Wednesday, 28 March 2012

Essay Structures

  • Immediately start with a statement to adress the issue presented. for example "Adults do not know how youth behave or who they are." after starting with a statement back it up with an example that would be applicable to the subject.
  • To illustrate: "Adults  do not know how youth behave or who they are, for example is 'rock around the clock' which caused a lot of controversy and created a moral panic."
  • References to key terms and using them not necessary to define them.
  • Use data and events to construct basis of an arguement, also endevor for each paragrapgh to follow PEA.
    • Example: Point- "Adults have social predominance"
    •                  Evidence- "This is England film"
    •                Analysis - Young adults seen as yobs etc this results in society being influenced and youth start to misbehave.
  • Using data from news stories, then relate how bad news is good news. This means the worse the news story, the better news coverage and increased audience reception.
  • Able to link relevant theories to the question, not just repeating a specific one.
  • Better to keep structure simple and straightforward.
  • When referring to collective identity talk about the past, present and future.
  • Rebel without a cause= Past
  • Kidulthood= Present
  • Shank= Future
  • Then discuss how the impact of media effects collective identity this in turns can link to the conclusion of the essay.
  • Continually throughout  compare and contrast broadsheets to tabloids, when referring to collective identity.
  • Good starting points for paragrapghs would be like:
  • Media 
  •  A jouralist etc
  • By doing this furthers enable you to bulid upon a subject for that paragraph.
  • Overall make the objective clear when writing.  

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