The terms NET, SIEVE and SPINE are used simply as shorthand for a commonplace of the process of composing text - i.e. that there are three useful (indeed, essential) phases in deciding what you want to say :-In other words, we want our students to Think Before They Write! Even more, we want to help them to think before they write, and that can be difficult if all we ever see is the end result. One year, I had some spare...