Literature of the Hart

Do you know how to use the cool colon? Or how to add a dash of semicolons to spice up your writing? Many students are looking for final improvements to develop their writing before their summer exams; many adults could enhance their writing with a few simple punctuation tips. As a teacher of English over many years I made an important discovery: learners can start using colons and semicolons quickly if these wonderful punctuation marks are taught in the right way. To help students remember how to use colons and semicolons, I use the phrases “explain and expand”, and “connect or contrast”: they are easy to remember; they help distinguish between semicolons and colons; they lay the foundations for connecting sentences in ever more fluent and stylish ways.   Using colons is not something to fear   :     they can seriously improve your writing.   Semicolons confuse some   ;    they liberate others!   Now you know how cool and ...

In my experience as an English teacher and tutor, many students do not understand the basic grammatical structures of sentences. So they make mistakes- and mistakes affect their grades. But you can learn different sentence types to improve your writing. If you read the following, you’ll see five different sentence types in use: Really?  Students write sentences all the time.  Many rely on simple sentence forms and this can make their writing unambitious.  Complex sentences, which require more exact punctuation, are rarely used.  Multiple complex sentences, which are really quite advanced sentence structures, are usually unheard of, but this means that students, who are quite capable of writing them, might not be accessing the highest grades.   You can find out more about how I help students develop their writing in my ebooks: Quest for the Jabberwock - Five Sentence Types (for ages 7-16) The Five Sentence Type Workbook (for ages 16+) But I'm No Good ...

Our latest ebook,  Quest for the Jabberwock , takes students on a journey, not just of creative writing, but of mastering five important sentence types:  simple sentences compound sentences complex sentences multiple complex sentences non-sentences. Building on the first  Hartland English Guide ,  Five Sentence Types ,  Quest for the Jabberwock  is designed to appeal to school pupils, both primary and secondary, who will enjoy creating each next step of the narrative and learning a different sentence type as they go. The other titles in the  Hartland English Guides  are:   A Dash of Punctuation But I’m no good at creative writing Five Sentence Types Quest for the Jabberwock  is available on Amazon, priced at only £4.99. Find the right  Hartland English Guide  for you  here !