The second draft
...The second draft is a good time to use tutor feedback from your most recent essays. Were there any comments that indicated why you lost marks? If there is a...
Business-style reports
...the problem. Let’s use the P&O cruise question as an example. To complete the objectives, you need to start by considering all the relevant factors: competition, markets, destinations, customer age-groups...
Presentations
...the spot. Make eye contact with your audience. Most communication isn’t verbal and good non-verbal communication makes your verbal communication more effective. And, finally, smile. Look as if you are...
I find writing very slow – what can I do?
...block and then come up with a list of suggestions for loosening the block. Here’s the sort of thing they usually come up with: make writing a more habitual process;...
What are the issues if English is my second language?
...linear progression.” “Problems come from authors using English as a second language. They quite often get the English more or less right but the authors have not checked it well...
Vanity Fair
...to the sound of authors reading from, or opining on their works. Afterwards come the questions. ‘Do you ever write Harry Potter?’ ‘Are you posh?’ ‘Have you found Jesus?’ These...
Robert Hudson
Robert Hudson is an award-winning dramatist, novelist and comedy writer. He has co-written musicals about Russian propaganda, AI and Climate Change, and John Maynard Keynes for BBC Radio as well...
The Literary Midwife
...her real name of Anna Haycraft, fiction editor at Duckworth, the respected publishing company owned by her husband, Colin. Her reputation was that of a literary midwife, nursing novelists as...
Obit
...were sent to work out their declining years. As in Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop, the obits competed with Nature Notes as the dustiest corner of a Fleet Street building. The obituaries...
When Poetry Spends the Night
...were believed to have parted company at the birth of modernism; the prestige of that Johnny-Come-Lately, the novel, grew and grew. I often come across students who feel that in...