
Teaching Writing
Originally published in 1986. The traditional approach to teaching writing concentrates on mastering the different aspects of writing in the hope that these will eventually unite as a set of integrated skills. More ''progressive'' teachers emphasise that writing is a total process which is ''caught'' intuitively rather than explicitly taught. Both models are partially unsatisfactory, and consequen...
Originally published in 1986. The traditional approach to teaching writing concentrates on mastering the different aspects of writing in the hope that these will eventually unite as a set of integrated skills. More ''progressive'' teachers emphasise that writing is a total process which is ''caught'' intuitively rather than explicitly taught. Both models are partially unsatisfactory, and consequen...