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In terms of general advice, when faced with an extract it is best to go through it line by line, reading it slowly. Try to analyse each line of the extract if possible, then select your best analysis for ...

As you will know, an essay question on a collection of poems will require at least two poems to be mentioned - it will end up being a more comparative-style essay than GCSEs. Therefore, planning ...

For Emily Dickinson, despite being a subjective “thing of the body”, time is essential to the construction of her poetic worlds. The association of time and temporality with mortal life and transience all...

The use of critics in your essays is one of the biggest step-ups from GCSE to A-Level, and is often what fazes students the most. In terms of actually finding criticism, you should make use of yo...

One very simple way to structure essays at A-Level and GCSE is to follow the same pattern so that you don't get confused, or end up waffling. I always start with an introduction, pick out three or four ma...