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ToolsGonzalez-Diaz, Victorina, Parr, Elizabeth and Nourie, Kristi (2025) Using constructs of 'good' writing to develop 'a voice of one's own' in the primary school classroom. Literacy, 59 (1). pp. 34-54. ISSN 1741-4350
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Abstract
Partly as result of the predominant ‘narrow’ view ofwriting in England’s recent school curriculum and as-sessment, current primary school pupils often hold askills-oriented view of ‘good’ writing for a substan-tially longer period than has traditionally been re-ported in the literature. This makes it difficult forteachers to promote and engage children with writingin the classroom and—crucially for the present paper—limits pupils’ awareness of the wide stock of re-sources they can exploit in their practice, thusimpacting on the development of their writer identity.This paper reports on the pupil impact of ateacher-led project on ‘good’ writing constructs carriedout in Merseyside schools in spring 2023. Results fromthis mixed methods study suggest that classroom ac-tivities aimed at developing in pupils a holistic conceptof ‘good’ school writing provides children with greaterawareness of the notion of ‘choice’ in the writing pro-cess, hence fostering self-efficacy mechanisms that en-courage the resourcefulness, creativity andindividuality essential to writer identity creation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Funding information: This work was funded by the UKRI Policy and Participatory Scheme (PPQR 2023) via the University of Liverpool (Grant ID 177997). |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Education and Lifelong Learning |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 06 May 2025 15:30 |
| Last Modified: | 06 May 2025 19:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/99190 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/lit.12397 |
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