Kate's story: Helping a student with essay writing

Innovations in Education and Teaching International

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 197-202

  Creme, Phyllis ^a  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 21444448390     PISSN: 14703297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1355800960330307     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. I first found this exercise in John Holt's How Children Fail, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1969.
2. It is developed more fully in Peter Elbow's Writing with Power, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1981.
3. The question of 'right brain' activity is explored in Rico Lusser's Natural Writing: Using right brain techniques to release yow creative powers, Tarcher, LA, 1983.
4. Mary Lea, Student life histories and learning, SRHE conference, The Student Experience, 1994.
5. This is not however true of all levels of education: for example, English teaching in schools since the 1960s has made extensive use of pupils' personal narrative as a means of learning.
6. The approach to studying that I am adopting is partly drawn from Graham Gibbs' work, particularly Teaching Students to Learn, Open University, 1981.