Here is an extract from a candidate’s essay about the theme of love in Shakespeare ... Try not to begin analysis with the phrase ‘This shows…’ – you have to analyse the words of ...

To complete the wave, think about concluding and drawing together all of the information you have explored, and summarising it so that it leads nicely onto the next piece of reading or essay paragraph ...

At the end of every paragraph in your critical essay, and in your conclusion ... Here is what the judges had to say: In a late-night football analysis show, Top of the League, three pundits ...