James Heal

Teaching writing? Why on earth would we bother about teaching writing nowadays? In this day and age, nobody writes – let alone reads what has been written. That’s, in fact, what many people’s reaction would be to the question ‘should we do more writing in class?’. I personally believe that writing is still happening, although not in the way perhaps we traditionally associate it with. We might not write in pen or on paper but we are all still writing quite a lot. We are active on digital platforms such as Instagram or Facebook; we are still sending numerous written...

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