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ESSAY STRUCTURE Every essay needs a THESIS. ORDER OF IDEAS IN AN ESSAY - Rewrite the question - State your thesis that answers the question - Refer to the text - Summarise your main points || - Point – this is a point that partly answers the question, using key words from it and refers to the thesis - Example - Textual evidence – to prove the point in the statement - Technique – identify - Analysis – here you explain how the textual evidence prove your point - **REPEAT THE STEPS OF ETA TO REVEAL A WIDER KNOWLEDGE OF THE NOVEL** - Link - refer back to the question and the thesis in your final sentence and summarise || Repeat Body 1 structure || - use a superlative to say what your best/most/least/worst example is – use the question to guide you. - Eg. In this case, the most important message concerning love that Shakespeare wants to communicate is… || __Success criteria of a good essay:__ - Correct structure - Use of statement, textual evidence and explanations in paragraphs - Wide range of examples to show an in depth knowledge of the text - Use more than one example to prove a point <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">- Detail and development is consistent throughout the essay <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">- Insight into characters and themes <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">- Makes links between paragraphs <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">- Uses connectives to develop ideas consistently <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">- Developed introduction and conclusion <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">- Wide range of sentence types <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">- Wide range of vocabulary and punctuation evidence <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">- Accurate spelling and grammar
 * THESIS: the main argument that you will be persuading your reader is correct about your text. The thesis will be referred to in the first few sentences of EVERY paragraph.**
 * **Introduction** || **Body 1** || **Body 2** ||
 * Introduction – 1 paragraph:
 * **Body 3** || **Body 4** || **Conclusion** ||
 * Repeat Body 1 structure || Repeat Body 1 structure || <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">- summarise your main points

__Phrases to use to aid you in your essay__ The theme of…is important… In the play __Oedipus the King__… || One important relationship that reveals this theme is… When…. and….fall in love… Shakespeare communicates to his audience that love is… || For instance… Oedipus calls… Jocasta says that… An example to prove this is… Evidence for this is… || ….means that… The phrase….creates the impression… The description of….as…suggests… The reference to…as…shows… When…uses the simile/metaphor/word/phrase…this indicates… By calling…a….this suggests that… This demonstrates… A further reason is that… As well as this… Lastly/the final point is… |||| Taken as a whole… The most striking message about love is… Overall… To conclude… Finally… ||
 * **//To start your essay://** || **//Body://** || **//To introduce textual evidence://** ||
 * The play … is about
 * **//To analyse://** |||| **//To sum up an idea in a paragraph or in the conclusion//** ||
 * Given…