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Structures
Mrs Alrawi 2015
Essay Tips
Aim for 2-3 major ideas per essay (depends
on how you want to attack the question)
Know all your poems thoroughly so you can
make judicious choices of textual evidence
Start with a detailed discussion of your
prescribed text, related text comes later
Aim to spend about 15 minutes in the
exam writing about your related text
Essay Tips
Always plan your structure might change
depending on the question and your thesis
Remember this is an essay about a
CONCEPT not an essay about texts your
texts are evidence
The marker doesnt want to read 2 or 3
mini-essays so, in later paragraphs, make
brief remarks comparing/contrasting ideas
from poems in earlier paragraphs
remember: you studied them as a suite
Related text
the interrelationships among texts.
(BOSTES, 2014)
Connect through notions of Discovery; draw
similarities and highlight contrasts
Consider the related texts relationship to
the wider context of Discovery
Themes: self-discovery, discoveries about
relationships, mans place in the world, the
end of days, the natural world, our lifes
work
Linear
Intro
Body
1
Idea 1: Poem 1
Body
2
Body
3
Conc
.
Linear 2
Intro
Body
1
Idea 1: Poem 1
Body
2
Body
3
Conc
.
Linear 3
Intro
Body
1
Body
2
Idea 1: Poem 1
Body
3
Idea 2: Poem 2
Body
4
Integrated 1
Intro
Body
1
Body
2
Body
3
Conc
.
Integrated 2
Thesis, Texts, Overview of Argument
Intro
Body Idea 1: Poem 1 & Related text
1
Body Idea 2: Poem 2 & Related text
2