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Purposeful Writing The Wadeye Workshop and Its Basis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Paul Black
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Just as the test of the pudding is in the eating, the test of a piece of writing is how well it accomplishes the purpose for which it was written. If a story is written to entertain, then it is well written just to the extent it does this. On the other hand, we wouldn’t expect a dictionary to be entertaining: it’s purpose is to let us look up information about words. There are a wide variety of purposes writing can serve, and these give rise to different genres of writing.

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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , July 1991 , pp. 23 - 38
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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