English 30-1 students will wrestle with this particularly crafty animal during their Diploma exam, and let me tell you, it is much different than any personal response question will ask.

These tips, while excruciatingly straight-forward, are stunningly absent from most students’ exam writing handbag. So here they are, the five absolute musts for your novel study exam!

By: Phillip Mattie I admit that there is something annoying about brainstorming. If I were a student, I would look incredulously at my teacher if she told me that I needed to spend five to ten minutes out of precious exam time to generate ideas. What, couldn’t I just think of my ideas as I … Continue reading “The Importance of Brainstorming before Essay Writing”

By: Phillip Mattie I recall my English 30 days with some fondness, though I suppose that I am looking back at them with rose-tinted glasses. Regardless of the colour I view my past in or through which lense, there were some things that I specifically despised about my English tutoring class. One of them was … Continue reading “How to Write a Short Answer Response: A Case Study”

Gut instincts are all about feeling out a situation or a problem and reacting in the best, most appropriate, often awesome way

o get attention, to give it, when we give a speech, and when we are listening or reading are all times when a hefty briefcase full of words and their meanings come in handy. So, it’s important to build your vocabulary strong.