Wuthering Heights CCEA AS Level Essay Writing

This book has been created for AS Level students studying Wuthering Heights through the CCEA exam board.

I am an experienced English teacher with a range of leadership roles across English departments. I was inspired to write this book due to the scarcity of similar resources across different texts and different exam boards.

While nearly every text in every exam board has some form of revision book available, very few focus on specific, explicit strategies for students to actively improve their essay writing- whether at a structural level or in the fine details of individual sentences.

This is the purpose and aim of this book.

To provide practical suggestions to students on how improve the way they communicate their ideas effectively.

Whilst it is possible that you can use the interpretations and ideas explored in this book as touchstones to guide and challenge your own thoughts and revision, this book will not provide revision of Wuthering Heights in a way that other guides do, as suggested above.

This book will break down the Chief Examiner’s report, making it clear what effective and ineffective writing looks like as a result. It will dissect each assessment objective, showing you how to refine and improve your writing in relation to them. Through multiple examples and structured practice opportunities, you’ll be able to develop your skills across characters and themes for each objective.

This book will guide you beyond formulaic PEEL, PETAL / acronymic style essays, helping you develop insightful, coherent and analytical writing. You’ll learn to structure your essays effectively and compelling, enabling you to articulate your ideas with depth and purpose.

I warmly welcome feedback and reviews from students, parents and teachers, as I continue to refine and expand approaches to writing better essays.