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By text or by concepts (1 Viewer)
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regardless of what you're writing an essay on (Frontline, King lear, ancient history, sociology...) concepts is the better way to go if you want a strong argument.
Going by texts is probably easier (and those who tell you to go into the exam room with a 100% preprepared essay will advocate this because it is easier to memorise) but it's harder to create a solid argument if you're merely remembered words rather than ideas (which you tend to have a stronger grasp on/more mental leeway anyway).
Going by texts is probably easier (and those who tell you to go into the exam room with a 100% preprepared essay will advocate this because it is easier to memorise) but it's harder to create a solid argument if you're merely remembered words rather than ideas (which you tend to have a stronger grasp on/more mental leeway anyway).
CONCEPTS!!!
i wish our teacher had told us Before the trials
we'd only done a week of frontline before the trials, and they jsut told us to get right into frontline in the essay
when we got our (terrible, shocking, shitty, tragic) marks back, she got pissed becoz we all talked about frontline and not concepts...
grrrrrr
i wish our teacher had told us Before the trials
we'd only done a week of frontline before the trials, and they jsut told us to get right into frontline in the essay
when we got our (terrible, shocking, shitty, tragic) marks back, she got pissed becoz we all talked about frontline and not concepts...
grrrrrr
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just go by argument topics 
Best way to do this is really just to look at the essay question, and jot down your first responses - for example: (this is my typical line of thinking)
"Explore the values raised in The Shipping News"
1) For starters, the author is like this fully hardcore Greenpeace activist, therefore the book stands as a literary "STOP KILLING NORTH ATLANTIC SALMON!" tribute
2) author's belief that local communities should be preserved more, because they're the only ones that properly appreciate salmon in their natural habitat (ie alive rather than dead), hence plotline
etc etc
starting easy then finding techniques to back it is much better than trying to dive straight into "the use of ___ is evident through the author's employment of rahrahrah..."
Best way to do this is really just to look at the essay question, and jot down your first responses - for example: (this is my typical line of thinking)
"Explore the values raised in The Shipping News"
1) For starters, the author is like this fully hardcore Greenpeace activist, therefore the book stands as a literary "STOP KILLING NORTH ATLANTIC SALMON!" tribute
2) author's belief that local communities should be preserved more, because they're the only ones that properly appreciate salmon in their natural habitat (ie alive rather than dead), hence plotline
etc etc
starting easy then finding techniques to back it is much better than trying to dive straight into "the use of ___ is evident through the author's employment of rahrahrah..."