Ms Eales Guide to

Essay writing!!!
ENG 202

Its

important our essay is follows a clear

structure
We use HEAPS of evidence to back up
ALL ideas.
We write a clear INTRODUCTION
We write at LEAST 3 main, detailed
paragraphs
We summarise our ideas in a
CONCLUSION.

What is important?

It

is important that you break the

question into parts.

Identify

KEY WORDS in the question that

you will need to focus on

How do we begin to answer a

question?

What are key words?

Basically

an overview of what you are

going to cover in your essay.
Follow this simple format and you will
succeed in writing a great intro:
T Topic statement
A Author
K Key words from the question
O Outline what you will cover in your
essay. (3 Things).

What is an introduction??

Topic
statement
Author

Keywords
(from the
question)
Outline

So what does this TAKO look like??

In

pairs, have a read of this introduction.

Identify

things this writer does well and

some things he/she could improve to
make this introduction better.

Analyse how structure was used to reveal

the writers purpose in the written text.

Question Find Key words.

War is a violent display of human nature. In the

poem, Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen
uses structure to reveal the reasons behind why
he wrote such an emotive poem. The poem has
four stanzas, each showing different aspects
and realities of WWI. The first depicts what it
was like for soldiers, the second and third place
the reader on the frontline and the fourth begs
the audience not to believe the old lie.

Task Identify the TAKO

Your turnmake your own TAKO

Topic sentence
E Example, evidence
D Details ( why, context, effect,
purpose)
S So what?? (link to society then or
now, impact on reader, importance)

Writing body paragraphs

The first stanza of the poem describes the impact of war on

soldiers physical moral and appearance. The simile, Bent like old
Beggars implies that soldiers fighting in the war appeared
scruffy, dirty and homeless. The connotations, emphasized by the
use of alliteration associated with a beggar reveal a sense of
despair that the soldiers would have felt. The entire first stanza
focuses on the soldiers as being like the walking dead, this is also
through men marched asleep.. The use of personification of the
gas shells disappointedly fell.. implies that war was tiresome
and exhausting for all involved. This is important as Owen is
aiming to reveal to the reader the utter helplessness of the
soldiers and degalmourise any previous glorious images of a
soliders which had been so readily accessed to the public through
propaganda.

What does TEDS look like?