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Postgraduate Module Descriptor

EFPM318: Writing: the Future

This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:

Introduction:  the place of writing in the language curriculum; an overview of research in writing; learning to write; developing as a writer; articulating a pedagogy for writing.

The Writing Process:  cognitive models of the writing process; process theories of writing; students’ composing processes; the writing process in the curriculum; re-thinking  planning, drafting and revising as classroom processes.

Creative Writing:  theories of creativity; defining creativity writing; teachers’ thinking about creative writing; professional writers’ perspectives on writing;  teachers as writers; the creative writing workshop; developing students’ critical responses to writing; assessing creative writing.

The Grammar-Writing Relationship:  the historical grammar debate; prescriptive and descriptive grammar; grammar as choice; functionally-oriented grammar; metalinguistic understanding;  teaching grammar to support writing development.

Writing Conversations: the importance of talk in the teaching of writing; talk to support the writing process: generation, formulation, revision; managing effective classroom talk about writing; supporting metalinguistic conversations.

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

Module Dropbox for sharing resources and materials

Indicative Reading List

Beard, R   (2000)  Developing Writing 3-13   London: Hodder and Stoughton

Cremin, T and Myhill, D.A. (2012)  Writing Voices: Creating Communities of Writers  London: Routledge

Dymoke,  S. Lambirth, A. and Wilson, A.  (2013)  Making Poetry Matter: international research on poetry pedagogy  London: Bloomsbury Academic

Fisher, R. Jones, S. Larkin, S. and Myhill, D.  (2010)  Using Talk to Support WritingLondon: Sage

Graham, S., & Perin, D. (2007). Writing next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high schools – A report to Carnegie Corporation of New York. Washington, DC: Alliance for Excellent Education.

Hillocks, G  (2006)  Research in Writing, Secondary School 1984-2003  L1 Educational Studies in Languages and Literature 6 (2) 27-51

Kellogg, Ronald. T  (1994)  The Psychology of Writing   Oxford: Oxford University Press

Myhill, D.A and Wilson, A.C.  (2013) Playing it safe: Teachers’ views of creativity in poetry writing  Thinking Skills and Creativity  10: 101– 111  

Myhill, D.A.  Jones, S and Watson, A. (2013)  Grammar Matters: How Teachers’ Grammatical Subject Knowledge Impacts on the Teaching of Writing  Teaching and Teacher Education  36:77-91  

Smith, J and Elley, W  (1998)  How Children Learn to Write  London: Longman

Wilson, A.C. and Myhill, D.A.  (2012) Ways with Words:  Teachers’ Personal Epistemologies of the Role of Metalanguage in the Teaching of Poetry Writing  Language and Education  26 (6):553-568

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