Essay Writing Tips

Plan (2)

Have 1 or 2 examples per idea

Order Ideas logically

How to structure body of essay?

3x PEEL paragraphs

Conclusion (2)

Bring together and link

Finish strong and don’t bring in new ideas

AVOID (3)

-Story telling - instead - briefly reference

-Repetition of ideas

-Overly long paragraphs

Error check (10)

Verbs, genders, endings, accents, relative pronouns (qui/que) prepositions, articles, inversions, pronouns

Instead of ‘Je pense que’

‘A mon avis’ ‘J’estime que’

Instead of ‘Beaucoup pensent que’

‘Certains pretendent que’

Instead of ‘probleme’

‘Sujet’ ‘Polemique’ (debate)

Instead of ‘dire’

‘Declarer’ ‘Affirmer’ ‘Pretendre’

Instead of ‘Il y a’

‘Il existe’ ‘on trouve’

Instead of ‘Beaucoup de’

‘Bon nombre de’

Instead of ‘avoir’

‘Posseder’

Strong sentence starters (3)

‘Il ne faut pas oublier que’

‘Il est a noter que’

‘Il est certain que’

Linking phrases (3)

‘Cela dit’

‘Il s’ensuite que’

‘N’oublions pas non plus que’

Emotional appeal

‘Imaginez si vous etiez…’

Contrasting phrases (2)

-D’un cote

-En revanche

Instead of ‘bien’

Favorable

Instead of ‘mauvais’

Nuisible

Instead of ‘interessant’

Fascinant

Instead of ‘important’

Indispensable