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    Boost Your Essay Grades and Skills in 1 Month
    Boost Your Essay Grades and Skills in 1 Month
    Boost Your Essay Grades and Skills in 1 Month
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    Boost Your Essay Grades and Skills in 1 Month

    By Pervaiz Salik

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    Essay writing is probably the most difficult to learn - and to teach. Most textbooks either do not attempt to teach the required skills or go into so much depth that it takes at least six months to master them. This unique book focuses on those skills and techniques that can be mastered in one month and yet significantly improve your grade. It is suitable for all first English examinations (GCSE, IGCSE. GCE O level. SQA core 4/5). Every key aspect of essay skills is dealt with. Samples of good writing, exercises and solutions are presented so that mastery can be achieved in 1 month.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPervaiz Salik
    Release dateAug 8, 2015
    ISBN9781310461040
    Boost Your Essay Grades and Skills in 1 Month
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    Pervaiz Salik

    I have an honours degree in Mathematics from the Open University and taught in Scotland before gaining an M.A. in English Literature. I taught English to O Level International GCSE Cambridge students for 14 years in Pakistan and was Head of Department there. My Haiku on Cultural Diversity is published in UNESCO’S Cultural Report 2000. My story of Big Samson The Big Lion (in a much shorter form) was accepted for publication by Oxford University Press, but never published for technical reasons. Currently, I have published about 12 e-books on the teaching of English, novels, short stories and poetry. My Spelling book was ranked number 1 in its category on Amazon. My interests include chess, badminton, bridge and astronomy. (Pervaiz Salik)

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      Boost Your Essay Grades and Skills in 1 Month - Pervaiz Salik

      Boost Your Essay Grades and Skills in 1` Month

      By

      Pervaiz Salik

      Copyright © Pervaiz Salik 2019

      Published by Pervaiz Salik

      (Revised 2nd Edition)

      ISBN: 9781310461040

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

      Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Exercise on Planning

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Solutions to Exercises

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 13

      Chapter 1

      Essay Writing: An Overview

      How to Make Your Essays Interesting [discussed in later chapters]:

      1. Know these characteristics of good essays/essays:

      (a) Attention-grabbing opening

      (b) Interesting details, observations, imaginative details throughout

      (c) Variety in sentence structures, construction and other devices (literary: simile, metaphor, etc.)

      (d) Rich, varied use of vocabulary

      (e) Unusual twists and ending

      2. Be technically correct:

      (a) No grammatical mistakes

      (b) Correct use of punctuation and capitalization

      (c) Correct spelling

      The more of the above elements are present in your essay, the better will be your marks. We will discuss these points in more detail in later chapters. Here we deal with some important preliminary points.

      3. Types of Essays

      Know the major types of essays you may have to write:

      (a) Personal Experience

      (b) Narrative

      (c) Descriptive

      (d) Discursive: Argumentative/ Persuasive

      (e) Critical

      (f) Factual (Presenting facts or explaining some task or skill to someone)

      (g) (Humorous)

      (h) (Imaginative)

      Normally an essay will be a mixture of types, but one of the above will dominate. The first five are the commonest and most important types; they are discussed in detail later. The ones in brackets are more difficult and can usually be avoided because of choice; we will discuss them very briefly later on.

      4. Process of Writing

      Know that the actual process of essay writing in the examination involves three main stages:

      (a) Planning [see next chapter]

      (b) Writing: physically putting your thoughts down on paper

      (c) Checking for errors [see chapter 12]

      5 Make sure that your writing is clear and legible

      Your handwriting is likely to be less than your best under examination condition where you will be writing more quickly. You should ensure that your writing is legible; in particular, individual letters should be clear: c should not look like e, for instance. You may like to use a fine black-tipped pen to improve legibility. Also, if your writing is poor, practice writing a paragraph each day and ask others to read it and point out any problems in reading or mixing up the letters.

      Chapter 2

      Essay Writing: Planning

      Planning is essential to ensure you have enough good ideas and the whole essay has unity and coherence. The usual way to plan is

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