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Critical Essays

Writing an Essay: Simple Techniques to Transform Your Coursework and Examinations (Student Handbooks)

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This can be used in all essay based subjects to help you secure those higher marks
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Textual Analysis

Practice in Textual Analysis Higher English

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Contains examples of passages to analyse along with tips on how to do this. I do believe that the answers are also provided.
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Textbooks

Selected Scottish Poems for Analysis and Discussion

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This book contains eight different poets and helps to analyse their poetry fully and gives suggested essay questions. It also helps poetry textual analysis.
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Revision Guides

York Notes on...

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York notes havenotes on a range of plays. These are very well written but perhaps too complex for higher...
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Question Books

SQA Past Papers

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Trying past exam papers is essential for Higher English, and although this is a relatively expensive set, it has all the recent papers (2003 to 2007) as well as a rough marking scheme.
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General Interest

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) [Adult edition]

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The fifth and long-awaited Harry Potter book! But nothing to do with the Higher English course. In fact, I believe your not allowed to use it for personal study!
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