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Hitting the high notes

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Teach writing by dancing up a storm

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A beauty who aged like fine wine

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「理想的年代,美麗的人」

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Setting the scene

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Writing conclusions that work

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Scoring high on the argumentative essay

By Michelle Ng on July 16, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

“You know the meaning of ‘dull as dishwater’?” I asked a writing student the other day. I was using “dull as dishwater” to characterize many of the argumentative essay topics English teachers […]

Teach writing by dancing up a storm

By Michelle Ng on July 15, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Among the things I revisit to maintain my sense of wonder is this one-minute video clip dating back to the1970s showing the choreographer Balanchine teaching the great dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov the role […]

Polishing Secretary of Justice Teresa Cheng’s English

By Michelle Ng on July 14, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

The letter was meant for the English-speaking world but it never saw the light of day there. Last month, after the Wall Street Journal published an editorial holding the Hong Kong courts […]

College application essay makeover

By Michelle Ng on July 13, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

I came across this personal statement on the website of a mainland college prep agency that specializes in writing such documents on behalf of university applicants. Since the company displayed the piece […]

A beauty who aged like fine wine

By Michelle Ng on June 12, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

It was the mother of a primary school classmate – a woman of uncommon good looks – who gave me my first inkling of the kind of power female beauty can command: […]

「理想的年代,美麗的人」

By Michelle Ng on May 14, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

「你真像剛從片場走出來啊!」大街上有陌生人跟我說。

Setting the scene

By Michelle Ng on April 15, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

The scene is to be filmed in a diner in Los Angeles, but the story is set in Manhattan. Solution? Place neon signs outside the eatery and drizzle down artificial rain, so […]

Writing conclusions that work

By Michelle Ng on April 9, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

“A rope is made up of a huge number of fibres, but not a single fibre goes through its entire length. It’s the way the fibres overlap that creates the rope’s strength,” […]

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I'm Michelle Ng (吳若琦), an Oxford-educated bilingual writer and English writing coach based in Hong Kong. I'm currently an English columnist for Ming Pao, and a Chinese columnist for 眾新聞. I was previously an English columnist for Apple Daily, and have written for the Hong Kong Free Press, The Wall Street Journal and The Vancouver Sun

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