Writing practice essays (1 Viewer)

[d-alarmclock]

Just wondering, about studying for English, I hear everyone is writing practice essays on belonging. I was wondering, how do you write an essay on general terms? I mean, how can you prepare an essay if you don't know what the topic is?

Also, what paragraph structure do you use? TEEL, PEEL SEXY, anything else?

Thanks

 

[Absolutezero]

If you're after a structure, follow the guide in this thread:

http://community.boredofstudies.org/english-4/advanced-english-essay-writing-guide-257183.html

You can prepare for essays in two ways: 1. By focusing on the areas that stay consistent throughout your analysis of belonging 2. By finding past papers and using the questions in that.

 

[such_such]

Teachers say memorise different thesises and quotes then adapt them to the question. But from personal experience, in exam periods this is extremely difficult unless you have LOTS and LOTS of practice. This is too avoid people memorising their essays. But this method isn't for me.

For belonging, I would have a generic thesis + quotes then expand on it based on what the question asked. The minimum I got was 12/15 and that's kind of because I forgot parts of my essay. Get your teacher to mark lots of your essays as well! No point using a crap essay again and again. This is just a suggestion and it worked for me

 

[hayabusaboston]

I did NOTHING in advanced, and I mean nothing, during the whole year, and i still scrambled an 84 for my hsc mark ^_^

 

[Kiraken]

If you do go the "memorise generic essay" route, make sure to have a few extra paragraphs up your sleeve that you can use for more targetted questions

 

[d-alarmclock]

Thanks guys! And just wondering, how many quotes for each text should you be memorising?