I set you your first essay task this week. We discussed how to go about planning, structuring and writing the essay to move on from GCSE format through to a more mature style at AS. The task you were given was to answer the question:

How does Fitzgerald establish the characters of Daisy, Nick, Tom and Jordan in Chapter One?

If you are still unsure about what style to use when writing your essay, some of these links might be helpful as they direct you to newspapers/magazines/journals which publish academic literary essays. You can also look at ‘The English Review’ magazine which is available in the library and Ms Seaman – the librarian – will be able to guide you  towards other books containing literary criticism. It would also be worth investigating ‘The Cambridge Companion to F.Scott Fitzgerald’.

Web Links:

London Review of Books: http://www.lrb.co.uk

Guardian Books: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books

Times Literary Supplement: http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/