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What does improve children's writing?

Dec 01, 2017 | Category: writing

In my last post I discussed evidence that suggests grammar teaching does not lead to an improvement in children's writing. Although it seems implausible that grammar teaching would not be positively c...

#grammar #Slow Writing #Greg Ashman

Do all good ideas need to be researched?

May 10, 2015 | Category: research

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about ‘and’.Arthur Stanley Eddington After my presentation on Slow...

#Slow Writing #researchED

Slow Writing eBook - contributions wanted

Jul 31, 2014 | Category: Featured

Hey all!In a flush of Twitter inspired enthusiasm, @redgirob, @bryngoodman and I have come up with a crazy idea. What if we put together a crowd sourced, not for profit eBook detailing the various use...

#Slow Writing

Revisiting Slow Writing - how slowing writing might speed up thinking

Jun 19, 2014 | Category: literacy

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.Shakespeare It's been a while since I first wrote about Slow Writing and in that time it's rather taken on a life of its own. Today I had the interesting e...

#Slow Writing #The Secret of Literacy

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

The art of beautifully crafted sentences

Oct 17, 2013 | Category: English

I came across this post on Doug Lemov's blog earlier today and instantly decided to rewrite my Year 8 lesson to make use of the ideas within.The idea is, like all good ideas, a very simple one: that p...

#Slow Writing #Doug Lemov

How to get students to value writing

Dec 31, 2012 | Category: literacy

Sir, do we have to write in sentences? Yes, you bloody well do!Students do a lot of writing at school but, bless me, most of it's turgid stuff. In practically every lesson they're required to scribble...

#Darren Mead #Slow Writing #proof-reading

Slow Writing: how slowing down can improve your writing

May 12, 2012 | Category: English

NB - my latest thinking on Slow Writing can be found here.Exam season is nearly upon us and English departments across the land will be gearing up to the Herculean labour of training students to churn...

#AQA #Slow Writing #writing