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Key Points for Writing Practise Essays

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Here are five top tips to help students improve their practice essays:

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Ingredients

  • Students should make sure their essays include the key ingredients of a good essay.
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Prepare

  • Prepare high-quality practice paragraphs and full essays in advance.
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Plan

  • Planning introductions, main body paragraphs, and conclusions, may help students, in addition to using my structures and examples if they're stuck.
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Relating questions

  • Students may need to think carefully about which questions are similar to each other, which allows students to use a similar response.
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Widen the meaning

  • Practising widening the meaning of the question can help students play to their strengths.

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Thank you for completing our CPD course. We hope you've enjoyed it and that it has given you some ideas for your own classroom.

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