Friday, May 25, 2007

GENERIC ESSAY OUTLINE

  1. Introduction - Rephrase the question
Introduce the texts, author and characters you will be analyising
Explain main idea, concept of response to the question.

Possible ways of starting...use a quote...then begin your introduction.

Include a concept, idea or even dictionary definition.


2 Main body of essay

Divide into ideas

Place them in or relevance or significance to the question

Explain each ideas using PEE (POINT, EVIDENCE, EXPLAIN)

Minimum of one paragraph per point.

Vary sentence types, lengths and openings. Use connective. Add sophistication through subordinate clauses.

KEEP REFERING BACK TO THE QUESTION YOU ARE ANSWERING

IN EACH PARAGRAPH - ADD RELEVANCE AND REFER BACK TO THE QUESTION.

For a comparative essay.....compare and contrast ideas from each paragraph... For example you could alternate ideas between paragraphs.

3 Conclusion


Sum up ideas - Again, relay key points back to the question.

2 comments:

sweetiepie said...

no offence...but this is a terrible way to teach people to write an essay. An essay is not a hamburger. Teaching young minds to write an essay in that way is the reason why english is going down the drain in this country. I get that it is supposed to be "generic" but its sloppy.

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