Thursday, February 23, 2012

Essays, Dissertations, Theses, Short Stories etc

July 14, 2011 by  
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What writing do you do?  Do you write for pleasure, for academic achievement, for furthering your business?  I write for pleasure, I love it, it's not a chore.  I just need the odd prod, and to get myself organised and motivated – then the muse is with me and off I go.  Someone invited me [...]

An Essay on an Essay

July 21, 2010 by  
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A very long time ago, my friends, when I was still at school I wrote an essay entitled ‘Spring’.  We had been given carte blanche by our English teacher, a fearsome woman, who was also the headmistress of the boarding school in which I was incarcerated.  Thank goodness conditions at boarding schools seem to have become less [...]

Essays

April 26, 2010 by  
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Essays – what are they?  From my perspective I recall writing essays while at school – and I loved the process.  We were usually provided with a subject on which to comment and on which to write and, in those days, were marked heavily on the correct use of grammar and spelling.  That's not so [...]