how do you write a history essay for uni??? Is there a particular style???

Your uni should give you a style sheet.

But since it a humanities subject i reckon you should be using Chicago.

Assuming thats what meant

Not referencing...I mean essay structure...Can I literally do 3 paras on vital and 3 on vulnerable???

I always stick to the good old intro, mainbody , conclusion.

Obviously your mainbody will have a new paragraph eveytime you start a new topic but the original layout is still there.

Not claiming to be an expert but its done me well. Written loads of essays for uni and never got below a 68.

Dammmmmm you clever...and I am gonna end up homelessssss (((

Dammmmmm you clever...and I am gonna end up homelessssss (((

i don't know why but I'm reading sarcasm into that. ahhaa

sorry I was only talking about the bit where you said you never got below 68!!! So far I only have got 59, 61, and 63...2 more results coming next week...

This is my question: Explain what was most vital and what was most vulnerable about the pre-Reformation English Church.
For a history module in a theology degreeeeee xxx

For degree level essay work you probably want to be moving beyond A-level "for and against" arguments and try and take a more holistic approach, and interrogate the essay question itself as well. Also try and develop an individual position on the issue at hand yourself, rather than just paraphrasing the what other people have said to present all sides of the argument, and place try to juxtapose the secondary sources you use (i.e. put them in conversation with each other) rather than just have them as isolated descriptive accounts.

So for example, you should consider the two things not only separately, but together; what was there which was vital that could also be considered vulnerable? How did those two qualities interact if they did coexist for some given factor (was something vulnerable because it was vital, or was it vital because it was vulnerable?). You could also maybe question the notion of "pre-reformation English Church"; can it be argued that there was an English Church in England before the reformation, or was it merely the Catholic church, in England? Was this fact a vulnerability, or somehow vital to the existence/definition of the church there?

Basically try and move beyond thinking about the issues and phrasing of the essay question in black and white terms, and explore what is in the middle of those absolutes. If you write a very rigid essay where it's just "intro, few paragraphs for, few paragraphs against, conclusion" (or in this case, vital/vulnerable instead of for/against) without really integrating these aspects fluently throughout the essay, it probably won't read that well (which may or may not influence the marks you get).

For degree level essay work you probably want to be moving beyond A-level "for and against" arguments and try and take a more holistic approach, and interrogate the essay question itself as well. Also try and develop an individual position on the issue at hand yourself, rather than just paraphrasing the what other people have said to present all sides of the argument, and place try to juxtapose the secondary sources you use (i.e. put them in conversation with each other) rather than just have them as isolated descriptive accounts.

So for example, you should consider the two things not only separately, but together; what was there which was vital that could also be considered vulnerable? How did those two qualities interact if they did coexist for some given factor (was something vulnerable because it was vital, or was it vital because it was vulnerable?). You could also maybe question the notion of "pre-reformation English Church"; can it be argued that there was an English Church in England before the reformation, or was it merely the Catholic church, in England? Was this fact a vulnerability, or somehow vital to the existence/definition of the church there?

Basically try and move beyond thinking about the issues and phrasing of the essay question in black and white terms, and explore what is in the middle of those absolutes. If you write a very rigid essay where it's just "intro, few paragraphs for, few paragraphs against, conclusion" (or in this case, vital/vulnerable instead of for/against) without really integrating these aspects fluently throughout the essay, it probably won't read that well (which may or may not influence the marks you get).

OMG you ARE best and you are KEY just like Liu Yfei...Me so dumb I have never done history before...Thank you so much...I will try to do what you suggest but I'll probably fail because I have no view on what is more important or better