As of last September I am not only a teacher but a fully-signed up, fifty-nine-year-old, doctoral student under the supervision of Lily Robert-Foley. On the 13th January 2025 a new remote course based on writing language memoirs opens for second-year undergraduates at Paul Valéry University. Here is the official résumé of the thesis. The working…
Until the 30th November 2022 free online writing tools could be used to check and to edit writing but were largely incapable of generating under-graduate level essays, creative texts, synthesis etc. That all changed with the launch of Chat GPT and teachers have been scrambling to adjust ever since. Whether we welcome it with excitement…
Story, Plot and Structure. According to Nabokov the first story was not when a little boy runs down the mountain crying ‘Wolf’ with a wolf chasing him but when he runs down mountain crying ‘wolf’ and there is no wolf there. Check out the short video capsule to help you think about stories and structure…
For all blocked creative writing students. Both physically and metaphorically. The text to be studied is an extract from Zora Neale Houston’s, Their Eyes Were Watching God “It was a spring afternoon in West Florida. Janie had spent most of the day under a blossoming pear tree in the back-yard. She had been spending every…
My experience with online learning began about 26 years ago as a recently divorced, mother-of-three (in those days), with the CNED (Centre national d’enseignement à distance). My aim was to, once the kids had gone to bed, prepare for the French competitive teaching exam. Back in the days before online learning platforms, this entailed receiving…