Writing

I've always written on aspects of English teaching for the Times Education Supplement, (TES), for whom I also write book reviews. I've written academic pieces for journals like English in Education and The Use of English. Increasingly I write for other publications too on various topics. In 1995 I won the arts critic category of the Independent on Sunday's "New Writers" contest with a cheap swipe at Delia Smith which won me a fax machine. St Delia: I ask your forgiveness. I wrote a piece about radio djs for the Independent and I have also written about whole-school literacy for the Guardian. You can see all of these in the Features section.

The Barton Writing Archive ...

To see a range of my articles on English, literacy and grammar, see here

To see more general 'features' writing, see here

To see some of the reviews I have written, mostly for the Times Education Supplement, see here

To see samples of the range of articles I have written, see here

Recent pieces for Managing Schools Today and the Teachit website are starting to be included on the Features page.

Barton on grammar ...

For three years Professor Dick Hudson and I wrote a weekly "Writer's Toolkit". Here's a selection. For the most up-to-date collection of these articles (grouped by publication date), see his website

These pages were updated in March 2006.

Writer's Toolkit articles (with Dick Hudson):

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