SCHOOLS

 Schools, however, are preoccupied with meeting the formulaic requirements of NAPLAN, recently exposed and critiqued by a series of significant reports (see, for example, McGaw et al, 2020 and Perelman, 2018) and research projects (Gannon, 2019; McKnight, 2020). Students are actually being trained to write more like machines that can only follow rules. School writing is becoming more and more limited to formulas like TEEL (Topic, Evidence, Elaboration, Link) and the five-paragraph essay (introduction, three body paragraphs and conclusion), which serve to shut down the development of more sophisticated and sustained writing skills and an understanding of the writing process.