Improving Year 12's extended writing
Teaching History article
By Mary Brown, published 22nd March 2013
From Muddleton Manor to Clarity Cathedral: improving Year 12's extended writing through an enhanced sense of the reader
Mary Brown recognised that her A-level students were finding extended writing difficult, particularly in terms of guiding the reader through the argument with appropriate ‘signposting'. To help her students manage this, Brown devised a metaphor to represent the construction of a piece of argumentative writing which she deployed over a sequence of lessons. This metaphor helped students reflect explicitly on the way in which an argument is structured over a piece of extended writing.
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