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Magic Words: Street
In this series I’ve looked at words with generally positive connotations, words like international, professional, signature and tactical. Now, let’s…
Nov 5
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Robert Buckmaster
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October 2025
Summaries and Commentaries
Writing summaries of texts increases learner engagement with texts, and writing commentaries helps develop our learners’ critical thinking skills.
Oct 16
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Robert Buckmaster
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August 2025
Metaphors
In 1980 George Lakoff and Mark Johnson published Metaphors We Live By, which quickly became a classic in linguistics and philosophy.
Aug 19
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Robert Buckmaster
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The English Ideas Project Substack News
I hope you have been having a great summer (or winter).
Aug 13
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Robert Buckmaster
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June 2025
Summer Break
As summer is here in the northern hemisphere I will be taking a break from posting essays here in order to work on two important projects and to have…
Jun 7
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Robert Buckmaster
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May 2025
An AI Review
Since I started this Substack I have commented quite frequently on the state of AI.
May 31
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Robert Buckmaster
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Can we Use AI to write multiple choice questions and to grade writing?
AI is really being forced on us.
May 19
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Robert Buckmaster
April 2025
A UTWR Writing Task
Writing tasks are always tricky because of issues like the time required, and the fact that if we set writing as homework, many students will not take…
Apr 30
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Robert Buckmaster
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We Will Always Have Paris
But which Paris?
Apr 17
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Robert Buckmaster
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Essays Visualised
Often, even though we are primarily concerned with language here, it can be useful to visualize things.
Apr 7
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Robert Buckmaster
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Thoughts on Notes and Other Matters
Marcus Tullius Tiro was Marcus Tullius Cicero's secretary.
Apr 1
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Robert Buckmaster
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March 2025
Sentence-Initial Cohesive Devices and Their Role in Writing
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Mar 24
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Robert Buckmaster
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