English Resources (page 36)

What are Phonics?Phonics is simply a way of teaching children to read intuitively and quickly. By breaking words down to the sounds of letters and letter combinations, these sounds ca...

The role of technology today has expanded the learning environments beyond classrooms, which has resulted in more responsibilities for the teachers and more independence to the learne...

Thoughts of perfectibility were surrounded by much controversy and excitement for Victorian England. It was widely agreed that the existential industrial growth in Britain at the time...

A careful look at Jack Kerouac s On the Road brings the concept of excessive pleasure to the forefront, changing the tone of this particular extract from light-hearted fun to someth...

‘The Annuals are now the only books bought for presents to young ladies in which way poems formerly had their chief vent’- Robert Southey (1828) The first literary annual in Britain...

When I was a student at secondary school, there was a real stigma around the concept of private tutoring. For some reason, the students that had someone to improve their academic pote...

Masculinity is a central theme in both The Picture of Dorian Gray and Wuthering Heights, and both novels examine traditional and modern models of masculinity, contemporary to the ...

Music does more than simply communicate the emotions of characters. I will consider how Hitchcock uses music in Rope,[1] Rear Window,[2] and the remake of The Man Who Knew Too Mu...

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...