Friday 13 February 2015

Essay Planning – Essay Sandwich



A good essay is like a good sandwich or burger analogy



Top slice of bread represents your introduction, brief, succinct and briefly focused on how you will answer the question.

The middle of the sandwich e.g. the meat or salad represents the main body of the essay (which is also the bulk of the essay). – AO1 KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING




The special sauce (as I like to call it) or the dressing or ketchup represents the evaluation, analysis and assessment of the question at hand (this should be embedded throughout the essay, however will take development throughout the length of the course). A02 – EVALUATION AND ANALYSIS & A03 –RESEARCH METHODS- ISSUES OF VALIDITY ETC… (ONLY FOR PSYCHOLOGY)/sociology

The bottom slice of bread represents the conclusion, again brief, succinct and you pull together all the key themes you have discussed and draw to a close your answer to the question at hand.

It essential that your plan all your essays before your complete them, as if you fail to plan, you then plan to fail (excuse the pun).




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