session 2.07

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Exercise: brain-map
list main ideas for your essay, work in pairs 20m max
Formulate a question that indicates not only the topic but also the focus of your essay. This question will be the title of your essay.
Aim: to get key words that will guide you in your research and your reading/writing: concepts, approaches, authors, theories, ideas, images, everything counts. To articulate the main question/issue that your essay will address.

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Presentation> structure of the essay: the importance of a plan
See attached examples : essay plan 1 and 2
Aim: importance of devising a plan before your star reading/writing
Essay outline

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Discussion of isses arising from the brain-map and the presentations

essay plan example 1

essay plan example 2

suggested reading: get a good study/write handbook. these are available from the uni’s libraries:

Northedge, Andy: The good study guide /. Milton Keynes : Open University Press , 1990. harrow library

Chambers, Ellie: The arts :The good study guide. Milton Keynes : The Open University , 1997. harrow library

Peck, John, 1947-: Write it right :. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. regent/marylebone libraries