Don’t overuse direct speech

Don’t overuse direct speech

Too much direct speech in a narrative can become difficult for the reader to follow, so it is important to choose which words will work best in direct speech.

Read Don’t overuse direct speech (.pdf 72kB). Follow the instructions to rewrite the text so that you reduce the amount of direct speech that is used and share your work with your classmates on the class blog. Then you will be able to compare the changes that you made with the changes that others made to the original text.