TheVatican
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Ok so i'm quite pissed off that i got low C's for my last ancient history essay based on my structure, 'sophisticated language' and lack of referencing websites. How does sophisticated language contribute to my low mark? As long as it makes sense and fits into the context of what i'm trying to say right? Well my teacher says that unnecessary language will lose me marks, keep it simple and straight forward she says. And as for referencing websites, i will be happy to admit my complicity in the lack of referencing websites but my question is this, to what extent is referencing secondary sources necessary? I referred to my sources and brought in content from my provided text book and class papers, furthermore, i only used content from 2 websites and they were like 1 or 2 sentences, but my teacher justified her harsh mark by saying that my ideas didn't come from myself and that i had to reference to my class papers as well, notsureifsrs. I might as well reference every single word to my class papers. And as for my structure, will anyone be kind enough to send me a template on how a good ancient history essay should look like so i can improvise in the future? Thanks in advance!