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When should we stop making students redraft work?

Sep 14, 2015 | Category: writing
I managed to catch a bit of #Engchatuk today and was interested to see that the discussion was on how to get students to redraft their work. Redrafting is something I advocate when travelling round di...
#proofreading #drafting

Reactions to #WrongBook

Jul 04, 2015 | Category: writing
In addition to the pre-publication reviews from some of the most eminent thinkers in education and psychology such as professors Dylan Wiliam, Robert Bjork, Daniel Willingham and Robert Coe, some 'rea...
#WrongBook

Black space: improving writing by increasing lexical density

Dec 09, 2013 | Category: writing
Style ... is not—can never be—extraneous Ornament... ‘Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and delete it before sending your manusc...
#Slow Writing #nominalisation #EB Strunk #Kerry Pulleyn #lexical density #Stephen King

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