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Don’t know how to begin an essay? Start by listening to the question.
With the Singapore-Cambridge GCE A-Level H1 General Paper examination approaching, there’s little time left to second-guess yourself.
Faced with a choice of questions, a word count to meet and a head full of notes, recollections and competing ideas, how do you decide what to write?
The answer begins before you write your first sentence.
The first five to ten minutes you spend with an essay question can shape everything that follows. This mini e-guide shows you how to slow down, deconstruct the question, identify the issue at its heart and develop a nuanced, calibrated response.
You don’t need another pile of arguments to memorise. You need a more deliberate way to think about the question in front of you.
Stop. Listen. Think.
Let me show you.
Available as a Kindle e-book on Amazon.com.
Price: USD4.99
She-Hulk: A Meta Commentary
She-Hulk: A Meta Commentary is an episode-by-episode analysis of a largely misunderstood Marvel TV series that many viewers took at face value. Rather than a conventional superhero narrative, the show is a tightly woven piece of television metafiction — one that depicts not the clash of superpowered beings, but a head-on collision between two very different narrative styles.
In doing so, the series questions not only the tropes of heroic storytelling, but also the expectations placed on the genre and the role of the viewing audience itself.
If you were disappointed by She-Hulk: Attorney at Law yet found yourself wondering why the writers made the scripting choices they did, this commentary offers a guide to the method behind the madness. It hopes that previous viewers might consider giving the series a second watch — and that first-time viewers might go in with more realistic expectations of this unexpectedly human treatment of a superhero’s tale.
This mini e-book is shared freely to curious readers.
Please credit the author if you choose to share it.
Also available as a Kindle e-book on Amazon.
Stay curious…!