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2 unusual facts about James Britton


James Britton

James H. Britton (1817–1900), mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Writing Across the Curriculum

This product-oriented, skills-focused paradigm of writing pedagogy began to change in the 1970s with the popularization of James Britton and colleagues’ expressivist school of composition, which said that students benefited from writing as a tool for self-expression and that focusing on technical correctness was damaging.



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