This book is ideal for helping secondary school students improve Macbeth essay writing in preparation for the GCSE English Literature exams.

Each chapter contains an exam task and a planning checklist designed to help students do regular timed writing practice. There are also twelve complete model essays to help students understand what a good essay looks like. Each model essay demonstrates what the examiners are looking for:

• a critical writing style
• an informed personal response
• use of textual references, including embedded quotations
• analysis of language, form and structure
• relevant subject terminology where appropriate
• demonstration of relationship between text and context
• accurate spelling and punctuation

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