From Wilkie Collins to Kazuo Ishiguro: What Is An Unreliable Narrator? Authors ranging from Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) to Daphne du Maurier (Rebecca) have utilised the literary device of unreliable narration. First coined by Wayne C. Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction,...
As a PhD student studying at Oxford University, I struggled to find a good balance between work and play. In the past, I struggled with procrastination, and a lack of motivation and planning. Since, however, I have developed an efficient daily routine to help me work...
If you’ve ever sat an exam, you’ll know that writing an essay in exams is a completely different experience to completing an assignment or coursework. There will be strict time-limits and, – as we all know – working under pressure can be incredibly...
Have you ever said to yourself that you’ll start that assignment, apply for that internship or go for that run… once you feel you have the motivation? The problem with this is that – like willpower – each of us has a finite source of motivation and we tend...
Bad grades can be the bane of the hardworking pupil. Sometimes, they materialise as if from nowhere, despite you putting in all the hours to clinch yourself a result you can be proud of. Pupils have had a rough time of it for a while now when it comes to grades, and...
Learning a new language can be a fantastic way of training your brain. Yet the idea of learning a new language, especially when you’re learning it from the beginning, seems anything but simple. You will have to pick up new grammar, memorise vocabulary and...
