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Academic Essay Essentials - Coggle Diagram
Academic Essay Essentials
STRUCTURE
Introduction
Thesis statement
Main body (approx 80% of word count)
Conclusion
DIRECTION
Point-by-point
STITCHING
words that tie together the parts of an argument, most commonly (a) by using transition (linking or turning) words as signposts to indicate how
new section, paragraph, or sentence follows from the one immediately previous
ANALYSIS
Analysis is what you do with data when you go beyond
observing or summarizing it:
CRITICALLY
REQUIREMENTS
the data—facts, examples, details—that you refer to, quote, or summarize in order to support our essay
CONCLUSION
Don’t simply repeat
Summarise what you have
said in the essay
KEYTERMS
An essay’skeyterms should be clear in their meaning and appear throughout (not be abandoned half-way)
keyterms should be clear in their meaning and appear
STANCE
the implied relationship of you, the writer, to
your readers and subject
how and where you implicitly position yourself as an analyst
ORIENTING
bits of information
explanation
summary that orient the reader who isn’t expert in the
subject, enabling such a reader to follow the argument