Introduction:

• Introduce the text, name the author, explain the bigger ideas and some general specifics of time, place, characters, and events that will help your marker understand where your analysis is coming from
• Address both parts of the question and outline what points you will make in each body paragraph to answer the question. Use words from the questions, and be as specific as possible. Don’t use words like ‘ideas’, instead name the idea, for example: ‘ambition’.

Body paragraphs:

• Start each paragraph by stating the point you’re trying to make. Ensure it links to both parts of the question.
• Quote an example to support this point.
• Explain the quote in terms of how it provides evidence to support or prove your point.
• Expand on this by explaining why this is important to the text as a whole. How does this example show us what the author intends for us to understand?
• Link to next paragraph

Conclusion:

• Synthesise the points you have made, and reinforce how they prove your understanding of the authors craft. Using words from the question, clarify the main point you are making to address the question. Provide the reader with something to reflect on – food for thought, an example from another text, or even from life (but be accurate and detailed, generalisations are of no value)

What my essay should have

*use more than 1 quote in each paragraph*

*answer whole question in every paragraph*

1. Introduce text as a whole. eg who the text was written by and what it is about

2. Address whole question, use words of question. “by using this is shows us…”

3. Address symbol “the symbol of blood is important in conveying Shakespeare’s idea of Blood” Answer question

4. Quote must be evidence of what you are trying to convey. Has to link to question

5. When explaining explanations have to advance idea of ambition. Need to sound like significant connections speech