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If you're not a troll (and you need to practice if you are), bad markers will always be bad. This guide gives bad markers less freedom to justify themselves and gives you better grounds for a re-mark. As for the millions of other essay guides, how many focus on the Advanced English HSC? Did...

INTRODUCTIONS (don't skip ;)) Introductions are strange beasts. Many teachers claim they mean little to nothing, as long as your body paragraphs are good. Others claim that they set expectations which they mark to for the rest of the essay. Most markers fall somewhere in between. Intros do...

THE SYLLABUS AND YOU (skippable, but the last bit is worth reading :)) You’re a teenager. You have multiple commitments, including but not limited to your subjects (of which English is one of maybe 6 or 7), sports, social life, co-curricular activities, extracurricular activities. You’re busy...

PREFACE (feel free to skip ;)) A quality essay will use excellent technique (essay structure, linkage, style) to accompany good material (relevant quotes and techniques).Technique can be learnt, adapted, applied and re-applied until it becomes a fully functioning part of your English...

Massive wall of angry text incoming, read at own risk :) I am an ex-English tutor. I started teaching with the best of intentions. Who wouldn't get a kick out of explaining the most controversial and subjective syllabus in the whole HSC to future doctors, lawyers, leaders and captains of...