por Ersun Warncke | Feb 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
Tackling the student writer’s biggest challenge I am developing a modular essay-writing course for student writers, working title: Essay Accelerator.Over years of teaching, I’ve found students from all backgrounds struggle with understanding what an academic...
por Ersun Warncke | Feb 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
How a Disability Consultant writes towards changeThis week I’m delighted to share a Write Like A Pro interview with Amy Butterworth (LinkedIn), a Long Covid & Accessibility Consultant.Her wisdom is an ideal follow up to last week’s newsletter on empathy. If you...
por Ersun Warncke | Feb 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Honing a double-edged sword The content below was originally paywalled.Understanding empathyA commonplace definition of empathy is ‘understanding other people’s feelings’ — but the quality of, or capacity for, empathy remains complex and hard to pin down. Empathy has...
por Ersun Warncke | Feb 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
Preventing age-related cognitive declineThe content below was originally paywalled.Age — if we’re lucky — comes to us allGiven the options, most are happy with that arrangement. Yet, ageing comes with a freight of worries. Fragilities may emerge and (unlike childhood)...
por Ersun Warncke | Ene 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Swiss-Army knife of intellectual instrumentsFor the past couple of weeks, I’ve focused on how writing can help navigate and ameliorate internal states such as difficult emotions or persistent distractions.To continue too long in this (albeit useful) vein might...
por Ersun Warncke | Ene 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
Write your way to sharper focusAttention is becoming a rare and valuable currency. As the 24-hour news cycle shrinks to 280-character bursts of madness on X and TL;DR is a default, it is harder and harder to pay attention. Given how much attention we pay to attention,...
