Your grades have arrived, and the English ones didn’t go well. Maybe it doesn’t mean much – you’ve already got into the course you want, but it’s still disappointing. Or maybe there are consequences – you haven’t made it into the next stage of your chosen...
Working with post-graduate students on their academic writing skills usually begins with a conversation about one of two things: getting the academic style right, and/or constructing an argument....
Do you feel stressed by reports? Anxious about sounding professional, or worried about making technical concepts accessible to your reader? Read on for some tips about report writing. You’ve got the content sorted, the overall structure in place – you might even have a template. It’s the sentence-by-sentence...
People connect with stories. Businesses that utilise this fact prosper, particularly when their stories resonate with customers’ values....
I love working with academic writers. They’re intelligent, self-motivated and focused on achieving good results. However, many haven’t had any teaching of writing since in their mid-teens....
There are two ways of writing. One is with a destination in mind – you’re writing for a specific purpose – an article, a report, an assessment. ...
I’m extremely shortsighted. In fact, if I put my glasses somewhere slightly different at night, I can’t find them in the morning. In medieval times, I would have just got by seeing the world as a vague blur – distinguishing people by their shape and sound....
[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] Writing is something you’ve always wanted to do, but haven’t. It’s so easy to put other things first – the kids, work, volunteering, even craft. You’re not entirely sure what’s stopping you from making the commitment, or if those barriers...
Writing for school and then tertiary institutions can be reductive: you’re pushed into a formal, distanced voice. It’s taken me years to undo that training, so that when I need to, I can sound more like myself on the page....
I’m lucky – I come from a family of people who liked to write. People who didn’t have a lot of formal education, but who kept diaries and wrote memoirs. As a consequence, I have the words of great uncles, grandmothers and my mother. These have...
