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okay history students let's talk about writing your essay and essay is a particular thing it's not a set of random notes it's not a whole bunch of really impressive information put together in an unstructured way it has structure and it's not an informal exchange of ideas between friends or something you'd send on your phone that's better NSA looks like this it's structured into clear boxes of information that we call paragraphs it refers to other sources it's clearly in response to a topic you can see that from the topic at the top of the page and also it allows room for a reader in the margins to write little comments in response this is an essay so what is an essay an essay by definition is a formal piece of writing that makes a convincing argument about a topic you're taking a point of view and you're selling it it's a complete piece of writing that stands alone and makes sense to the reader by itself we don't have to go off to another book or a documentary or something you've referred us to in order to understand it you've told us everything we need to know to back up your point of view and so an essay is a great way to sell your argument about an issue literally I meant selling an argument it's like you're working in a shop but I don't think anyone who called their shop an argument shop that sounds weird I think we'd be more likely to call it an evidence shop what we're doing is we're selling the best possible evidence in response to a question so what is the question really asked me to write about that's the first step of planning your essay so any good sales person needs to think about what the customer is asking but they asking you to explain are they asking and why did something happen and ask me analyze or evaluate or compare and contrast and they asking do you agree are they asking to what extent they need an answer and they want to buy it from you as a history student you most likely have to respond to argumentative types of questions do you agree or evaluate or to what extent this is asking you to analyze the situation to analyze you do have to do some describing describing events and people but just enough detail to justify your argument not retell everything that happened you will need to consider alternative views so that you don't seem completely one-sided in your presentation and you'll need to refer not to your personal opinion but to the overall weight of evidence that you've looked at in your research we're looking at five to seven paragraphs classically that will be up to you to decide but clearly we need to understand from this what is your thesis you need to take a side on this argument in other words you need to prove your point of view so when you're at your evidence shop the first thing you do you greet your customer you want them to come to your shop and buy your products so you need to start with a great introduction but it's not really a shop it's an essay so it's an introduction this is the first paragraph you're going to write you'll know about introductions and sometimes it's difficult to know where to start you've got so many relevant points and facts and quotes and interpretations that you're thinking about you're not going to use them all on the basis of your research you're only going to use some so think of the introduction as a funnel by the end of the introduction no needs were really clear to your customer your reader where you're going with this so start with interestingly sentence explain what the question or the topic means in your own words and then outline what the plan is so you might have three to main points you're planning to present we need to know what they are by the end of your introduction and you need to state or suggest what your specific argument or your thesis will be if I'm a customer at your shop I'm not going to follow you around your shop unless you tell me where we're going and why as a good salesperson you'll be thinking to yourself how am I going to sell this evidence to my customer I shall explain the issues and sell the evidence well you do it bit by bit part of shop by part of shop topic by topic and you keep the topics separate each of these will become a body paragraph and if we follow the classic teal format then we're expecting that each one of these boxes of information that respond to the question is going to be packaged with a topic sentence on top of the box like a label of what's inside ok guess what something's inside is going to help you answer your question then you'll be explaining the point fully so if the customer says will so wide you'll say well I am explaining the point fully here and then I'm going to prove it with evidence and examples that support my point then finally you need to link this back to the question so that we realize this is actually relevant possibly you could link to the next paragraph but most readers prefer you not to overdo this within each paragraph you're using evidence you're introducing and explaining the evidence that your customer needs to buy from you how to do it well I would suggest that you write as though your reader is generally familiar with the history but has forgotten the details that will remind you that you do need to include specific references to dates places people and sources in order to convince your reader everybody the paragraph should have at least two quotes or two specific paraphrases of information and please do not write this quote as in this quote shows as you can see in this quote we know it's equate because you're using quotation marks just go ahead and do it so for example using a quote in cite it you could use a quote a full quote the whole sentence and in quotation marks and in brackets behind it here's the citation it's the author of the date and the page number or you could place it into context just two years later for example then you introduce the person say what they said and in brackets again author date and page number when you're using evidence and packaging in this way it makes sense to your reader and it's thoroughly convincing because inside each one of those packages is a clear structure of the topic sentence the explanation the evidence and the link then you're packaging something ready for sale once you've completed your body paragraphs then you need to make a final sales pitch the conclusion is where you come back to the counter your customer has these items in bags or boxes but they haven't bought them from you yet you need to make your final sales pitch so with the conclusion again it's like a funnel you're reminding all the different places that you've taken your reader or the different parts of the shop that you've taken your customer to you might want to restate the general context or the debate of the topic the many relevant points that there are summarize the specific points that you've made in your body paragraphs looking back at your topic sentences will help you here and explain how your points actually answered the question which side did you end up agreeing with and if you can finish with the powerful final sentence this is your thesis this is your answer after all and you want to make sure that your reader is very clear about your point of view you want a satisfied customer to walk out of your evidence shop you want them to walk out with neatly packaged evidence and explanations and that they are satisfied that this responds to the question that they came in to ask when the customer looks inside their bag they'll see a receipt at least all the things that they've bought from you your shop when your reader gets to the end of your essay they'll find the annotated bibliography this is a list of your sources where you present the author in brackets the date in italics the title than the place and the publisher very mother in history essay we prefer primary sources to be listed first in alphabetical order and secondary sources second in again in alphabetical order and for each source we want you to briefly explain the source three or four sentences is enough first the origin who was the author of the creator of the source secondly the purpose what's the general nature or the motive of the text thirdly the value how is this source useful to understanding your topic and finally are there any limitations is it incomplete only covering certain years for example or does it give a biased perspective only presenting one side of the story good luck writing your essay