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• W9809520 abstract "We can learn much about teaching writing from James Britton. Against the cries of countless textbooks for Clarity and Structure, he reminds us that our language is first of all a way for us to be with one another, to commune as well as to communicate. Against the over-riding concerns of most teachers with issues of control in writing, with the conscious planning and revising of texts, he urges us to trust more to our natural and spontaneous ability to use words to find out what we're trying to say as we say it, to shape meaning at the point of utterance. And against a system of schooling which uses writing largely as a tool for testing, so that most of what our students write is destined less to be read than it is to be corrected, he insists that no one can learn to write well without first being given the chance to write about what matters to her, for a reader who will respond to not merely the form but also the sense of what she has to say. All this points us toward a far more open and sane practice of teaching than has often been the case. It is unfortunate, then, that what Britton is best known for his theory of the functions of writing should be at odds, in crucial ways, with how he would have us work with language in the classroom. For while he has often argued that our views of the world and our places in it are formed in large part through the stories we tell one another, his theory of the functions separates the telling of such stories from our other more transactional uses of language, making it seem a special poetic concern only. And while Britton clearly most values language for the opportunities it offers us for play, intimacy, and self-expression, his theory defines a literary work as a verbal object ... a unity that is isolated from the ordinary traffic of existence (1984, p. 322). We find, then, in his theory, the human concerns involved in a transactive view of language uneasily joined to a formalist poetics. To get at what is most useful in Britton's thinking we thus need to move past what is best known. This will require us to look closely at" @default.
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• W9809520 title "The Spectator as Theorist: Britton and the Functions of Writing" @default.
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