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Analysing a larger section of a text – perhaps a chunk of a novel – can seem incredibly daunting at first, even if you have encountered the text in question before.

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Often, it is more about how an author says something rather than what they say. So, the books you're reading might be about completely different things, and have different subject matters, but the way ...

As you practice your technique, your essay writing will generally improve but to support this development you should consider structure, conciseness, use of evidence and purpose. 

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To find key themes in poetry and prose you should revise the content of the text in order to group similar events or similar words. For example, you would find a lexical set of greed in Seamus Heaney's...

As you approach a poem you should consider dividing your analysis into different sections such as form, structure and language. To begin, you should try to understand the content to an extent and then ...