Author: Alison

Blogging and Forums

Blogging and Forums

Thanks for all your replies last week. Am still reading theoretical papers concerning blogging in the university context and have a meeting with our Moodle expert on Thursday to see just what possibilities are open to our students via our on-line learning platform (ENT – Environnement Numérique de Travail) Annick Rivens Mompean makes the difference…

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Teaching and Writing

Teaching and Writing

Hello there, I am starting this blog as part of my reflexion concerning the teaching of English as a foreign language and creative writing. I teach English to undergraduates and graduates who are specialists of disciplines other than English (ie who are not reading English) at the University of Paul-Valéry in Montpellier. In the French…

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Shuffled

Shuffled

“Soft clicks. Low chatter. The flutter of cards and banknotes. The clunk of coin. The moiré sibilance of play…” “A taut, pacy read…” – Amazon review “I knew nothing about the casino world and I found it fascinating, the author obviously knows her stuff…The writing itself is vibrant and certainly packs a punch. It doesn’t…

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The Day A Heart Shifted

The Day A Heart Shifted

The Day A Heart Shifted won the First Prize in the first New Sentinel Annual Short Story Competition which took place in 2012. It was described by the judge David Caddy in the following terms: “It has a formidably strong narrative force and arc. The first person narrative filters in formation as the story line…

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