Martin, J. R. 1950-
Factual Writing : Exploring and Challenging Social Reality / J.R. Martin. - 2nd ed. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1989. - xiv, 101 p. : cov. ill. ; 25 cm. - Language education Oxford English . - Language education (Oxford, England) Oxford English. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 64-68).
"Factual writing: exploring and challenging social reality describes the different types of writing that are used as tools of communication in the adult world, and compares the writing tasks that teachers set their pupils and the ways in which they measure their success. By analysing the different skills required within the school context and the outside world, J.R. Martin suggests how the education process could become appropriate to the needs of the individual." (Book Cover) CONTENTS About the author
Foreword
Factual writing: exploring and challenging social reality
Chapter 1 Stories and facts
Recounts Procedure writing
Report writing
Creativity and imagination in factual writing
Developing report writing
Explanations Sexism and factual writing
Exposition
Factual writing: summary
Chapter 2 Types of Exposition: 'persuading that' and 'persuading to'
Analytical and Hortatory Exposition
Hortatory Exposition
Reasoning in Exposition
Personality in Exposition
Exposition and metaphor
Reason, personality, and metaphor in Exposition
Spoken and written modes Chapter 3 Challenging social reality: Hortatory and Analytical Exposition in adult writing
Ideology in crisis
Ideology and genre
Differences between the Hortatory and Analytical texts
Protagonists changing the world
Is factual writing 'factual'?
Chapter 4 The way things are: children writing in infants' and primary school
Writing and power
Learning what to write
Types of writing in infants' and primary school
Children
Sexism
Capitalism What is to be done? Epilogue References Further reading
Readings 1. Two varieties of writing: Report and Exposition / Joan Rothery
2. Exposition: literary criticism / J.R. Martin
Technical terms
Acknowledgements
0194371581 (pbk)
B8959680
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Secondary)
LB1631 / .M27 1989 PE1404 / M381 1989
Factual Writing : Exploring and Challenging Social Reality / J.R. Martin. - 2nd ed. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1989. - xiv, 101 p. : cov. ill. ; 25 cm. - Language education Oxford English . - Language education (Oxford, England) Oxford English. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 64-68).
"Factual writing: exploring and challenging social reality describes the different types of writing that are used as tools of communication in the adult world, and compares the writing tasks that teachers set their pupils and the ways in which they measure their success. By analysing the different skills required within the school context and the outside world, J.R. Martin suggests how the education process could become appropriate to the needs of the individual." (Book Cover) CONTENTS About the author
Foreword
Factual writing: exploring and challenging social reality
Chapter 1 Stories and facts
Recounts Procedure writing
Report writing
Creativity and imagination in factual writing
Developing report writing
Explanations Sexism and factual writing
Exposition
Factual writing: summary
Chapter 2 Types of Exposition: 'persuading that' and 'persuading to'
Analytical and Hortatory Exposition
Hortatory Exposition
Reasoning in Exposition
Personality in Exposition
Exposition and metaphor
Reason, personality, and metaphor in Exposition
Spoken and written modes Chapter 3 Challenging social reality: Hortatory and Analytical Exposition in adult writing
Ideology in crisis
Ideology and genre
Differences between the Hortatory and Analytical texts
Protagonists changing the world
Is factual writing 'factual'?
Chapter 4 The way things are: children writing in infants' and primary school
Writing and power
Learning what to write
Types of writing in infants' and primary school
Children
Sexism
Capitalism What is to be done? Epilogue References Further reading
Readings 1. Two varieties of writing: Report and Exposition / Joan Rothery
2. Exposition: literary criticism / J.R. Martin
Technical terms
Acknowledgements
0194371581 (pbk)
B8959680
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Secondary)
LB1631 / .M27 1989 PE1404 / M381 1989