Essay Structures (1 Viewer)

[honky tonk]

From early Year 10, we have been taught certain rules about essay structures, such as citing texts correctly, naming all texts and composers in the introduction, naming all texts and composers in the conclusion, using specific synthesis between texts, etc.

My problem is this: in the exemplar scripts shown in the Standard Packages, some of the 20/20 essays did not obey any of these rules! Some mention their texts and composers just once, as well as synthesising with nothing more than "as well as this, blah blah"..

Is it just our school that gets taught these rules? Should I be focusing more on adding flair and sophistication to my writing? What the buggary is going on??

 

[Bird Monkey]

well i was taught a certain form to essays as well, and in the past its always worked for me..but in trials i found there were hardly any essay formats needed as most questions asked for interview, speech, feature article etc. formats instead...so id be focussing on flair and sophistication,

 

[anti]

From personal experience essays in the HSC are not necessarily as structured as an essay written for, say, postgrad study. If you feel more comfortable writing essays with the techniques you mentioned I wouldn't try to make you change your style.

However note that essays don't have to be entirely formal - depending on the context you can always use the third person in your responses (or "we can see that.." rather than "the audience is made aware of..").