Publication Date: 2002
Pages: 160
This concise student friendly guide focuses on three key strategies for improving essay performance: answering the question and making a strong argument, analyzing language and examining literary technique, and discussing genre and considering context. Tony Myers's writing is lively and humorous, offering advice that is supported by helpful examples drawn directly from student essays.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1: Section 1: Essay Writing
- Answering the Question
- Constructing an Argument
- Making a Coherent Argument
- Making a Connected Argument
- Making a Complex Argument
- Analysing a Text
- Structuring an Essay
- Part 2: Section 2: Technical Language
- Analysing Language
- Analysing Themes
- Analysing Grammar
- Analysing Rhetoric
- Analysing Structure
- Analysing Text and Context
- Analysing the Structure of Comedy
- Analysing the Reader’s Response
- Part 3: Section 3: Genre
- Analysing Different Types of Drama
- Analysing Tragic Drama
- Analysing Comic Drama
- Analysing Plays in Performance
- Analysing Shakespearean Drama
- Analysing the Structure of Poetry (Part 1)
- Analysing the Structure of Poetry (Part 2)
- Analysing Poetic Figuration
- Analysing The Meaning of a Poem
- Analysing Different Types of Poetry
- Analysing the Structure of Novels
- Analysing Point of View in Novels
- Analysing Characterization in Novels
- Analysing Different Types of Novel
- Analysing Gothic, Historiographic and Postcolonial Novels