Article writing for IGCSE ESL
One of the first text types ESL student have to master is an article. The tasks are usually very straightforward; they deal with the daily-life topics and...
What if we’ve been teaching essay writing all wrong?
One of the courses I teach is English General paper (Cambridge curriculum). The main point of the course is to provide our students with the skills to...
Fighting the word count
Sooner or later each person in the academic community faces the word count restrictions. And almost always that number would seem to be significantly smaller than a...
Descriptive writing and our senses.
Descriptions may be hard to deal with but they are enriching the writing so much that ignoring them is a crime against the reader’s perception and style....
How to assess writing (if all other systems seem to fail)
FToday I have finished reading a great book “Genre, Text, Grammar: Technologies for Teaching and Assessing Writing” written by Megan Watkins and Peter Knapp (2005). It suggests a very...