Britton - Types of writing 1975

• Focused on the purpose of writing as a whole and the necessary writing styles used to fulfill a specific purpose
• Expressive - 1st mode children learn 


  Resembles speech

  Enables children to explore own preferences and identity through writing

  Usually 1st person

  Content usually based on personal preference (diary or letter)
• Poetic -2nd mode children learn


  Developed gradually and is usually encouraged early on because of it's creativity

  Introduces idea of writing for an audience

  Adjectives and similes

  Rhyme, rhythm and Alliteration

  Introduces the idea of 'craft of writing'
• Transactional - Last mode children learn 


  Developed at secondary school age when speech is fully disassociated from writing

  Impersonal tone (essays)

  3rd person used for detached tone

  Formal sentence structures and graphological features used to sign post ideas

  Ideas structured chronologically

  Seperate identity from their writing