English Teaching: Practice and Critique

Writing poetry...and beyond

Volume 2 Number 2 September 2003

Douglas McClenaghan (Monash University, Australia)

This article examines a piece of writing produced by a year nine student in a Literature elective class. This student text challenges conventional understandings of "writing", "poetry" and "text", and offers an example of how one student has used multimodality to create a distinctive text.

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