How children learn about writing

Evaluation and Essay
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My chosen genre for my piece of writing was a diary of my two week holiday in Corfu – Greece; I detailed my perceptions and experiences for each day throughout my vacation. The decision to create this form of written work was not reached easily. I was daunted by the fact that I was required to write a written piece of any genre without any specifications. I have never been the creative type and thus the notion of creating a fictional piece was out of the question. I tried to concentrate on what I knew about writing, but I had writer’s block, I was unable to conjure up any ideas. Throughout my academic career I have written many essays but the forum for my writing had always had a starting point – a question or idea at least. I made the decision that I needed to write about something of which I had experience of; Parker (1993) argues that when one has some concrete notion or personal experience of a topic a written piece is more easily produced. ...