Anyone for an Essay?:

Anyone for an Essay?:

Now what?

Note for Exam people: GCSE/AS/A level.

Andrana, if you are reading this – well done! Andrana is one of my best students ever. She went to an ordinary Comprehensive in UK. She was desperate for me to teach her how to write an essay for her exam. I thought she was being modest when I arrived at her house to coach her.
Andrana was obviously bright. She was also very anxious to succeed both in her exams and in her life.
The trouble was that her teacher at school never actually explained how to write an essay. So Andrana had no idea!
When you can do something – cook scrambled eggs, drive a car, play football – it is so easy to assume that everyone (except terminally stupid people) can do it too. Essays like, yes, scrambled eggs, need to be taught.
So this site is for that.
It is relevant. It is simple to work.
It is full of traditional and well tried ways.
So I hope that you begin to share my passion for writing as you set forth on your essay.

This is from the AQA site:

4.3.2 Original writingStudents will produce one piece of original writing based on one of the following three areas:The Power of PersuasionThe Power of StorytellingThe Power of Information
The power of persuasiona piece of investigative journalisma speech delivered on a controversial topica letter to an MP.The power of storytellinga short storyan extract from a biographya dramatic monologue.The power of informationa piece of travel journalisma blog focusing on social issuesa piece of local history.

To date, the blog which you are reading has given six very helpful hints as to how to start your piece of writing.
It has also given over 20 different ways of starting a paragraph and how to set about filling that paragraph up with interesting and compelling sentences.
Finally it has given three ways to finish your piece.
Whatever you happen to choose to write about, these hints will give you a good start and set you apart fom the rest of the pack.



Go for it!