OK I don't want to be too harsh because these were written a few years ago, but it's published material designed to 'help' others so....I was reading some of her literary analysis on grangerlifestyle, and it wasn't particularly great. She wrote a blog post on 'The Emigree' (
https://mygrangerlifestyle.wordpress.com/2017/03/23/the-emigree-brief-response/) and concluded with: "Rumen’s message is simple: all immigrants and refugees have lives, pasts, families and memories: we must treat refugees/immigrants with respect" when it's actually a really messy poem about the gap between perception & reality, past & present, trauma, loss.....and she talks a lot about the third stanza, but she only has one interpretation (that the 'they' is people in the speaker's new country), even though it's ambiguous and could also refer to her home country. She also picked up on the speaker's 'innocence' and suggests that she is 'feeling lost' and 'confused' by other people's hostility, which I don't think is evident in the poem at all. She made some good points but it was a very B grade sort of response.
Her 'GCSE and A Level thesis statement exemplars' (
https://mygrangerlifestyle.wordpress.com/2017/05/30/gcse-and-a-level-thesis-statement-exemplars/) were worse in that she is explicitly positioning them as something to copy/emulate. "When Shakespeare directs Leontes [
Aside] in Act I, Scene 2, every audience sees a visceral, sexually explicit blizzard of jealousy as he announces his suspicions of Hermione’s infidelity." Aside from the weird extended snow metaphor that she continues in this paragraph, how does she know what 'every audience' would see? How can Shakespeare be directing Leontes? Leontes isn't an actor, he's a character. A playwright doesn't 'direct' a character, and audience responses will vary massively depending on the context in which the play is performed and received. And does she mean a reader or a stage audience?
It's very formulaic and repetitive - these are lines lifted from two different Winter's Tale thesis statements: "To assess how important a role jealousy plays in
The Winter’s Tale, one must consider...", " To assess whether blood really is thicker than water, one must consider...". It's clear that this is something she was taught to stick to rigidly. Ironically, I can't see any actual argument in her thesis statements at all - she provides a general introduction, but she hasn't actually outlined her stance on the question. This is from her introduction to an essay on A Doll's House: " One must consider “cheerfulness”, Nora’s role as a mother and her conversation with Mrs Linde if they are to begin to answer the question: is happiness ever presented?" Again, the formulaic, 'one must consider', and she hasn't actually outlined her argument, i.e. the extent to which happiness is presented in the play.
If I found out that my students were using Ruby's blog to help improve their writing, I'd not be thrilled - there are far better examples provided by exam boards for public view. It's hard to tell from a snippet of writing, but I would not be giving very high marks to any of the stuff above.