Category: Writing frame
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How Can I Learn To Write Better?
How do you teach yourself to write better? The rules aren’t hard but you don’t get better without actually writing. Here’s my take: Rule #1: Good writing is a kind of fitness… so try and think of it as such This means that you need to build your writing muscles in the same way that…
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Niho Taniwha – An Adaptable 9-Part Framework for Promoting Strength and Resilience in Education
Introducing niho taniwha – The teeth of the taniwha This is an idea for discussion. I’ve been thinking about this for a while now: What’s a model that allows us to bring together all the things that we know and do in education including the infrastructure tools and support mechanisms? Here’s a possible answer above.…
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How to teach academic writing in 160 pages or less…
Here’s another thing that I’ve been reluctant to throw out until now… Twenty years ago I took over coordinating an academic writing course for speakers of English as a second language at the university where I had just been employed. The academic writing course they had was OK, but it was kind of hard to…
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How I accidentally became a published writer in 1998 by authoring a book filled with blank pages
Four score and seven years ago in 1998, I became a published author. It was an accident and I didn’t mean to. The published book was filled with (mostly) blank pages. That’s the cover up above. I found a copy yesterday because I have this banana box in my office that I’ve been trying to…
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How do you write an essay? AKA The Pragmatist’s Guide to Essay Writing
How do you write an essay? Find out how to write better essays at university and college. Get better grades by writing better essays.
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How Do I Improve my Writing Online? Use Grammarly
Awhile ago, I wrote about how I was using Hemingway App to improve the quality of my writing. I don’t use it for everything, but still like to use it when I need to sit down and write something that is clear and concise. Recently, I signed up for another product. It’s similar but different……
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Developing a Writing Frame For Report Writing
A while back I redeveloped the writing frame we use to teach people how to write their report for the first part of our course. If you want a better copy of this to print out, there is a PDF version you can download here. I contextualised the writing frame above to the content that we…
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How Can I Improve My Writing? Use the Hemingway App
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How can you improve your writing? What are some great online tools you can use to improve your writing? Use the Hemingway App…!