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About six months ago, I came across a news article featuring a poem that a seven-year-old had creatively composed on his remote learning experience during the time of isolation (Dailydot.com, [...]

Over the last two decades, changes in educational policies have led to increased teacher accountability and the advent of high stakes testing. In Australia, concern has been expressed over the results from international and national tests such as NAEP and NAPLAN Key stakeholders in education have therefore, explored ways to improve learner results. One way to improve results might be through improving writing teaching practices. There is a plethora of research available providing models and strategies to improve writing teaching practices. One strategy is to teach 'writing for learning' practices. However, questions remain over whether teachers are enacting these models and strategies in their writing teaching practices, and what might be impacting the inclusion of these writing teaching practices at the local site level. This article describes one writing teaching practice of a middle school teacher at an independent school in Queensland, Australia. The theory of practice architectures was employed to interrogate the enabling and constraining conditions that were evident as this teacher went about teaching writing practices in a Year 9 elective subject, Business Studies. The research found that whilst the teacher taught aspects of 'writing for learning' practices, the practices and practice architectures at the site formed a complex nest of interrelationships that impacted each other. In this article, we argue that, in order to change practice, it is necessary to change the conditions that both enable and constrain the teaching of writing practices., Introduction Over the last two decades, one trend in education has been the assumption, both internationally and nationally, that all teachers are teachers of literacy. In part, this has been [...]

Reading Culture and Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France by Martyn Lyons. Studies in Book and Print Culture. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2008. 245 pp. $55.00 Cdn (cloth). The newest [...]

Martin Lyons, Reading Culture and Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France (Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press 2008) THIS COMPACT collection of ten essays, six of which have already [...]

Listening for students' voices through positional writing practices helps teachers hear and understand how students some time struggle with who they are as learners. The story of Mark is presented which indicates that teachers who provide opportunities for positional writing practices allow students to explore creative, academic and personal ways to use their writing to reflect upon and shape their identities.

An assessment of student perceptions of collaborative writing practices before and after taking an upper division professional writing class is presented. Findings indicate that engineering and technology students are already predisposed to value peer review and collaborative writing practices, regardless of whether they have taken a professional writing course or have been exposed to these practices in the classroom.

Instant messaging (IM) and its cell-phone sibling, texting, are much used and beloved by young people but sometimes are ridiculed or even reviled by adults. Periodically, newspaper articles recount how [...]

A presidential address, which can be considered a genre in its own right, offers an opportunity to experiment with the conventions of scholarly literature. I have taken one liberty. Instead [...]

This article explores the postmodern approach to qualitative research and using the narrative in writing. The author discusses the virtues of postmodern ethnographic research and writing, in which the humanity of the researcher is presented.

This article discusses the cultural and historical aspects of love letter writing. Topics include literacy, code writing, letter burning, etiquette, and fantasy.

The social and moral landscape of Moe, Victoria, Australia was examined under a media microscope during a news onslaught on the murder of young resident Jaidyn Leskie. Sensational stories were written about the murder victim's unconventional family but the town was also depicted as negative and bizarre. The local press took on the hostile metropolitan press and readers fought back by contributing to a special regional edition of the paper.

The sixth moment of qualitative inquiry demands that researchers rethink traditional definitions of ethical research practices. In addition, the crisis of representation demands that researchers rethink the function of writing [...]

Lyons, Martyn. Reading Culture and Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Pp. 245. ISBN 978-0-8020-9357-8 This volume contains four photographs of oddly poor quality, apparently [...]

Author Sarah Waters has incorporated lesbian reading and writing practices in her novels. 'Fingersmith,' featured the relationship between the two leading women characters. Waters has used storyline scenarios associated with Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to explore same-sex female relationships.

The study of English language learners involving six Mandarin-speaking and five Spanish-speaking elementary students revealed that students engaged in a variety of writing practices at home and school. The study has addressed some of the gaps in the literature on English language learners' writing and has identified the conditions that support student's development as writers.

A history of the progression of private journal keeping to publication of beat movement works by small presses is presented. Works of Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg and Joanne Kyger are discussed.