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Tackling English

  • 13-08-2014 3:27pm
    #1
    Music4Life085
    Registered Users Posts: 102 ✭✭


    I find English very difficult to study for, I was wondering does anyone know the best way to study for English Higher Level and write good quality essays?
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  • #2
    quad_red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,561 ✭✭✭quad_red


    Music4Life085 wrote: »
    I find English very difficult to study for, I was wondering does anyone know the best way to study for English Higher Level and write good quality essays?

    What do you mean study for?

    You find it hard to motivate yourself or you find the material difficult to understand?


  • #3
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,238 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Music4Life085 wrote: »
    I find English very difficult to study for, I was wondering does anyone know the best way to study for English Higher Level and write good quality essays?

    Read good quality novels/stories.
    Then read some more.


  • #4
    Music4Life085
    Registered Users Posts: 102 ✭✭Music4Life085


    quad_red wrote: »
    What do you mean study for?

    You find it hard to motivate yourself or you find the material difficult to understand?


    It's not so much the understanding, I think the quality of my work isn't up to standard.


  • #5
    brian888
    Closed Accounts Posts: 175 ✭✭brian888


    Practise. Write more short essays about anything and everything. Try describing a place in less than 300 words perfectly.


  • #6
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    spurious wrote: »
    Read good quality novels/stories.
    Then read some more.
    brian888 wrote: »
    Practise.
    ...


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  • #7
    jetsonx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭jetsonx


    Practice. Practice. Practice.

    You can read books about how to write an essay or read long critiques as to whether Hamlet was mad.

    But, all of this is useless if you don't put it into practice.

    So find a sample essay title or exam question then lock yourself into a room with an A4 pad or computer (which has no internet connection)
    and write. Stay there for a whole hour until you fill a a page or two. There is no easy way.

    After a while, this process becomes easier. Try get somebody to look over your work.

    It will tough at first but eventually you should get the knack of writing good essays / answers under a certain time period.


  • #8
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,238 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    If you have seen well written essays/stories/prose then it is much easier to do it yourself. Dickens, Burke, Austen, Bronte, Conrad - any of the classics.


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