of those who love. Students who spend more time reading books, less reading or not reading, have a higher writing attitude than students who spend less time reading. The conclusion is that their writing attitudes differ significantly in favor of the writers/poets in their free time from the students.

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