Writing for Pleasure av Ross Young, Felicity Ferguson

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<P>This book explores what writing for pleasure means, and how it can be realised as a much-needed pedagogy whose aim is to develop children, young people, and their teachers as extraordinary and life-long writers. The approach described is grounded in what global research has long been telling us are the most effective ways of teaching writing and contains a description of the authors¿ own research project into what exceptional teachers of writing do that makes the difference.</P><P>The authors describe ways of building communities of committed and successful writers who write with purpose, power, and pleasure, and they underline the importance of the affective aspects of writing teaching, including promoting in apprentice writers a sense of self-efficacy, agency, self-regulation, volition, motivation, and writer-identity. They define and discuss 14 research-informed principles which constitute a <I>Writing for Pleasure </I>pedagogy and show how they are applied by teachers in classro