Having completed my English GCSE a little under two months ago, I can still clearly remember one of the most important things you had to include in the Original Writing part of the English coursework: plenty of 'language techniques'. These came in the form of connectives, imperatives, metaphors, similes, and oxymorons. But you couldn't just throw these 'techniques' in any which way and hope to get marks for knowing how to spell a tricky ...