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Creative Writing Under Pressure

presentationlinkWriting for exams requires a unique blend of skills:

  • Time Management
  • Quick Planning Skills
  • Understanding of the exam format
  • Creativity under pressure

This presentation focussed on two types of writing, Argumentative and Discursive and went through the following steps to help students build writing skills.

Argumentative assignments

1. Forming opinions and then building on them
2. Order of an argumentative assignment
3. Strong conclusions
4. Building an argument with ideas and examples
5. Essential vocabulary
6. Quick planning method

Discursive Essays

1. Why you need to do them
2. Rules of formal essays
3. Order of a discursive essay
4. Weighing an argument
5. Planning method
6. How to ACE it.

Online Presentation

Creative Writing Under Pressure (272KB PDF)
This presentation was first presented in Yangon in September 2006

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The Royal Literary Fund
Three excellent writing guides for students in higher education.

Bogglesworld Writing Skills
A very clean and simple set of resources for writers of all ages.

TTMS
Excellent guide for writing

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