A shake-up of English literature at A-level will result in teenagers studying a minimum of eight texts in depth, says a consultation paper. History A-level students will study a "chronological range" ...

The word essay comes from the French word ‘essayer’ meaning ‘to try’ or ‘to attempt’. A French writer called Michel de Montaigne invented the essay in Europe as his ‘attempt’ to write about himself ...

English literature has fallen out of the top 10 most popular subjects at A-level for the first time. It saw the biggest drop in candidates for a single subject with more than 1,000 entries, falling by ...

Exam board OCR has increased the diversity of its A Level and GCSE English Literature syllabus, with new titles including Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton). To widen the ...

Extended "discourse," such as class presentations or essays written as school assignments, has a particular structure arising from particular expectations and standards. Such structure, expectations, ...

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