Formal writing resources

Dear students

Formal writing requires you to do a little writing before the exam. Remember the basics:

• Read the question carefully
• Consider your audience
• Adopt an appropriate tone
• Have a clear structure (introduction, body paragraphs, conclusion)
  
• Provide evidence to support your view
• Plan your answer
• Have topic sentences in your paragraphs
  
• Never be offensive
  

Study It has a good web page here to help you revise.

Senior revision resources.

If you are looking for mock exam questions or reports on what examiners are seeking then a good place to go is the page NZQA website linking to resources for all external exams in English.

Level two students go here for mock exams, etc.

Level one students go here for mock exams, etc.

Don't forget that commercial study guides are available for nearly all NCEA subjects at most bookstores.

Bibme

Are you looking for an online tool to help you compile a bibliography? Try Bibme. For English papers, select the MLA (Modern Language Association) format.

All students remember that Term Four is a big one on this blog. We start to focus on revision and I make an extra effort to try to post to the Hub at least once a week this term with revision related links.