Foundation (focus)
The introduction will tell the examiner exactly how good the essay will be.
- Choosing the Global Issue
- Clear, defined, explicitly stated
- Both local and global
- Specific but also broad
- Thesis Statement
- Clear, concise
- Must describe exactly what you will be writing about
- Introduces the main argument
- Topic Sentences
- Help orient the reader
- Mini intros to each paragraph
- Each paragraph contains an idea
- Each topic sentence should develop the overall thesis
- Shows organization and cohesion
- Connectors
- Shows a linking of ideas–improves cohesion
- Shows a relationship between ideas and overall argument
- Academic Register
- Formal register combined with terminology
- Examiner should be able to tell it’s an english essay rather than a glopo essay
- Writers Craft
- What and the why
- EXploring why an artist/writer makes the choices they do
- Why they do what they do?
- Explore the purpose of the text
- How literary techniques help explore the global issue
- Effect on Audience
- What was intended and unintended
How does Dylan make use of the literary features to explore the main ideas within the song?