HOW TO
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ESSAYS
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HOW TO
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ESSAYS
A step-by-step guide for all levels,
with sample essays
Don Shiach
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author and publishers are grateful to Nicholas Murray and the Rack Press,
Kinnerton, Presteigne, Powys LD8 2PF for permission to reproduce History
from Nicholas Murray’s collection ‘The Narrators’.
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Text © Don Shiach 2009
First edition 2007, second edition 2009
First published in electronic form 2009
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ISBN: 978 1 84803 323 8
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