What are some tips for writing good essays?
When it comes to essays, it’s all about PEE. That’s right. Pee. Point. Evidence. Evaluate. If you follow those three steps, you can’t go wrong. The best way forward is to merge one group of PEE into the next. I know when I write essays, I get all over the place with my ideas, and they seem a little jumbled when I reread. Just ensure that you blurt it all out in your first draft. In the second, rework the structure and ensure that it reads as well as possible. Your reader shouldn’t be able to notice your PEE. If you’ve reworked it well enough, it’ll seem as though your evaluation of one point has drawn your argument further along. When it comes to said argument, you cannot lose with a schizophrenic approach. Argue one side. Argue the other. Argue a third, if you can find one. And then decide which you agree with, and explain why. You should have at least one quote reference from a secondary source (at graduate level, though it doesn’t hurt to throw them in at lower level) per 100 words.
