Category Archives: AS Lang/Lit

BBC News – The rules of speech crime

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Ant Heald

via news.bbc.co.uk This article from the BBC News Magazine website highlights the issue of ‘political correctness’ (itself seen as a an increasingly pejorative term, especially in conjunction with its common collocation, ‘gone mad’). This is an important concept for both … Continue reading →

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Original / Creative Writing

Posted on January 18, 2009 by Ant Heald

If you’re looking for some inspiration for original writing, and want to see how the experts do it, this section of the Guardian website has a really interesting variety of writing in a range of styles, both poetry and prose. … Continue reading →

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The Rivals wiki – user permissions

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Ant Heald

I’ve upgraded all the Y12 Lang/Lit students to ‘writer’ status, so you should now see the ‘add page’ button. Sorry for the confusion over that: it’s one of the issues that crops up when you’ve used a number of similar … Continue reading →

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The Rivals

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Ant Heald

I’m glad to see that most of the Y12 Lang/Lit group have begun contributing to http://therivals.wetpaint.com. However, the contributions have all been ‘threads’ so far, rather than edits to the wiki itself, so we’re not building up the archive of … Continue reading →

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The Rivals Wiki

Posted on October 24, 2008 by Ant Heald

By now, if you’re in the AS Lang/Lit group, you should have received an invitation to sign up to the Wiki I’ve created for The Rivals. If you wish to use another email address rather than your school one, then … Continue reading →

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Cracking Grammar

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Ant Heald

It became clear in Friday’s Y12 Lang lesson that: having to do exercises on language concepts really helped to clarify your knowledge and understanding few of you had taken advantage of the resources I keep mentioning that will help you … Continue reading →

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