Form Six buddies shine in essay writing


Peer support: Shalina (left) and Carrie Ann taking a shared interest in the NiE pullout.

ESSAY writing is a language task commonly treated as mundane homework for most students.

But for Form Six students Carrie Ann Lim Yi Wen and Shalina Shamsul Bahri, it has become an exciting undertaking ever since they discovered a writing platform in The Star’s Newspaper-in-Education (NiE) pullout for secondary schools.

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