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What is a writing voice?

December 16, 2019November 21, 2019 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on 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.

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Plan Your Writing

November 25, 2019November 21, 2019 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on 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,

Blog, Business/Formal Writing, Creative writing, Web Writing, Writing, Writing Resources

GCSE English doesn’t help

November 18, 2019November 18, 2019 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on 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?

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Five reasons to use the passive voice

March 1, 2019March 27, 2019 Lucy Cripps2 Comments on 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 […]

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Breaking the passive habit

February 2, 2019March 27, 2019 Lucy Cripps1 Comment on 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 […]

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Emails of complaint

January 23, 2015March 27, 2019 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on 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 […]

Blog, Business/Formal Writing, Language, Writing Resources complaint writing, compound-complex sentence, email of complaint, English grammar, how to complain, how to write a complaint

Trumpet blowing: classroom creative

August 16, 2013May 2, 2017 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on Trumpet blowing: classroom creative

Back in 2001, a wonderful website called TeachIt appeared. It pooled resources created by English teachers for teachers, so we […]

Blog, Writing, Writing Resources classroom teaching, English resources, grammar resources, speaking and listening resources, teachit, writing

Paper to digital: a year on (2013)

August 16, 2013May 2, 2017 Lucy Cripps1 Comment on 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 […]

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20 sentence patterns you can’t ignore

February 14, 2012May 1, 2017 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on 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 […]

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Extraposition and inversion: glam-sounding simple things

February 7, 2012May 2, 2017 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on 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 […]

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