Guide to spelling, punctuation and grammar

CONTENTS
Preface
vii
Introduction
ix
1 Planning Your Essay
1
What are you being asked to do?
1
Making a plan
6
2 The Opening Paragraph
11
‘Waffle’
12
The length of the opening paragraph
15
Useful phrases
16
More opening paragraphs
18
3 The Body of the Essay
26
Paragraphs
26
More examples of paragraphs
30
Continuity
34
The use of close references
38
More about the body of the essay
41
4 The Closing Paragraph
43
Final sentence
45
Further examples of closing paragraphs
45
5 Summary of Essay Structure
50
6 Sample Essay 1: A Discursive Essay
52
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7 Sample Essay 2: Literature
61
Essays on literature in examinations
61
8 Sample Essay 3: Writing about Poetry
71
9 Sample Essay 4: Another Essay on a Poem
77
10 Sample Essay 5: A Media Studies Essay
83
11 Sample Essay 6: History
91
12 Sample Essay 7: Writing About a Novel
97
13 Sample Essay 8: Writing in Response to a