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University students & the problem of writing essays7 comments

Sandy Crux wrote 5 days ago: How to write an essay! It is obvious, given the complaints in this column that university professors … more →

Tags: Essay Writing, Post Secondary, Flowers & Hayes, writing an essay

Characteristics of Written Language

Ian Blood wrote 3 weeks ago: Teaching by Principles (Brown, 2007) includes an interesting discussion of the characteristics of wr … more →

Tags: Miscellaneous, characteristics of written language, Orthography, Speech, Vocabulary, writing

like a hedonist

benjaminchew110478 wrote 1 month ago: I don’t know about others, but I guess I am speaking for myself on this issue. The science of … more →

Tags: Musings on the English language, Artist, Benjamin Chew, English language, experience of language, Grammar, Hedonist, on writing, Oscar Wilde

Harold the Hard Working Man

tps10 wrote 1 month ago: It was a frosty Thursday morning in the middle of winter. Snow fell softly onto an old house by a sn … more →

Tags: Creative, Narrative

A Matter of Life or Death

tps10 wrote 1 month ago: It was a hot summer’s morning, as the sun had started to wake up. Here, Moana was putting on a tatty … more →

Tags: Maori, moa

Centurion Gleatues

tps10 wrote 1 month ago: All you could hear was “aagh” and “I’m dying” as centurion Gleateus and his crew were gaining ground … more →

Tags: centurian, Roman

Bert the Skateboarding Elephant

tps10 wrote 1 month ago: Bright, azure eyes stared through the steel bars as a long, grey trunk stretched through the border … more →

Tags: Elephant, Skateboarding, Zoo

Jeff the Giraffe

tps10 wrote 1 month ago: The smell of the zoo air awoke Jeff with a smile spreading across his freckly face. He opened one sl … more →

Tags: Giraffe, escape

The Peaceful Musician

tps10 wrote 1 month ago: Peaceful music flooded the air, swirling around the audience. Ladek was playing his musical instrume … more →

Tags: ~Musician~

The Blood Covered Sword

tps10 wrote 1 month ago: Centuries ago before your great, great Granddad’s great, great granddad’s   Ancestors were born. Mon … more →

Tags: Sword, fight, Monk, Tibetian

The Great Journey

tps10 wrote 1 month ago: Shikka always wanted to travel the world and as she sat in the little wooden internet café in Sri La … more →

Tags: Journey, Travel, Dreams

The Mystery

tps10 wrote 1 month ago: The sky was as black as coal, clouds swung furiously in the night sky as rain poured heavily onto th … more →

Tags: ~Musician~, Mystery

Ashley Armstrong & the Sandy Murder

tps10 wrote 1 month ago: The year was 1983. It was a warm sunny day down at Piha Beach as Ashley sculpting a sand sculptor of … more →

Tags: Sandcastles, Seaside

Chinese writing.

yamanterzo wrote 2 months ago: One of the ancient languages (around 4,000 bc) which survived to our date is considered as the Chine … more →

Tags: Chinese, Phonetic, ancient writing, writing

Lights, Camera, Action...

tps10 wrote 3 months ago: Lights, Camera, Action… Deadly lights shinning brightly on the black wooden stage.  Music mumb … more →

Tags: Reflection, Personal recount, Creative, dancing

Mercy Shot 1 comment

ketong wrote 3 months ago: The dream starts with me in a sort of a hostel. I have 3 cloths and one of them is my Germany footba … more →

Tags: nested structure, Genres, Dejavu, locale, familiar place, COLOR, Vivid Color, Point Of View, 1st person

Persuasive Argument and Speeches Writing6 comments

tps10 wrote 4 months ago: The children in Room 10 have been developing their persuasive writing skills.  Each student has writ … more →

Tags: Political, Speeches, Oral Language

The Importance Of Telling Stories

pittsburghflashfictiongazette wrote 5 months ago: Be proud that you are a fiction writer no matter what your level of ability.  Fiction has been with … more →

Tags: Commentaries, writing, Articles, Life, great flash fiction, Community, Home, generation, human

Going to Glen Eden Intermediate4 comments

tps10 wrote 5 months ago: Waiting excitedly Room10 and half of Room9 stood at the drop off zone outside Titirangi school chatt … more →

Tags: Intermediate, Reflection, Memories, Positive experiences, Personal recount


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