Skills from the Dark Shadow Manual

As the exam beckons (or looms....) and things draw to a close for the year, it is timely to re-visit the core skills taught. Let me know if u need me to 'conduct a flashback' on any of the skills below or whether u need me to touch on any particular areas that you think would be of help to you in your preparations for the paper.....You can either raise it in class or 'drop me a howler' at aegeansea09@gmail.com.

Skills from the Dark Shadow Manual:

Paper 1:
1) How to Choose and Analyze Qns
2) How to Brainstorm (7 methods)
3) Essay Structure and Signposting Devices
4) Paragraph Development
-PEEL
-elaboration strategies
-Up-sized burger
5) Crafting intro and conclusion
6) Absolute terms
-how to disagree and 'agree'
7) Comparative Qns
8) Executing rebuttals
- 'big' and 'small' pic rebuttal

Paper 2:
1) Question types approach
2) pointers for summary
3) suggestions for paraphrasing
4) AQ
-big and small structure
-how to generate own input
-AQ in 2 parts
-use of common/related quotes
-quoting OVs (instead of SVs)
-how to address 'you'/'yourself'