In ‘How to Write an Edu-book – Part 1‘, I had the huge pleasure of sharing with everyone the approaches to writing an edu-book from two of the best edu-book …
How to Write an Edu-book – Part 1
I often hear the comment “I don’t know how you write books and do the day job“. And well, I usually agree and stumble over some comments about being very …
Write like J. K. Rowling (as easy as 1-2-3)
The saying goes that everybody has a novel inside them. Now, unless we are diagnosing an unfortunate epidemic that involves a misuse of pulp fiction, it indicates a very common …
The Green Eggs and Ham Hypothosis
Sometimes a research study comes along and confirms what you suspected all along. The ‘Green Eggs and Ham Hypothesis‘ does just that trick for me. Now, ‘Green Eggs and Ham‘ …
Teaching Writing Isn’t Just for English Teachers
(Image credit: Jonathan Kim – https://www.flickr.com/photos/jkim1/452830868) If a student can’t write, all eyes turn to the English department. Whether it is a brief in an Art lesson or a write up …
Concise and Precise Micro-writing
After over a decade of teaching English I am still finding new approaches and understanding more about how students learn to write. In the last year or so, my thinking …
Teacher Blogging
Blogging reviews of the year have been written; a new year is already rolling and a new school term beckons. It is a time for an end to excess food, …
Thank you
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” G. K. Chesterton This post is a small but tenderly felt …
Why Write A Blog?
“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.” Anthony Trollope I have just received my congratulations from WordPress on the first …
Cracking the Academic Code
‘I speak therefore I am’ Ten years ago I moved from my home in Liverpool to become a teacher in York. I went to the Liverpool University so my accent, …
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