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Essay writing: style and substance

Nov 17, 2015 | Category: English
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.George Eliot As with most subjects, the step up from GCSE to A level English literature is tough. You can...
#English literature #nominalisation #Stephen Pinker

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

Teaching sequence for developing independence Stage 2: Model

Jun 30, 2013 | Category: English
Over the past few years I've thought a lot about how and what we should teach. My journey has been long and painful. I used to evangelically promote the teaching of transferable '21st century skills'...
#Lee Donaghy #modelling #Bryan Reade #deconstruction #Marcus Sedgwick #nominalisation #Simon Scarrow

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