How do people structure their area of study essays? (1 Viewer)

[matchalolz]

I was just wondering if people mainly write about 3 main ideas for their essay or just two mains ideas??
I was told by my teacher this year to write 4 body paragraphs:
- paragraph 1 = set text (idea 1)
- paragraph 2 = set text + related text 1 (still idea 1)
- paragraph 3 = set text (idea 2)
- paragraph 4 = set text + related text 2 (still idea 2)

However, my teacher last year told me to do this:
- paragraph 1 = set text (idea 1), should be a little bit shorter than the other paragraphs
- paragraph 2 = set text + related text 1 (idea 2)
- paragraph 3 = set text + related text 2 (idea 3)

just curious what everyone else does

 

[SuperMike96]

If you can write more then definitely go for more. If you won't be able to finish it then stick with the smaller model.

 

[Mdyeow]

3 points, one point per paragraph. One text per paragraph.

If you can adroitly combine texts in a single paragraph, go right ahead - but 95% of the time, your analysis will end up confused and murky, and the examiner will give up and just give you an average/less-than-mediocre score because they can't be arsed to make sense of your ramblings.

Do not just write more because you can - in fact, aim to be as concise as possible. Three points is the golden number (as explained in my book). The only exception would be Mod A where you have to directly compare and contrast two texts, in which I did four points (two pairs of complementary points).

 

[strawberrye]

For one prescribed and two related, i had
Paragraph 1: prescribed
Paragraph 2: related 1
Paragraph 3rescribed
Paragraph 4: related 2

 

[buriza]

I did the second option you mentioned, but it really depends on what the student is comfortable with doing. At my school, students did both the first and second option.

 

[Sambam429]

This is what my teacher taught me. In your these corporate two ideas such as family/culture/society/community/school then you write your essay like this:

Body Paragraph 1 - first idea for prescribed text.
Body Paragraph 2 - first idea for sup text 1.
Body Paragraph 3 - first idea for sup text 2.
Then repeat for second idea.
If you only have to use one sup text then just cut out body paragraph 3 for both ideas.

Hope this helps, PM if you have any questions