Teaching writing is complex and research related to approaches that support students'
understanding and outcomes in written assessment is prolific. Written aspects including text …

This article contributes to the growing body of research in teacher professional development
that involves teachers of writing as creative writers. The authors draw on the discussions and …

In this paper a collaborative research and development project being undertaken by a
consortia of primary schools in the Southeast and three higher education tutors is described …

This paper explores the concerns which prompted the introduction of an innovative Masters
level module designed for practising teachers at a university in the UK. The module was …

Creative Writing (CW) courses and degrees are growing in numbers and influence. They are
fashionable for students to enrol on, fashionable for institutions to offer. CW courses have an …

Writing is a complex and highly individual activity, which is approached in different ways by
different writers. Writers reflexively mediate subjective and objective conditions in specific …

This multiple case study investigated how the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for
writing and teacher evaluation system based in part on CCSS assessments might be …

In this article I explore the idea of strengthening agency in middle school students in regard
to writing and building the skills and confidence of students so that they can be writers who …

Writing requires a high level of nuanced decision-making related to language, purpose,
audience, and medium. Writing teachers thus need a deep understanding of language …

In this paper, the writing teacher is a teacher who writes and thinks of writing in a verbal
sense, as a performance and not the object that is the written. The paper explores …