TERRIBLE TEACHER - Higher English Folio Help

My English folio is due in a week. If I’m being fully honest, it’s not my best piece of work. I’m really confused on how to make it persuasive and am so burnt out after prelims that I don’t have the energy or time to work on it properly. To make matters, my English teacher is hardly in and when she in, does not teach us anything. We’ve not had a single lesson on writing a good portfolio essay! I’ve asked her for some feedback and she said everything is looking great but unfortunate she says this to everyone and I know deep down it’s not a good essay. This definitely isn’t a case of me being too hard on myself - I’m genuinely so anxious about the looming deadline and I know my content is rubbish. I’ve had look at the SQA Understanding Standards website and was surprised to see what seemed to be pretty amazing essays getting barely half marks or lower which has made me more worried that I’ve not meeting the expectations. I am desperate to make my essay absolutely perfect before it is sent off next week. I’m predicted an A this year but am afraid this will bring my mark down. What can I do? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

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Caitlinxxc

what is the topic of your essay? is it informative or creative?

Reply 2

thankful-shrimp

It’s a discursive essay on the perception of time but I’m thinking on changing it to underage drinking

Reply 3

Caitlinxxc

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by thankful-shrimp

It’s a discursive essay on the perception of time but I’m thinking on changing it to underage drinking

i think the perception of time could be a good idea, you don’t want to write about something too popular because there are loads of topics that already get written about a lot. Make sure your essays within the word count, use evidence like quotes/statistics/real life examples if you need to back up any points, you probably already know with discursive you shouldn’t really be giving your personal opinion on the topic. If you were to change it to underage drinking you could either it argumentative and give your own opinion (why its bad) or discursive so you could talk about different peoples views on it. I think if you’re going to do underage drinking you should focus on a specific area of it that may not be commonly brought up in arguments like the health effects or peer pressure when it comes to drinking. Or you could argue for it and that the drinking age should actually be lowered? For discursive you should have at least 4 points of argument (for and against the topic)
Anyway that was a pretty long rant but i hope that helps, my higher argumentative essay done well last year so if you have anymore questions i could try answer them!

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