Writer’s Fortnight Day 6: Op – Ed : Text Type Conventions

An Op-Ed article is a completely opinion-based persuasive essay, that uses facts that back their argument. Discussions in an op-ed have a tendency to be controversial but hopefully not misleading, according to our class definition. It should be a polyvocal text,...

Writer’s Fortnight Day 2: Human Library Session 2

Special guest: When will the world listen to young people? Stories from the front line of human rights advocacy *note: this post was posted on 07/02/20 as it was copied from my post with Human Library session three to make it a separate post From this presentation, I...

Writer’s Fortnight Day Three: Human Library Session 4

Special Guest: Life as a criminal psychologist: conversations with murderers and rapists *note: this post was posted on 07/02/20 as it was copied from my post with Human Library session three to make it a separate post Appearances are so deceiving. This was probably...

Hanna Alkaf – Making Monsters

Above are my notes from Ms Alkaf’s talk: Making Monsters My Reflection This talk taught me a lot about the technical side of writing, how to incorporate description and detail into my stories to invoke emotion. And from Ms Alkaf’s talk, I learned something...