Structuring the Literature Essay for N(A)-Level Literature in English (SEAB 2022) quiz quiz

It lets you write a longer essay

It turns the question into a clear one-line answer and points before you write, keeping the essay on the question

It guarantees full marks

It removes the need for quotations

Read the question carefully and underline its key words

Start writing the introduction immediately

Choose your quotations first

Write everything you know about the text

A list of every device in the text

The first quotation you will use

A one-sentence answer to the question that takes a position and gives the essay direction

A summary of the plot

Copy the question word for word

Turn the question into a statement of what you think and how you will prove it

Write a question of your own

Describe the setting

Plot, events, ending

Practise, edit, evaluate

Paragraph, example, exam

Point, evidence, explanation

The explanation, where you analyse how the words create their effect

The point

The evidence

All parts earn exactly the same

To fill space

A summary of the chapter

A short quotation that supports the point and gives you words to analyse

Your personal opinion with no text

To write it as a separate sentence on its own

To quote a whole paragraph

To put the quotation in the conclusion

To weave the short quotation smoothly into your own sentence

The writer makes the room feel unwelcoming, describing it as 'cold and bare'.

The room is described. 'It was cold and bare.'

Quote: 'cold and bare'. End of quote.

There is a quotation about the room.

Summarise the whole plot

List every quotation you will use

State the thesis so the essay answers the question straight away

Give the author's biography

Pulling the argument together

Confirming the thesis

Leaving a final clear impression

Simply repeating the introduction or the question word for word

To check your spelling

To make sure the point you are about to make actually helps prove your answer

To count how many words you have written

To find a new quotation

Each part stands alone with no link

You write the conclusion first and ignore the thesis

The plan gives the points, the thesis states the answer, each PEE paragraph proves a point, and the intro and conclusion frame the thesis

You quote throughout and never make points