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im good an modern and hisotory but im struggling a lot in english and rmps, someoneone pls help me with buddhism and how to do an essay
Original post by VValking
im good an modern and hisotory but im struggling a lot in english and rmps, someoneone pls help me with buddhism and how to do an essay

Hi, english AH here!
I assume you're talking about the critical essay?
I suck at these but i hope this helps!

You are going to want to memorise quotes, a lot of quotes from your text, whatever works, if it's soon, get your structure right then cram quotes, they are your easy marks. Asking someone to help you with cue cards or something helped me quite a bit.

Start with an introduction that details your text and adress the question. Then give a brief plot summary, as if you were trying to quickly explain your text to your granny in like 3 sentences

Then comes your paragraphs, structure them like these:

Point - Describe the technique used and what it's supposed to do
Context - Explain what is happening around the quote
Quote - Put your Quote here, have some easy marks!
Explain - Explain what the quote means, techniques used and why, be much more in-depth here than the surface-level point. This part is similar to textual analysis, treat it like a mini one.
(o) Quote - Optional, but if you want another point, put another quote that MUST relate to the previous one.
(o) Quote - Optional, explain the quote for extra point
Relate - Tie it back to the question the essay faces or this will get hardly any points, this is one of the most important parts. Don't explain for too long, if you think someone gets the message tie it up in a nice bow and move on

Rinse and repeat until you have 5/6 paragraphs or you're running out of time, then get to your conclusion. This conclusion should tie all loose ends up, address the question and comment on the text.

Hope this helps and good luck!
Reply 2
Original post by manniethela
Hi, english AH here!
I assume you're talking about the critical essay?
I suck at these but i hope this helps!
You are going to want to memorise quotes, a lot of quotes from your text, whatever works, if it's soon, get your structure right then cram quotes, they are your easy marks. Asking someone to help you with cue cards or something helped me quite a bit.
Start with an introduction that details your text and adress the question. Then give a brief plot summary, as if you were trying to quickly explain your text to your granny in like 3 sentences
Then comes your paragraphs, structure them like these:
Point - Describe the technique used and what it's supposed to do
Context - Explain what is happening around the quote
Quote - Put your Quote here, have some easy marks!
Explain - Explain what the quote means, techniques used and why, be much more in-depth here than the surface-level point. This part is similar to textual analysis, treat it like a mini one.
(o) Quote - Optional, but if you want another point, put another quote that MUST relate to the previous one.
(o) Quote - Optional, explain the quote for extra point
Relate - Tie it back to the question the essay faces or this will get hardly any points, this is one of the most important parts. Don't explain for too long, if you think someone gets the message tie it up in a nice bow and move on
Rinse and repeat until you have 5/6 paragraphs or you're running out of time, then get to your conclusion. This conclusion should tie all loose ends up, address the question and comment on the text.
Hope this helps and good luck!

thanks a lot used it today!!!1 think I ****ed up the test but I doesn't matter
Reply 3
Original post by manniethela
Hi, english AH here!
I assume you're talking about the critical essay?
I suck at these but i hope this helps!
You are going to want to memorise quotes, a lot of quotes from your text, whatever works, if it's soon, get your structure right then cram quotes, they are your easy marks. Asking someone to help you with cue cards or something helped me quite a bit.
Start with an introduction that details your text and adress the question. Then give a brief plot summary, as if you were trying to quickly explain your text to your granny in like 3 sentences
Then comes your paragraphs, structure them like these:
Point - Describe the technique used and what it's supposed to do
Context - Explain what is happening around the quote
Quote - Put your Quote here, have some easy marks!
Explain - Explain what the quote means, techniques used and why, be much more in-depth here than the surface-level point. This part is similar to textual analysis, treat it like a mini one.
(o) Quote - Optional, but if you want another point, put another quote that MUST relate to the previous one.
(o) Quote - Optional, explain the quote for extra point
Relate - Tie it back to the question the essay faces or this will get hardly any points, this is one of the most important parts. Don't explain for too long, if you think someone gets the message tie it up in a nice bow and move on
Rinse and repeat until you have 5/6 paragraphs or you're running out of time, then get to your conclusion. This conclusion should tie all loose ends up, address the question and comment on the text.
Hope this helps and good luck!


This is very helpful thanks so much!! My teacher is telling us not to use a structure since it needs to "flow" apparently 😭😭 but I'll definitely try to write an essay with this structure! :biggrin:

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