Jeff majored in english and history and is a qualified teacher with some thirty years of experience at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. He is the author of a children’s novel, has edited a variety of educational texts and now works as a feature writer for a major newspaper. As an alternative to a random approach he sees Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy as being extremely useful in structuring activities and questions in texts, so that there is a natural and logical progression – therefore a better and more satisfying understanding.