 Here is the single biggest mistake that many year 11 students make in the English Literature Essays. The single biggest mistake I've seen way too many year 11s make in the English Literature Essay is they stuff each paragraph that they write with way too many quotes. Now you might be thinking, hang on, my teacher's told me I need to put loads of quotations in. However, let me tell you why this is an actual mistake. Where students go wrong is when they're writing the English Literature Essays and they're adding lots and lots of quotations per paragraph, they don't even analyse it. They don't talk about, for example, what does this show about context? What does this show about the author's message? What kind of themes are being explored? It's better to take one quotation and do a deep dive and unpack how this is showing context, themes, characters and so on, rather than having loads and loads of quotations, but then you don't even analyse them. So remember it's better when you're writing these English Literature Essays to have fewer quotes, but then you do a deep dive, you go into lots of analysis per paragraph rather than having loads and loads of quotations.