Essay
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Understanding Essay Titles
Learn about understanding essay titles and how to do so. This course is ideal for intermediate learners.
Introduction
Essay titles contain clues which show you what the examiner or marker is looking for. In this session we will be learning what those clues are and how to look out for them.These clues include:
· Topic or content words which are words or phrases that tell you the main subject of the essay
· Limiting or focus words which are words that tell you which aspects of the subject you should write about
· Direction words which are words that tell you what you need to do
You will learn
- Understanding essay titles
- Analysing essay titles
- Picking apart the title
- Focusing on the title
- Making notes
- Using the title
- Key words in titles
Essay Writing Process
Learn about the essay writing process and how to successfully and effectively use it. This course is ideal for intermediate learners.
Introduction
The essay writing process consists of 6 parts that lead on from one another:1. Analysing the question
2. Generating Ideas
3. Research
4. Planning
5. Drafting
6. Editing
Analysing an essay title has 4 stages:
1. Pick apart the title. Look for:
a. Topic or content words or phrases that tell you the main subject of the essay
b. Limiting or focus words that tell you which aspects of the subject you should write about
c. Direction words that tell you what you need to do
2. Focus on the title
3. Make notes – write down any questions that are prompted by the title
4. Use the title – keep checking the exact wording and refer to the essay title in your introduction and conclusion
You will learn
- The process
- Analysing the question
- Generating ideas
- Research
- Planning
- Drafting
- Editing
Quotation Marks
Learn about quotation marks and why and when you should use them. This course is ideal for intermediate learners.
Introduction
Quotation marks can also be referred to as:· Speech marks
· Inverted commas
Question marks can be single or double.
They always come in pairs – open quotation marks and close quotation marks.
Quoting means repeating exactly what someone has said or written.
Whenever you use a quotation you must use quotation marks. This is important as it shows the words are not your own (and will stop you being accused of plagiarising).
You will learn
- Quotation marks
- Why you should use quotation marks
- Using single and double quotation marks
- Use of quotation marks
Punctuation
Learn about punctuation and all the different punctuation marks. This course is ideal for intermediate learners.
Introduction
Capital letters are used for a number of different purposes which are the following:· At the beginning of a sentence. For example: The dog barked loudly (the capital letter is at the beginning of the word ‘the’).
· For the personal pronoun ‘I’. For example: Yesterday, I went the zoo (the capital letter has been used the for the word ‘I’).
· For proper nouns (specific names of people, places and things). For example: Rashid went to Paris in April (the words Rashid, Paris and April all have capital letters at the beginning).
Full stops are used in the following ways:
· To mark the end of a sentence. The full stop marks the end of the sentence, unless a question mark or exclamation mark is being used instead.
· To indicate an abbreviation. For example: 6 a.m. (The full stop is used between the ‘a’ and ‘m’ and after the ‘m’.
· For ellipsis (three dots at the end). For example:
o As Shakespeare said, “If music be the food of love …” (The ellipsis is at the end).
o “You know how I feel about that…” (The ellipsis is at the end).
You will learn
- Capital letters
- Full stops
- Commas
- Apostrophes
- Question marks
- Exclamation marks
- Colons
- Semi-colons
- Quotation marks
- Hyphens
- Dashes
- Parentheses
- Brackets
Prepositions
Learn about prepositions, what it is and examples. This course is ideal for intermediate learners.
Introduction
Prepositions can be used to indicate time.The mostly commonly used prepositions of time are at, on and in.
These are used in the following ways:
· At is used to indicate specific times for example, the train is due at 11.45 p.m.
· On is used to indicate days and dates for example, my mother is coming on Monday.
· In is used to indicate nonspecific times (during a day, month, season or year, for example, he likes to play in the morning.
Prepositions of place, some locations do not require a preposition, including:· Downstairs
· Downtown
· Inside
· Outside
· Upstairs
You will learn
- What a preposition is
- Preposition of time
- Prepositions of place
- Preposition positions
Essay Structure
Learn about essay structure how to use it. This course is ideal for intermediate learners.
Introduction
All essays should have three parts:
- Introduction
- Main body
- Conclusion
A good essays introduction should:
● Tell the reader how you are going to answer the question
● Define or explain any specialist terms in the essay title
● Set the scene for the rest of the essay
● Give a brief outline of the key issues or points you are going to cover in the essay, in the order you are going to cover them
● Grab the reader’s interest so they want to read more
You will learn
- Essay structure
- Introductions
- Main body
- Paragraph structure
- Conclusions