Dr Jeremy Scott, Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language & Linguistics, will be giving a keynote address at the conference ‘Intergrating English’ to be held at Middlesex University on Friday 8 and Saturday 9 July 2016.

Integrating English is a project that aims to develop new ways of understanding English, particularly through integrating the study of language and literature, and to promote stylistics as a discipline, so as to improve English in education at all levels. The conference will cover key areas of the English Language and Literature Key Stage 5 syllabus and this year will also explore ways of adapting the tools and concepts covered and using them to support learning at Key Stage 4 and below.

Jeremy’s talk is entitled ‘Integrating Creative Writing and English Language’, and he will argue that an understanding of stylistics has a great deal to offer the creative writer, the discussion and suggestions for practice are not intended to relate only to creative writing in the classroom, but also to the act of creative writing ‘at the coalface’. He aims to reverse the usual stylistic paradigm of post-event textual analysis and to instil ‘stylistic awareness’ at the forefront of the writing mind: in the act of creative writing itself.

For details about the conference, please see the Integrating English webpage here: www.integratingenglish.com/#!conference-2016/gci7v