“Can’t write, won’t write – and you can’t make me” – discuss.

Building on Neil’s workshops and webinars around developing narrative and fiction, this presentation uses the same strategies to model ways to develop discussion/discursive writing and persuasion with our reluctant writers. As ever, the strategies are firmly based on the psychology of learning and, in particular, on multi-sensory ways to defeat the “forgetting curve”, something which is reported to limit the effectiveness of popular whole class extended writing approaches for students with issues around working memory and speed of processing.

Presented by Neil MacKay