School Discourse Learning to Write Across the Years of Schooling

Tracks the developmental changes in writing across the schools curriculum, enhancing a key area of research in applied linguistics.

Acknowledgements \ Notations \ 1. A functional approach to writing development \ 2. Writing stories in subject English \ 3. Writing to respond to and evaluate other texts \ 4. Reconstructing the past: recording and describing historical events \ 5.Reviewing the past: interpreting, explaining, arguing and debating historical events \ 6. Observing and writing about the natural world \ 7. Interpreting phenomena of the natural world \ 8. The developmental trajectory in writing \ References \ Index