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The first thing you want to do is really make sure you understand the question: this is something that is worth spending time on. Questions are often provocative for a reason: think about what tensions come ...

Most importantly, your essay should respond directly to the question so the use of question terms is important throughout especially in your introduction and conclusion. A good essay structure would open wit...

In recent years, Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ has regularly been read as a symbol of the colonial plight and as an anti-colonial proponent. In the postcolonial world context, scholars such as Cesaire support ...

Scott uses the past to stage the present changes in Scottish national identity in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, brought about originally by the Union of 1707. In The Heart of Midlothian...

The first, and perhaps most important, step is to 'deconstruct' the essay question. Essentially what you need to do is find 'the heart' of the question, this will usually allude to a certain thesis that you ...