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Playful Punctuation in Primary Children's Narrative Writing
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Andrew Burrell; Roger Beard – Research Papers in Education, 2024
Framed within the fields of applied linguistics and language play, the writing of three attainment groups of 9-11-year-old children was used to investigate their use of ludic (playful) punctuation in the composition of an imaginative narrative. The scripts were from a larger repeat-design study of writing development that addressed a range of…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Punctuation, Narration, Childrens Literature
Investigating Playful Punctuation in Children's Narrative and Persuasive Writing
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Andrew Burrell; Roger Beard – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2023
The writing of 38 9-10-year-old children was used to investigate their use of ludic (playful) punctuation in the composition of two kinds of writing, imaginative narrative and persuasive description. Framed within a consideration of language play in general, and children's use of punctuation in particular, the investigation revealed the ways in…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Punctuation, Children, Personal Narratives