Postgraduate Module Descriptor


EFPM318: Writing: the Future

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

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

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