Ross Young
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The #WritingForPleasure Centre | Literacy Lab - University of Edinburgh | Real-World Writers | Science Of Teaching Primary Writing | How To Teach Writing | #WritingRocks
Website: writing4pleasure.com
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Website: writing4pleasure.com
PhD Profile: blogs.ed.ac.uk/literacylab/the-writing
Portfolio assessment is miles ahead of a writing test IMO. The criteria/statements for the current portfolio assessment aren’t the best though. 👇
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Writing Tests Are Not The Answer You Are Looking For
Writing is a process not an event. We’ve written this post because there has been a lot of discussion about the Writing Framework recently and this has caused some to romanticise the days of writin…
writing4pleasure.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Portfolio assessment is miles ahead of a writing test IMO. The criteria/statements for the current portfolio assessment aren’t the best though. 👇
writing4pleasure.com/2020/08/17/w...
writing4pleasure.com/2020/08/17/w...
It's cheating children and young people out of the writerly apprenticeship that they deserve.
January 30, 2026 at 2:47 PM
It's cheating children and young people out of the writerly apprenticeship that they deserve.
This is really excellent. Thanks so much for sharing!
January 24, 2026 at 4:49 PM
This is really excellent. Thanks so much for sharing!