EVERY lesson has a reflection in the last 5 minutes. WHAT - SO WHAT - NOW WHAT?

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PAC-V Tables

Purpose, Audience, Context & Values. Learn how to go over these four elements of a text and write a brilliant essay.

NESA Writing Types

Informative | Persuasive | Discursive | Imaginative |

The Hamburger Thing

Learn a fool proof way to structure an essay's body paragraph, courtesty of Corey Mac from Newcastle.

The Greatest Fictional World Builders: Terry Pratchett | Writers WriteThis is the first in a series on the greatest fictional world builders and what they can teach you about writing fantasy. This is about Terry Pratchett.

Good Sentences Are Why We ReadNo one can agree on what a sentence is. The safest definition is typographic. A sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop—except that some start with quote marks, and some end…

Students say they are not getting the right training to find work: reportToday's young people will be disproportionately impacted by automation, which will affect entry-level jobs more than higher-level positions, ReachOut's chief executive Ashley deSilva says.

The Most Dangerous Writing AppThe Most Dangerous Writing App. If you stop typing, all progress will be lost. Now with over 500+ writing prompts to choose from.

Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing“If it sounds like writing … rewrite it.”

Courtesy: Imogen Hamer

KAV Cycles - How to Never Get Writer's Block and make your writing more appealing to more readers

Writing Prompts

How to Bore an Editor to Death — David Farland | Story DoctorMy Story Doctor offers daily doses of writing tips and online classes for writers of all levels. You might craft the next best-seller. Story Doctor David Farland has taught successful writers Stephenie Meyer, James Dashner, Brandon Sanderson, and more.

Longfield's Note: This applies to How to Bore a Teacher To Death also. Make it pop, people!

One Impossibility — David Farland | Story DoctorIf you write a novel set in the real world—whether it is historical or modern—you don’t have to worry so much about “creating” as “researching” your setting. But if you are writing science fiction or fantasy, you very often “create” a world from scratch. There are a couple of approaches that you can take to this.

17 of the Best Opening Lines in LiteratureThe opening sentence of a book can determine a lot of things (including whether or not you decide to keep going with said book). It's the author's first invitation into a world of their own

The psychology of world building - The WriterGabriela Pereira provides an ecological approach to world building in writing that will help stories come to life on the page.

Short form vs Long form content

The main difference between social and societal is that the adjective social can describe people, whereas the adjective societal cannot describe people.

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