Lucille Said:

How do I write an essay without being cheesy?

We Answered:

Use a thesaurus, they help a lot. They can turn almost anything into a descriptive, complex yet understandable statement. They also make you sound smarter.

Mabel Said:

If I am writing an essay for my English class what tense should I write it in?

We Answered:

If you're writing an essay about a book, you use the simple present to describe it. You use the simple past to describe things that happened before the story began.

ex. Diane adopts a young child. She names him Lucien because he kept repeating the Tseven phrase "Lu-Sian." The real reason she adopts him is that her mom had prepared her to live without romantic love and to not have any children.

Rene Said:

I need to write an essay fro my English degree about how the town or countyside is represented in a novel?

We Answered:

FREE ESSAYS and LETTERS.

I've put together a list of links for you to look at and hope that they help you with ideas, I would suggest airing on the side of caution and would also suggest that you don’t use these essays as your own.


If you want them then E-Mail me and I'll send you them.

Claude Said:

How do you practice for an English Essay?

We Answered:

Yeah, definitely like the other dude says, calm down!!! I guess i'm not quite sure how you're education system works, but can you get previous exam questions of the internet or somewhere else that are at your year level? if not, try and remember ones that you have been asked before, or ask your teacher for some - I'm sure they will only be to happy to help- and try and answer these/ come up with slight variations on these questions then try to answer them. If you only have 50 minutes per essay, then practice timing yourself at home and figure out how much you will be able to write in that time. That way when you get into your exam you will be able to plan your time alot better, realise when you need to speed up and write less, or see if you have an opportunity to slow down and write more etc.

Quotes are not that hard to remeber, especially if you have 5 weeks. You can write them down on 1 sheet of paper (along with the page numbers! lol) and just spend a couple of minutes reading over them each night, after a while they will be quite easy to recall. Perhaps the hard part is finding quotes!!! A good idea is just skim reading back through your books, perhaps looking for 1 or 2 quotes (try to find good short ones - easier to remeber!) that will summarise a chapter or an idea. Another thing you can do is seach the internet for quotes from your book, or, like i sometimes do, copy the really smart kids list of quotes, as they will have spent ages trawling through the book looking for good ones.

Another great thing to have when having to answer a reasonably random question is a set of a few specific things you want to talk about, so that you don't try to memorise everything in the book - then you can usually talk about these things in slightly different ways to fit the question that you are given. These are generally going to be techniques used in the books, such as symbolisim, foreshadowing, contrast, use of irony, sarcasim etc. etc. Hopefully your teacher will have given you notes on this sort of stuff; and if you want to be prepared, you can make your own study notes from your class notes, perhaps a paragraph or a few bullet points on each technique/ device. Then you can read this stufff over for a few minutes every night,just like the quotes, and before long it will become just common knowledge floating around in your head.

Another great thing to do is plan the start of your introduction; which will usually be giving a breif overview of your book, and what it is about. If you can figure out these 2 or so sentances at home, then that saves you just a bit of time in the exam, and also gets something down on the paper straight away, so you hopefully don't have that feeling of not knowing how to start!

Also you should ask your teacher if they would look at some of the essays you write as practice - they should be happy to do so, or if not perhaps another engish teacher you know or have had before will be able to do this for you, if you have a not so good teacher this year.

Hope you can take some stuff out of this!

Oh, and perhaps try looking up your books on the internet to see if there's anything on there about them, and check out this website: http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/index.html from the UK it's got lots of really good advice for analysing books and writing essays - so have a read, it helps me alot!

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