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Warbrick, Anna – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
This essay explores the importance of formative creative writing in schools through a Key Stage 3 Creative Writing lunchtime club. I examine the power of unassessed and unconstrained writing through the work of one Year 8 pupil in the early stages of English language acquisition, who so often chooses to write about snow. Reflecting on her writing,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creative Writing, Clubs, National Curriculum
Keen, John – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2022
This article discusses two schemes for teaching writing in schools. One uses analysis of model texts into techniques and devices then application of these by students to their written compositions and one uses a process approach that includes pre-writing and exploring, drafting, sharing and discussing, revising and celebrating to exploit students'…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition), Writing Strategies
Nevin, Christine – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
This essay draws from the experience of observing writing practices in English lessons from 2010-2019, to suggest that the influence of education policy during this phase prioritises preparation for examination questions above the imperatives of learner creativity or volition. Through discussion of ways in which the 'high stakes' examination…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Educational Policy, English Instruction, Teacher Student Relationship
Gilbert, Francis – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
This article examines the deeper purposes behind the teaching of creative writing. To extend an analogy created by William Blake in his poem 'The Tyger', its furnaces are examined and its 'deadly terrors' clasped. It re-interprets the different views of teaching English, as drawn up in the United Kingdom's Cox Report. It argues that these views…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Creative Writing, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods
Smith, Lorna – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2019
It is now five years since the introduction of the current National Curriculum for English in England; it is just over 50 years since the Dartmouth Conference drew together American and English educationalists. This paper reports on a hermeneutic study that presents voices from the field of English teaching in England. It asks questions of today's…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Creative Teaching, National Curriculum, Hermeneutics
Keen, John – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2017
This article outlines some cognitive process models of writing composition. Possible reasons why students' writing capabilities do not match their abilities in some other school subjects are explored. Research findings on the efficacy of process approaches to teaching writing are presented and potential shortcomings are discussed. Product-based…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing (Composition), Cognitive Processes, Writing Ability
Burgess, Tony; Ellis, Viv; Roberts, Sarah – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2010
James Moffett's "Teaching the Universe of Discourse" set out an agenda for the study of development in writing, which influenced James Britton's work in the UK. Subsequently, however, the work of both these thinkers was largely set aside in the approach to writing taken by national strategies in England. In this article, we trace the…
Descriptors: Discourse Modes, Discourse Analysis, Writing Strategies, Educational History