Susan Hynds

Examines how people develop their reading and writing skills during adolescence and adulthood. This collection is based on the premise that four basic stances (orientations) underlie the discourse practices: social, textual, institutional, and field. These four stances form the organizing rubric for

Since 1996, Elspeth Thompson has chronicled the successes and disasters that beset her tiny London garden and her allotment in a regular column in the Sunday Telegraph. In this second instalment of columns, Elspeth charts the trials of gardening in the country at weekends, having taken on a potter's cottage in Winchelsea, East Sussex, the development of her allotment and the onggoing joys of ther itny back garden in Brixton.