The Best Writing Tip: You Are the God of an A4 Piece of Paper
BY TESS GADD ‘What?’ my lecturer asked me in her I-only-baby-my-children-and-not-my-students voice. She looked up from her laptop, glasses holding on to the edge of her nose for dear life. ‘I want to make this change, but I’m scared it won’t work out. What do you think? Would I get worse marks if I did […]
The Best Writing Tip: All Your Words Aren’t Brilliant
BY REV DR JILL RICHARDSON I got my first World Religions paper returned with an ‘A’ slashed across the top. This should have elicited joy in a student at a high-level university, but I gave it side-eye. The content had baffled me, so how could I have written a paper proving I’d understood what I […]
The Best Writing Tip: Don’t Write What You Know
BY KIRSTY MACDOUGALL ‘Write what you know, Kirsty.’ This advice stayed with me for well over a decade. At 17, I wrote an essay about an alcoholic. As you can imagine, my English teacher was less than impressed. In her defence, she was probably right in that context. But is it great advice in every […]