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SOME WRITING BAND 6 ESSAY TIPS
I'll admit this, I suck at English, and I still do. But recently, our school finally broadened our understanding with an Essay Writing Workshop thing - which I found pretty useful for mainstream essay writing across most subjects.
Markers sit through tons of garbage essays that they just flick through. Even though most do not admit it, they subconsciously become difficult markers after sitting through papers and papers of Band 3,4 answers.
It was revealed that markers, often skim through bad essays quickly and easily. However, they recognise a good essay when it becomes inevitable to re-read the essay a few times to grasp the full output of the essay.
So how do we achieve such an essay?
First of all practise, go back find a previous essay you have written (from scratch - no copying seriously) and comeback and use some techniques mentioned in this post.
Here is a basic rundown of the most effective essay structure:
Introduction:
-----------------
[Context]
[Thesis]
[Preview]
Your preview describes what you are going to talk about in your essay.
Main Body:
------------
[Point / Topic / Argument / Evidence / Effect ]
[Point / Topic / Argument / Evidence / Effect ]
[Point / Topic / Argument / Evidence / Effect ]
[Point / Topic / Argument / Evidence / Effect ]
Use quotes in argument and evidence - wherever appropriate.
Then finally...
------------------
[Make closing Arguments/Points]
[Finish with impacting statement]
Make sure your final statement of your essay, is short - highly impacting in the view that it summarises and concludes your thesis - without the need to ramble.
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With the structure of the essay aside, lets talk about the essay flair and student knowledge.
Here I am going to show two examples written by two students on the same topic:
Essay Intro 1:
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One's personal views and attitudes expressed towards Cleopatra is a direct consequence of the beliefs of ancient Egypt - and the social values at the time. Cleopatra is unrelentless, and is determined to seduce Anthony in order to manipulate Rome to her own selfish desires. This is evident in the many ancient poetic texts written at later times.
But, this view cannot be justified to represent Cleopatra's true nature because the characterisations put forward can simply be seen as dependent on society's attitudes through the eras and may contain heavy bias as a result.
Not too bad, but heres what the second essay looks like:
Essay Intro 2:
==========
The inherited images that westerners have unrelentlessly painted about the legendary Cleopatra is seemingly derived from the ancient interpretations of her character. From these, it is shown that Cleopatra is little more that a foreign femme fatale, willing to unscrupulously use her feminine wiles to corrupt the incorrigble Anthony, and strike fear into Roman hearts.
This view is largly propounded by Plutarch, Dio and Virgil and Horace, Augustus' poets. However, this superficial view is not balanced, and does little to offer an explanation into the complexities of Cleopatra's character, and provides a wonderful illustrationn of the layers of bias in historical interpretations.
(Both students have the basic grasp on Cleopatra and her character, however, the second student is able to express it much more artistically and with flair - something markers seems to worship.)
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I talked about Essay structure, please look at the following example to give you an idea of the structure of a nice introduction.
[CONTEXT]The inherited images that westerners have unrelentlessly painted about the legendary Cleopatra is seemingly derived from the ancient interpretations of her character.
[THESIS]From these, it is shown that Cleopatra is little more that a foreign femme fatale, willing to unscrupulously use her feminine wiles to corrupt the incorrigble Anthony, and strike fear into Roman hearts. This view is largly propounded by Plutarch, Dio and Virgil and Horace, Augustus' powets. However, this superficial view is not balanced,
[PREVIEW]and does little to offer an explanation into the complexities of Cleopatra's character, and provides a wonderful illustrationn of the layers of bias in historical interpretations.
There are more much to essay writing than meets the eye - such as sentence structures, use of complex naming groups and normalisations to increase flair - using conjunctions and modality - all of which were used in the second essay.
I'll return and make some more posts in the future, but in the mean time, I hope I helped a bit.
Cheers,
I'll admit this, I suck at English, and I still do. But recently, our school finally broadened our understanding with an Essay Writing Workshop thing - which I found pretty useful for mainstream essay writing across most subjects.
Markers sit through tons of garbage essays that they just flick through. Even though most do not admit it, they subconsciously become difficult markers after sitting through papers and papers of Band 3,4 answers.
It was revealed that markers, often skim through bad essays quickly and easily. However, they recognise a good essay when it becomes inevitable to re-read the essay a few times to grasp the full output of the essay.
So how do we achieve such an essay?
First of all practise, go back find a previous essay you have written (from scratch - no copying seriously) and comeback and use some techniques mentioned in this post.
Here is a basic rundown of the most effective essay structure:
Introduction:
-----------------
[Context]
[Thesis]
[Preview]
Your preview describes what you are going to talk about in your essay.
Main Body:
------------
[Point / Topic / Argument / Evidence / Effect ]
[Point / Topic / Argument / Evidence / Effect ]
[Point / Topic / Argument / Evidence / Effect ]
[Point / Topic / Argument / Evidence / Effect ]
Use quotes in argument and evidence - wherever appropriate.
Then finally...
------------------
[Make closing Arguments/Points]
[Finish with impacting statement]
Make sure your final statement of your essay, is short - highly impacting in the view that it summarises and concludes your thesis - without the need to ramble.
=========================================================
With the structure of the essay aside, lets talk about the essay flair and student knowledge.
Here I am going to show two examples written by two students on the same topic:
Essay Intro 1:
==========
One's personal views and attitudes expressed towards Cleopatra is a direct consequence of the beliefs of ancient Egypt - and the social values at the time. Cleopatra is unrelentless, and is determined to seduce Anthony in order to manipulate Rome to her own selfish desires. This is evident in the many ancient poetic texts written at later times.
But, this view cannot be justified to represent Cleopatra's true nature because the characterisations put forward can simply be seen as dependent on society's attitudes through the eras and may contain heavy bias as a result.
Not too bad, but heres what the second essay looks like:
Essay Intro 2:
==========
The inherited images that westerners have unrelentlessly painted about the legendary Cleopatra is seemingly derived from the ancient interpretations of her character. From these, it is shown that Cleopatra is little more that a foreign femme fatale, willing to unscrupulously use her feminine wiles to corrupt the incorrigble Anthony, and strike fear into Roman hearts.
This view is largly propounded by Plutarch, Dio and Virgil and Horace, Augustus' poets. However, this superficial view is not balanced, and does little to offer an explanation into the complexities of Cleopatra's character, and provides a wonderful illustrationn of the layers of bias in historical interpretations.
(Both students have the basic grasp on Cleopatra and her character, however, the second student is able to express it much more artistically and with flair - something markers seems to worship.)
===========================================================
I talked about Essay structure, please look at the following example to give you an idea of the structure of a nice introduction.
[CONTEXT]The inherited images that westerners have unrelentlessly painted about the legendary Cleopatra is seemingly derived from the ancient interpretations of her character.
[THESIS]From these, it is shown that Cleopatra is little more that a foreign femme fatale, willing to unscrupulously use her feminine wiles to corrupt the incorrigble Anthony, and strike fear into Roman hearts. This view is largly propounded by Plutarch, Dio and Virgil and Horace, Augustus' powets. However, this superficial view is not balanced,
[PREVIEW]and does little to offer an explanation into the complexities of Cleopatra's character, and provides a wonderful illustrationn of the layers of bias in historical interpretations.
There are more much to essay writing than meets the eye - such as sentence structures, use of complex naming groups and normalisations to increase flair - using conjunctions and modality - all of which were used in the second essay.
I'll return and make some more posts in the future, but in the mean time, I hope I helped a bit.
Cheers,
