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Burrell, Andrew; Beard, Roger – Literacy, 2010
This paper explores primary school children's ability to engage with "the power of the text" by tackling persuasive writing in the form of an advertisement. It is eclectically framed within genre theory and rhetorical studies and makes use of linguistic tools and concepts. The paper argues that writing research has not built upon earlier…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Persuasive Discourse, Advertising
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Fidalgo, Raquel; Torrance, Mark; Garcia, Jesus-Nicasio – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2008
We compared 56 eighth-grade students who, 28 months previously, had received instruction in strategies for planning and revising their writing, with 21 students of similar academic ability from the same school who had not experienced the intervention. Both groups wrote an expository essay whilst logging their writing activities and completed…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Intervention, Self Efficacy, Writing Instruction