Peter Thomas runs residential writing courses for talented children in Oxfordshire. He finds, even among pupils of equally high linguistic ability, a significant gap between the writing performance of boys and girls. Recognising the strengths and limits of this gender difference has implications for the teaching and assessing of children's writing.
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“On Literacy and Gender” Janet White in Knowledge about Language—the LINC Reader ed. Carter, Hodder & Stoughton, 1990.
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You Just Don't Understand—Men and women in conversation. Deborah Tannen, Virago, 1991.
