What is a writing voice?
A written voice is made of the words you use, the way you use them and the character they come together to create. Try this exercise to practice your written voice.
GCSE English doesn’t help
You’ve got a GCSE in English, you use English every day, so why are you struggling so much with writing your website content?
The before and after of edited writing
Encouraging children to recraft and be brave enough to make big change
Breaking the passive habit
There are five good reasons for using the passive, aside from those, using the active is by far the more preferable […]
Emails of complaint
In one of the writing courses, we’ve been dealing with email of complaint, a skill B2-level writers should be able […]
20 sentence patterns you can’t ignore
I’ve been working and researching sentences almost daily, now, for over a year. Yes I’m a word-nerd, but there you […]
Extraposition and inversion: glam-sounding simple things
Sentence patterns are very predictable in English, and, whether you’re a native-speaker or not, it’s easy to get into a […]
Make words work
Placing emphasis on the right idea and right word in a sentence is an art. In the UK this isn’t […]
Bibliography and useful resources for sentences and writing
Useful resources Vince (2009) Advanced Language Practice pp 54 – 91 Fish, S (2011) How to Write a Sentence and How to […]
Sentence structures: a little trick
It’s all well and good knowing stand-alone sentences, but sentences don’t often hang around on their own, do they? My […]