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StorageSiteUCL Institute of Education
LevelFile
Reference Number JB/2/12
TitleVarious Articles 1960s-1970s
Date[1965]-1979
DescriptionVarious articles written by Britton, some also have associated research notes. All are typescript drafts, unless otherwise noted.

Includes:
Article, Untitled with handwritten note: 'From a Transcript of Tape - James Britton '65', [1965]
Article, 'Reading and Writing Poetry', n.d.
Article, 'Speaking of Drama', n.d.
Article, 'Function Categories: Defining what we Mean by 'Function'', 1p, 18 Feb 1969
Article, 'What's the Use?: A Schematic Account of Language Functions' (with associated articles and reports by others, and a contextual note from R. Arnold), 1972, all regarding the work of the Committee on Inquiry into the Reading and Use of English. (restricted)
Booklet, 'Schools and the Mother Tongue' (reprinted from Ideas, No. 24, Jan 1973), [1973]
Article, Untitled draft with some annotations, 1974
Article, 'The Postgraduate Training Year', n.d.
Article, 'Language Out of School', 1976
Article, 'Context, Text, Message and Forms of Discourse', 1977
Article, 'Forward to Talking, Writing and Learning 8-13', 1977
Article, 'Talking' (two copies, with handwritten notes), 1977
Article, 'I'm Listening', 31 Jan 1977
Article, 'Foreword', 1977-1978
Article, 'The Composing Processes and the Functions of Writing', 1978,
Article, 'Learning to Use Language in Two Modes', 1979
Article, 'Notes on a Working Hypothesis about Writing', 1979
Article, 'Language in the British Primary School', 1979
Article, 'A Reader's Expectations', Mar 1979
Newsletter, 'The National Writing Project: Network Newsletter' by James Britton, May 1979
Book Review, 'The Reform of Teacher Education in the United Kingdom by James Lynch', Oct 1979
Article, 'Shaping at the Point of Utterance' (with contextual note from Gordon [Pradl?]), Nov 1979
Article, 'A Context for Reading', n.d.

Several articles relate to the Writing Research Projects (archive held at IOE RefNo WRI)
Extent2 folders
AccessStatusPartially Open
AccessConditionsAvailable subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Registration Form. Some papers are restricted under data protection legislation.
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