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English Language personal statements

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English Language and Literature

By: Florrie · Accepted by University of Oxford

Two events, in particular, have both instilled a personal literary curiosity ...

English Language

By: Holly · Accepted by Newcastle University

Institutional inequalities between gender are highly prominent within the mod...

By: Ruairi · Accepted by Queen's University, Belfast

The English language has always been central to my interests throughout my li...

English and Creative Writing

By: Sophie · Accepted by University of Birmingham

A world without the rich woven fabric of literature would be a world sapped o...

By: Vicky · Accepted by Royal Holloway, University of London

The English language is spoken by approximately 2 billion people worldwide, d...

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110 courses

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60 courses

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436 courses

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