How To Write A Great Essay

How can I plan my essay?

It is very important to plan your essay. So after you have decoded the question and you know what you have to do, then you know where you've got to start researching. Your researching will take the form of reading. So you will read lots of text and you will take references on those texts, because you must keep the references because you will need to put in your essay later. And once you have done all the readings, and you have got all of your notes, the important thing to do then is to start grouping the subjects within your essay, or subsections, or subheadings so that you've got smaller chunks of information. And a good way to do this is to draw some kind of mind map of all of the subsections and then put all of the ideas within each of the subsections, and then you can start building that up. So here you've got all of your subsections, you start building them up with ideas and things you have read, and then finally you have to have a beginning of your essay and you had to have an end of your essay. So that then constitutes your plan and you then start writing in any place, wherever you feel comfortable, you start writing. As a tutor, I have seen many essay where students have obviously not planed, and it just so obvious because it almost becomes a stream of consciousness and you can see a point in the essay where they have just thought of something and they start writing about it and you need to plan. You need to keep your plan, you can alter your plan, but it has to be a coherent plan and you have to tell a story, and not have some sort of rumbling mess that is just falling out of your head that you think about it.