Writing workshop for Term 3 - Week by week programme

Mon 18th April to Fri 22nd April
Intended Audience
A level examiner‘s expectations
What is "Standard Written English"?
Making A level style your style

Mon 25th April To Fri 30th April
Prewriting
Help, I don’t know where to begin?
Getting ideas, planning, thesis statement

Tues 3rd May To Fri 6th May (Labour day holiday)
Paragraph structure
Topic sentence improvement
Transitions between paragraphs

Mon 9th May To Fri 13th May
Introductions and conclusions
Attention grabbers
Effective summaries

Tues 17th May To Fri 20th May (Whitsun holiday on Monday)
Academic writing style (1)
• Concision
• Complexity
• Cutting out fillers and cliches

Mon 23rd May To Fri 27th May
Academic writing style (2)• Parallelism
• Tentative –v- certain
• Using strong active verbs
• Eliminating the passive

Mon 30th May To Fri 3rd June
Creole interference
Does a Vincentian dialect affect written English?
The arguments
The solutions

Mon 6th June To Fri 10th June
Rewriting, editing, proofreading
Good, better, best – rewriting
Error checking techniques

Mon 13th June To Fri 17th June
Using sources
How to use other people’s ideas
The vocabulary of references