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Essay writing & exams: Answering the question; structuring your response
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Exams and memory: getting better at both.
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A renowned educator and award-winning writer, Mario offers effective advice on how to produce the best essays possible. He also provides useful study aids for boosting exam grades.
My particular specialisms in this context are Essays, Essay-writing skills, Exams, General Study Skills and Writing in University.
My own work spans a range of subject and style, from serious and formal verse to up-beat performance and experimental poetry. The areas in which I can offer particular expertise include:
Performance: Readings & Training Biculturalism Schools & Colleges Workshops / Creative Writing Publication & Small Presses Science & Technology in Poetry War Poetry Experimental Poetry (ShadoWork) Environmental Issues Discussions / Seminars / Lectures Contemporary Writing & 'Poeclectics' Site-specific & Public Poetry
Prizes and Literary awards include:
2007 Cinequest Award for "Best Short Documentary" for Half Life: a Journey to Chernobyl 2005/6 Arts Council England "Grants for the Arts: Science in Poetry" 2004 National Poetry Competition: 3rd Prize (and Commended) 2003 Essex Book Awards "Best Fiction" Prize 2000-2002 2003 Silver Wyvern Award and The New Writer (winner) 2002 Daily Telegraph/ Arvon International Poetry Prize 2002 Arts Council England Writers Award and (winner) Salisbury 1999 Bridport Poetry Prize 1998 New London Writers Award (London Arts) 1998 Winner, Shefield Thursday Prize 1997 Winner, Sheffield Thursday Prize 1997 Winner of inaugural Irish Times Perpetual Trophy 1996 + 1995 Edith Kitt Memorial Awards (for outstanding competition performance) 1996 Poetry Book Society Recommendation and Frogmore Poetry Prize
Four times winner of London Writers Competition (2005, 2004,1998, 1993). Three times winner of a Sheffield Thursday Poetry Prize.
Residencies and Fellowships include:
2006 - 08 .... Royal Literary Fund, Research Project Fellowship: Science and Writing 2004 - 06 .... Southwell Workhouse (Fearnought Project) 2004 - 05 .... BBC Radio 3 2003 ........... BBC World Service 2002 ........... Cabinet War Rooms 2000 - 02 .... Year of the Artist 1999 et seq .. Imperial War Museum
"As close as we have to a 21st Century renaissance man... one of the most interesting and best poets of our times" (Literati Magazine)
Hi. My name is Mario Petrucci. My main contribution to the Greatvine site at this time is to do with Study Skills and Essay Writing. I am a fellow with the Royal Literary Fund, specialising in ways to improve student work, particularly for those who've hit a block with essay or exam grades. I've developed a reputation (a good one!) for inventing useful and highly visual student aids in these areas. The materials I've provided on Greatvine are, I feel, among my most accessible, relevant and effective. They're tried and tested. Anyone can use them.
PLEASE BE AWARE: I am currently unavailable for consultations and therefore, in the meantime, please do take advantage of my written materials. I hope you will find them of help.
Meanwhile, my CV tells me I'm a multi-award-winning writer, freelance teacher, film-maker and eco-physicist. In 1999 I became the only poet to have been resident at the Imperial War Museum and with BBC Radio 3. I am currently Literacy Consultant at the IWM, dealing with creative captioning, applied literacy and family learning. I founded, and organise, several writing ventures in London which incorporate readings, training and workshops (Blue Nose, writers inc., ShadoWork, Diorama). I also devise and run a variety of creative writing and literacy courses across the UK, for Arvon, in schools, universities and on the performance scene.
I deliver AQA-related workshops/ lectures on war poetry (plus national INSET for Edexcel, relating to the London syllabus), and am involved in the Poetryclass initiative (DfEE and the Poetry Society) which provides poetry services to all schools in the country. I also contribute to international conferences, for instance with NAWE and the British Council.
But none of that need worry you! I hope the essays and exams go well.
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Essay writing & exams: Answering the question; structuring your response
By Mario Petrucci
Exams and memory: getting better at both.
By Mario Petrucci
