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Comparative Commentaries to Go
Following from the earlier publication of ‘texts to go’, the website is now set to publish a range of Comparative Textual Analyses in a new section called, appropriately enough, ‘comparative commentaries...
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Teaching Writing Free
To the extent I can write at all, I learned most of it by osmosis. Maybe that’s not the whole story, but it’s most of it. I’ve always been a reader and, at least as an adult, a mostly critical editor...
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Imagery & 5 senses
Writers appeal to our senses through the use of imagery. Mistakenly, we often think of imagery as a poetic device that appeals to our sense of sight. Imagery, however, can appeal to all five senses: sight,...
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Virtual Girlfriends Free
At Kastrup Airport in Copenhagen, I was reading John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany whilst waiting for a connecting flight. This would be in the early 1990s, a winter’s night, and I was suffering...
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WT SL (Back in the Bell Jar)
This Written Task is the second task the site has published on Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar. The student uses the novel – studied in Part 3 of her course – to write an online review/blog. The Written...
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Core vocabulary
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Context of reception
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Context of production
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Clause
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Phrase
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