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    • Comparing formal and informal registers: the Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 File DOCX

      A simplified version of the declaration of human rights is compared with the original, to point out features of informal and formal registers. This could be a useful comparison particularly for any writer who had trouble with gauging the right register to use in their essay.

    • Points about paragraphing in essays File PDF

      •Examples of common misunderstandings about paragraphing in the essay genre.
      •Distinguishing ‘reader-friendly’ from ‘reader UNfriendly’ textual organisation in prose writing
      •What a paragraph is
      •How a paragraph is typographically distinguished on the page
      •The topic sentence
      •Examples of paragraphs by experienced prose essay writers
      •Examples in other text types – news reports, propaganda - which may use much shorter paragraphs