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?
Content production … and it’s only Wednesday
I don’t often audit the content production I get through in a week, so this was quite an eye opener.
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 […]
How to shape your argument
It would be fair to say there is more political awareness these days. On both sides of all fences, people […]
What does your font say about you?
I’ve just read this rather entertaining piece in the Guardian about Comic Sans, the eternally hated font, and it got […]
When writing is your north, your south, your east, your west
Recently I was asked why I write. For some reason it annoyed me! This is my slightly ranty response explaining […]
Trumpet blowing: classroom creative
Back in 2001, a wonderful website called TeachIt appeared. It pooled resources created by English teachers for teachers, so we […]