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Submissions Contributions for The Use of English should be sent to us by email: hello@englishassociation.ac.uk.   Guidelines: It helps the editor greatly in the preparation of manuscripts for the printer if authors adhere to a few ground rules. Articles and reviews should keep to the following conventions: Manuscripts should be typed and submitted as an…

Use of English 69.1 Autumn 2017

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Edited by Dr Thomas Day Reviews Editor Dr Kathy Mair Articles Editorial: Thomas Day ‘The Mother Tongue of the Human Race’: Entrenched conceptions of poetry and their resonances in English education: Daniel Xerri Short Measures: taking the long view of brief poems: Adrian Barlow The Sonnet and the Student in the World: Josie Billington Ever…

Use of English 69.2 Spring 2018

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Edited by Jane Campion Articles Editorial: Jane Campion Looking back on the GCSE English Language: Carol Atherton The 2015 English Literature GCSE: a welcome return to rigour or just plain dull?: Jenny Stevens The Impact of Marking Reform: Yvonne Williams “Focus on what matters”: The new GCSEs – PGCE student teachers and their mentors discuss…

Use of English 69.3 Summer 2018

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Edited by Jane Campion   Articles Editorial: Jane Campion ‘Real English’ versus ‘Exam English’ – the Case for Authentic Experience of the Subject: Barbara Bleiman Beginning Paradise Lost: Martin Dodsworth Mrs Dalloway and the Modernist Movement: Paul Dean Interleaving and Spacing within English: Michael Guard and Luke Crawford Creative Writing Workshops: A Main Course: Peter Carpenter ‘Ozymandias’…

The Use of English – Contents Archive

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Volume 54 No. 3 Summer 2003 Editorial: the continued pursuit of criticality, Andrew Stables Making Sense of Victorian Endings: Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Middlemarch , Robert Douglas-Fairhurst From the Picture to the Diagram: Literacy and Art of English Teaching, Mark A. Pike Making Meanings from Macbeth: Building Critical Perspectives into the Study of Shakespeare…

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Published three times per year, Use of English is our journal for teachers, including trainee teachers, of secondary English. It brings together vigorous, independent comment on theory, policy and practice with a uniquely substantial and extensive section of reviews – reviews of important books on the teaching of the subject, of literary criticism and of anthologies and editions.

The Use of English is available either via a membership of the English Association, or one off copies can also be purchased.

Committee Meetings & Calendar

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Committee meetings and other significant EA events 2019 January 17 Fellowship Committee, 1.00, London 18 English in the World: From the Outside February 12 Finance Committee, 12.00, London 14 Secondary Committee, 5.00 (UWE, Bristol) March 11 Primary Education Committee, 4.30, London 13 Board of Trustees 2.30, Leicester 28 Higher Education Committee, 2.00 May 8 16…

Literature and ageing 2020, essays and studies, The English Association

Essays & Studies   

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Essays & Studies is a series of annual, themed volumes, edited each year by a distinguished academic. It is published on behalf of the Association by D.S. Brewer, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer. Universities and people studying, working or with an interest in higher education, including researchers, may find this publication particularly useful.

Essays & Studies is available either via a membership of The English Association, or one off copies can also be purchased.