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.
Plan Your Writing
On my write your own website course, we use this template as a starting point for longer-form writing, say blogs, case studies and even newsletters,
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?
Five reasons to use the passive voice
Six positives if you count annoying any English teacher who’s told you to only write in the active voice. Writing […]
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 […]
Trumpet blowing: classroom creative
Back in 2001, a wonderful website called TeachIt appeared. It pooled resources created by English teachers for teachers, so we […]
Paper to digital: a year on (2013)
I’ve just got back from shopping for my son’s mountain of school things for the beginning of term. And one of those […]
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 […]