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    Teacher blog: When it's good to say it's bad
    Diving Bell
    • Aug 21, 2019
    • 3 min

    Teacher blog: When it's good to say it's bad

    One of the problems is that students forget that they’re supposed to be forming a personal response to the texts. And that often begins with
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    Student blog: analysing the quote
    Diving Bell
    • Aug 17, 2019
    • 4 min

    Student blog: analysing the quote

    Analysis does NOT mean paraphrase it. You should say how the quote shows your point (so you’ve got to have one of those) not that it does.
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    Teacher Grammar
    Diving Bell
    • Aug 15, 2019
    • 1 min

    Teacher Grammar

    It's the weak chink in most people's armour, if they were born after 1975. Can you spot a grammar error - and identify it?
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    Teacher blog: A better way of marking
    Diving Bell
    • Aug 12, 2019
    • 3 min

    Teacher blog: A better way of marking

    The Pattern of Mistakes (POMs) marking strategy identifies the most common mistakes and prioritizes the order of tackling them.
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    Student Blog: How to Quote Good
    Diving Bell
    • Aug 10, 2019
    • 3 min

    Student Blog: How to Quote Good

    Good quoting mechanics make the difference between looking like you speak English, and looking like you hurt it.
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    Student blog: The stand-out essay feature
    Diving Bell
    • Aug 6, 2019
    • 2 min

    Student blog: The stand-out essay feature

    You need to expand on the (big, impressive, profound) idea you’ve raised in the topic sentence with a few more sentences before moving ele
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    Student blog: Topic sentences that convince markers
    Diving Bell
    • Aug 2, 2019
    • 3 min

    Student blog: Topic sentences that convince markers

    There are three things you must do in your topic sentence: 1. Make a clear reference to the question 2. Bring up the first idea mentioned
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    Student blog: Outlining your argument
    Diving Bell
    • Jul 28, 2019
    • 3 min

    Student blog: Outlining your argument

    Good essays answer the question and explain their answer. This is an argument. Bad essays repeat the question and say memorized, irrelevant
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    Teacher blog: Trials and Revelations
    Diving Bell
    • Jul 23, 2019
    • 3 min

    Teacher blog: Trials and Revelations

    Bands 3 and 4 are solidly made up of well-meaning kids who think that memorizing ten quotes and telling you where polysyndeton can be found
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    Student blog: Giving context in your introduction
    Diving Bell
    • Jul 20, 2019
    • 3 min

    Student blog: Giving context in your introduction

    After you’ve given a straight answer to the question in your thesis statement (if you’re confused about this, read the last blogpost...
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    Student blog: WTF is a thesis statement anyway?
    Diving Bell
    • Jul 14, 2019
    • 3 min

    Student blog: WTF is a thesis statement anyway?

    Are your essays terrible? It's probably because of one of these problems: 1. You don't understand what an essay actually is - I mean, WTF...
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    Teacher blog: Using model answers
    Diving Bell
    • Jul 10, 2019
    • 3 min

    Teacher blog: Using model answers

    Sadly, most students aren't really receptive to model answers until after the Trials. Most Year 12s will try to use what they already...
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