Britton's categories

Question 1

Expressive

Answer 1

• The first mode to develop because it resembles speech

- Uses the first person perspective and the content is usually based on personal preference

Question 2

Poetic

Answer 2

• Develops gradually, requiring skills in crafting and shaping language
• Encouraged early on as rhyme and rhythm and alliteration
• As well as descriptive devices
• Such as adjectives and smilies are common

Question 3

Transactional

Answer 3

• Develop last around secondary school age
• Once children have dissociated speech from writing
• In the style of academic essays
• More impersonal tone and style
• The third person is used to create a detached tone
• Formal sentence structures and graphological features are used to signpost sections and ideas and structures
• Tend to be more chronological