How to Write Better Essays
Planning in the exam Once you’re in the exam the same principles apply: spend the first five to ten minutes writing down your p ...
particular issue exactly right; you can always come back to that after the flow of ideas has stopped. But at that point you may ...
The next stage As we’ll see in the next stage, by planning in this way you can begin to write introductions, conclusions and pa ...
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Introduction As you’ve seen already, by breaking down essay writing into its stages we have been able to isolate problems as the ...
particular the ways we can simplify our use of sentences and words, and what we can do to improve our writing skills to convey o ...
when don’t we? You will be shown simple solutions that will help you avoid all the headaches this can entail. You will also be s ...
176 23 Getting your own ideas down In this chapter you will learn: how to organise your work to allow yourself to write as free ...
are persistent and, if you allow them to come in too early, they will overpower the artist. To avoid this unwelcome intrusion al ...
viewpoint and convince the reader that your viewpoint or perspective is credible’.^1 This doesn’t appear to be a strategy design ...
play devil’s advocate. As a tutor at Oxford makes plain, ‘a good essay should always consider more than one point of view’.^3 Bu ...
not set out to win its case by withholding information that might damage it, nor by using rhetorical devices to manipulate the r ...
It gives structure, yet it suspends judgement and is not driven to prove one preconceived viewpoint. A question is hung over eac ...
182 24 Introductions In this chapter you will learn: why so many of us struggle to write good introductions; how to write intro ...
which you will have uncovered in the interpretation stage. This may involve identifying the main problem or set of problems at t ...
A good introduction is successful because it allows readers to prepare themselves mentally for the journey they will undergo as ...
with informing consumers. Then the structure will turn on the word ‘only’, leaving the writer, in the second half of the essay, ...
we have lost our freedom to choose. We may not be able to stop progress, but we can still choose the type of progress we want. D ...
187 25 Paragraphs In this chapter you will learn: how to write paragraphs to produce a taut, well-argued essay; a simple formul ...
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