English Resources (page 36)

‘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...

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...