Confronting The Essay Plan
Essays don’t write themselves, essay plans do, and even the laziest of students have to accept this. No matter how riveting the essay title (riveting is less likely the feeling, often the essay title is daunting and more than just a little perplexing), the words will rarely flow naturally from your pen onto the page, your brain feeling alive with every detail of the subject matter. On the contrary, producing an essay is all toil and intellectual and emotional self-harm. Yet, the one saviour for all this trauma is so often looked upon as the nemesis; that is the creation of an essay plan
Most students, particularly the less diligent ones (and that is too many of us!) don’t want to indulge in the whole planning thing. Instead, we want our Macbeth or global warming essay to start firing away. That’s the way many students want to get it over and done with. The thought of having to do the mundane task of generating a plan is too much like adding hard work to hard work. However, to produce a plan will not only clear your head of all the junk you might otherwise write in your essay, it will make the construction of ideas less mystifying and arcane to write.
So What Is An Essay Plan?
Basically, an essay plan is a list (or a flow diagram, or a spidergram; whatever form you feel most comfortable using) that sets out all the major points you feel are worth including in your essay. A list works best because all points will eventually have to be prioritised so that you can present an essay that seems ordered by points of most importance. A plan should set out in simple note-terms what the pros and cons of your topic are. So, in an argument essay, where you are giving conflicting views and opinions on one subject matter, you will need to have a list of, say, three benefits and three dis-benefits. Having a plan helps clear your head and allows you to see on the page what it is you are going to write.
Having wrenched out from your brain, a jumbled array of interesting, semi-interesting and downright ridiculous points, your plan helps you sift through the good, the bad and the ugly until you have only the salient points. The order in which you will write each point will also be decided in the plan. As you do this planning, you will see how you change your mind about the overall essay structure. Imagine if you were doing this as you write the essay! It would either be a garbled mess or you would simply give up crossing out swathes of irrelevant paragraphs, leaving them in because it’s a headache to erase them. An essay plan, essentially, is your way to focus your points into something comprehendible, relevant and ordered so it really is important and has to be the bedrock of all your essay writing.
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