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  • Guide to Writing Fiction

    Guide to Writing Fiction

    A plot is the skeleton of a story, and is therefore essential to any work of fiction. If you plan on writing a story without a plot, don’t even expect your mother to read it, yet alone the rest of the world. In this guide, we’re going to outline a bulletproof formula to plan and…

  • How to Write a Language Analysis Essay

    How to Write a Language Analysis Essay

    This post is an extension to my previous guide: Journalism 101: Language Analysis. The ability to analyse how language is used to persuade an audience is critical to any journalist; it is also handy knowledge for daily readers of the news so they can avoid being manipulated by crafty journalists. Once you have learnt all…

  • Guide to Language Analysis

    Guide to Language Analysis

    The most fundamental aspect to Journalism, and a skill that is drilled into students of the field before anything else is language analysis. Why? (you may ask). Simple: because journalists are required to write persuasively in order to subtly sway the reader into thinking or believing x instead of y. Before they can develop the…

  • Guide to Extract Analysis

    Guide to Extract Analysis

    Extract analysis is when you take an extract from a film, book or a play, and you analyse the selected text and put it into context. Extract analyses are a great way to to hone your writing skills and ability to flesh out ideas and themes. The best way to describe the process of extract…

  • Introduction to Textual Analysis

    Introduction to Textual Analysis

    By reading this week’s reading, one can denote that it is a chapter out of a Media Studies book written by a man named Nick Lacey.  You can further denote that it is in fact a chapter out of a textbook, whose audience would mainly consist of Media Studies students at school or university. The…