A Self Among the Crowd
Charlotte Mew’s most – indeed only – famous poem ‘The Farmer’s Bride’ (1912) currently features on a syllabus for GCSE. She is not, then, entirely forgotten; although beyond the world...
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How to Write a Phd Thesis http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/thesis.html Produced by the University of New South Wales, this site gives some simple and practical advice on the problems of getting started, getting...
How complex or simple should sentences be?
“There is a tendency for sentences to be long and involved, or to include sentences without a verb. But, again, more scholarly writers often have an extremely clear style and...
Type ‘R’ for Recovery
Writing for emotional survival is a well known therapy. Release comes through using words as a purge, or as a mechanism to achieve perspective, which helps control or channel destructive,...
Flow Versus Feed
Gradually but inexorably, the outside world slips away. Concentration intensifies as the butterfly mind falls silent, relinquishing its habitual inner monologue. Time passes unnoticed; seconds slide into minutes, into hours....
Different varieties of essay, different kinds of writing
There’s more to it than quoting experts Different essays are designed to do different things. Some essays are designed to find out what you’ve learned about a particular aspect of...
Abstracts, tone, unity of style
Abstracts Some departments and institutions stipulate that your dissertation has to be prefaced with an abstract. If you’ve read the section on ‘Scientific writing’ you will have seen the definition...
Ut Pictura Poesis
I am a painter and a poet. At art college, many years before the rise of creative writing courses, I learned the craft of painting. Much of this has, in...
Basic definitions
Pop quiz Journalist Robert Winder has this to say about essays: ‘In a way, an essay is just a grown-up version of the tie-breakers in supermarket quizzes: Complete the line...
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