Tag: Teaching writing

How do you write an essay?

Jan 22, 2020

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Graeme Smith

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Writing essays is nearly always a painful process. And that’s aside from the fact that programmes of study that require essay writing don’t seem to deliver the same return on investment that they used to. The flip side is that learning to write is really a great way to learn how to think. This is…
Developing Writing Skills: Purpose and Audience

Jan 21, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Education resources, Embed literacy and numeracy, Improve teaching practice, Literacy and Numeracy, Low literacy levels, NCALNE, Resources, Uncategorized, Writing

Here’s a set of questions that I might use as a generic pre and post activity for a portion of my proposed Writing Workshop that I’ve been thinking about. I want to have various interchangeable parts that tutors can put together, so this is one attempt at constructing a set of questions that learners…