subheadings (1 Viewer)

[babydoll_]

for people who are doing critical responses, are you using subheadings to divide up your work into sections? i want to do that for clarity but my teachers told me not to. they said "change each heading into the topic sentence for the next paragraph" but i dont want to do that. any suggestions??

 

[Jinglebell]

i haven't decided about subheadings yet...although i think it may be necessary in order to make it flow, since i have pretty drastic topic changes...i know a friend of mine is kinda doing hers in chapters...

i don't see why there should be a problem, 4500 words or whatever is pretty long to just have straight out, you'd think efforts to make the structure clearer would be welcomed...

 

[babydoll_]

Yeah i know ay? But one of my teachers is a marker, and shes like "no dont do it"... but i think it would make everything clearer... not to mention cut down on words, of which there arents enough.. so yeah boo you miss! hahaha

 

[anti]

Hmmm... maybe have a look at last year's high scoring ext 2 works?

 

[babydoll_]

i did. no subheadings there

 

[MiuMiu]

Yeah don't do subheadings do topic sentences cos its an essay not a report and the markers will see this as a weakness in your ability to structure

 

[Jinglebell]

one of the critical responses on the 2001 showcase had subheadings...

i'm still torn, myself, coz i know it's an essay and all that but mine is almost like 3 'mini-essays', each addressing a different topic (race/religion/gender) and using a different shakespeare lay and element of 'the simpsons'. right now, without some sort of subheading for each section it just seems really jarring going from one section to the next.

 

[babydoll_]

yeah same... it links a little but it seems a bit stilted just moving from section to section

 

[chip]

i think year 12 is right i dont think i'd do sub headings

 

[blah says she]

gah, something else to stress about.. i was going to do sub headings cos i couldnt find any other way for it to flow on and make sense

 

[babydoll_]

well for now - dont.