The Writing Partner

The most important book in the series. The line comes first, in chapter 1, before any technique: what is always yours, what is help, and what ends degrees - including the rewording trap, which feels like editing and is the clearest demonstration of intent there is. Then the workflow: being questioned until you have an argument rather than a topic, an outline dragged out of your own answers, diagnosis rather than repair when a paragraph will not come, and a critique pass against your actual marking criteria that will do more for your mark than anything else here. It ends with the declaration - and how easy it is to write if you worked this way.