Review of 'School Discourse: Learning to Write across the Years of Schooling', Francis Christie and Beverly Derewianka, London: Continuum, 2008

Abstract

'School Discourse' is a comprehensive resource reporting on the research conducted for over 20 years by Christie and Derewianka. Based on their journey deep into writing development, they present their findings from various disciplines and genres based on data consisting of texts from Australian primary and secondary school students. The question of how primary and secondary school students ameliorate writing skills is put under the lens through the documentation of student texts with meticulous analysis.