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Burrell, Andrew; Beard, Roger – Education 3-13, 2018
There has been little research into how children use language play in writing. The unprompted language play of 36 children was investigated through their writing of a short advertisement. The sample comprised three attainment sub-groups from a larger repeat-design study of persuasive writing in the 9-11 age-range. The writing was analysed using…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Elementary School Students, Persuasive Discourse, Qualitative Research