How To Improve Transactional Writing?

by Michael Hartland

GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE requires students to produce a piece of transactional writing, like an article, blog, speech or letter.

It’s a deceptively difficult task to do well, and I have learnt as an English tutor that many students do not have a process to follow.  Many don’t even plan.

I’ve developed a very clear way to structure this kind of writing by planning arguments and counter arguments.  Usually students’ writing improves immediately once they grasp this structured approach.

The next level is then to build in different sentence types: starting each paragraph with a topic sentence (simple sentence) and including more complex forms including colons and semicolons to develop detail.

Our ebooks give practical examples about how to do this, and the material in them are used in our lessons - to great effect!

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