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Barrs, Myra – English in Education, 2019
This article is a critique of current approaches to the teaching and assessment of writing in schools in the UK. Successive government initiatives, most particularly the latest (impoverished) version of the English curriculum, are seen as having led to a situation in which pupils are taught in a way that does not improve the quality of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation, National Curriculum