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Essay Writing Tips: Command Terms & Understanding the Question

Learn to decode command terms, understand essay questions, avoid common mistakes, and plan your essay effectively using linear, mind map, or grid methods. Avoid personal opinions and ensure a balanced argument with multiple perspectives. Example topics include Greek mythology analysis.

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Essay Writing Tips: Command Terms & Understanding the Question

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  1. Essay Writing Tips

  2. COMMAND TERMS & UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION • Which command term is used?  What is the question asking you to do? • E.g. Analyse, evaluate, compare and contrast • Underline key words and have a clear idea of the parameters of the topic. • E.g. Evaluate the success of Stalin’s domestic policies in the period 1928-1941. • Take note of dates • E.g. Evaluate the success of Stalin’s domestic policies in the period 1928-1941.

  3. Glossary of Command Terms

  4. 2. PLAN YOUR ESSAY • You can do this in a variety of ways, including: • a) Linear • b) Mind map • c) Matrix/Grid/Table

  5. Mind Map

  6. Linear

  7. Grid

  8. Avoid • using personal pronouns E.g. “I think that…” • colloquial language/emotive language/overly subjective statements E.g. “Stalin was a really bad guy…” • Abbreviations. E.g. AIII (write Alexander III instead)

  9. Avoid giving a one-sided interpretation of the question- you must consider multiple perspectives and have balance in your argument.   • This might be through discussing different schools of thought, using historiography or offering alternate views of events (and their causes, course and consequences)

  10. Our topic • First we start with a topic : Greek mythology • Then create our question : Dans quel mesure est-ce que les mythes Grecques sont importants pour les Hellènes pendant l’époque d’avant notre ère?

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