Creative Writing 有创意的写作

This article is dedicated to school children currently studying online at homes around the world. If you are their parents, please read on with them and kindly encourage them to write creative stories for postings here or for postings to www.storystar.com. http://www.u-write-read.com/. https://www.storystar.com. To write a piece of creative essay, we need to plan out our topic and the sequence of our paragraphs, leading to our conclusion. Let us start with a topic. Just the other day, one of my tutees talked about a topic that we, as parents, seldom heard of. I got him to spell the topic out […]

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Tell Your Story Now 现在,告诉我你的故事吧

If you are a child of any age, tell us your story by answering this question “What are you doing today?” You can draw out your answer if you like. If you are a parent, why not write on a story about one of your young children and share your experience with your readers. If you are a grandparent, invent a story basing on your life experience and share this with your family members. And, if you like, share your story with others living elsewhere using social media. You may want to read the stories of other people’s before you […]

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Persuasive Writing 有说服力的写作

Before we start writing, we need to plan the essay. Reflect on the title and then plan the introductory paragraph, the two or three ‘body’ paragraphs, and the concluding paragraph. We follow the AIDA plan. A is for Arousing the readers’ ATTENTION. I is for getting the readers’ INTEREST. D is for getting the readers’ Desire to read more, and the second A stands for ACTION, calling readers to act. The starting sentence of the introduction needs to surprise the readers, giving them an idea that they need to continue reading. It may be a question like “Can Cranes Fly?” […]

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