The document provides five tips for teaching writing skills to students for the A* level exam: 1. Model writing in the third person to encourage objective analysis. 2. Teach key vocabulary that captures complex ideas concisely. 3. Demonstrate effective introductory and connecting sentences to structure paragraphs and sections. 4. Encourage the use of nominalization to create concise and complex sentence structures. 5. Emphasize the importance of concise writing by eliminating repetition and "waffly" phrases through proofreading.