English Resources (page 36)

Writing a commentary on ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’ poses difficulties – it seems almost designed to be elusive to traditional critical analysis. It is composed of thirt...

Many students struggle with writing style when they move from school to university essays. Comments such as "poor style" and "non-academic language" are often found scrawled across st...

The subject of archaic shamanism and the vast numbers of historical and contemporary reports of accompanying paranormal shamanic phenomena can be considered to be of great value and i...

Compare and contrast the ways in which Atwood and Duffy use language and the narrative voice.Duffy s anthology The World s Wife and Atwood s novel Alias Grace , both published with...

I decided to become a tutor almost two years ago as a way to not only set up an independent business but also to put my English degree to good use. As the older sister to four much yo...

As a registered learning disabilities nurse, the author had worked for many years with people who have an autistic spectrum disorder, or other types of learning disability. In 2002...

Daily Reading The importance of daily reading is as important today as it has ever been. With higher expectations coming from the new National Curriculum 2014, the skill of reading wh...

As a child, we were always encouraged to use our imagination, to think outside the box. A child is seen as innocent and epitomises freedom they have no responsibility but merely liv...

There is a clear gap in writing, where boys do worse than girls. Boy’s consistent underachievement in this area is an injustice that the government, with other agencies have identif...

A common problem with students at all levels, is confusion about how to revise for an English Literature exam, or how to revise for an essay. There is sometimes a conception that the...