Writing an essay is an art. To excel in that, you need to know the golden rule of history essay writing.
1: Clarity
- Your argument should always be clear, your reader should never be in any doubt about what you’re trying to say. It doesn’t matter, even if you write the complexity of “The cat in the hat”, provided your argument is clear.
- Don’t try and be more complex in your writing style than you feel comfortable with. Often if you use words, you’re uncomfortable with, your meaning comes across rather awkwardly. The sentences don’t flow in quite the same way, it’s a little bit vaguer than you’d like to see, and it can negatively affect your grade. So, try and write with as much clarity as you possibly can, UK University is very particular about clarity of ideas in writing.
2: Sentence Structure
- Try to avoid writing in really long sentences when it comes to sentence structure. Again, this blurs the clarity of your writing. Sometimes when you write a sentence maybe six or seven lines long, it’s quite hard for your marker to get a grip on what you’re trying to say or to follow your argument through those six or seven lines.
- Typically sentences should be very short, and again, this aids clarity, making clear statements one after the other and ultimately leading your reader through your argument.
3. Formal way of writing
Avoid writing in the first person. Remember that this is a formal piece of writing, so words like “I, my, me”, these kinds of things, or even worse, “one”, just don’t write them, just don’t write your argument “I think this”, “one thinks this”.
In a formal piece of writing, it should be much more impersonal and, to express your view, your argument should come across clearly.
You can write it in other ways, saying things like, “The evidence discussed here shows that…” or “From the above, it is clear that…”, or you can show your argument, that it’s your view, your argument, without using those personal pronouns using that kind of approach.
Likewise, try and avoid informal language, this is a formal piece of writing so slang, anything like that, again, try to avoid and always explain yourself clearly.
Suppose, you want to explain a subject that says, I don’t know, why in football matches what was played out the way it was, or why some other game was won or lost by a particular team. imagine that you are explaining to people, who don’t understand the game that well. Walk your reader through your argument just as you would in a social situation being sensitive to what they will know and what they don’t know, probably erring on the side of caution with that, so explain yourself clearly.
4. Quotes
You might think that it’s a good idea to put in quotes, perhaps from a pop song or a movie. I think that there’s a sort of view out there among some UK University students that this is quite a clever thing to do. They mention, “with great power comes great responsibility” from Spider-Man, just don’t do this, it’s not impressive, stick to the academic lines, stick to a UK University rule.
5. Writing Flow
When you write anything, pretty much, from a book to an article, you will often write first something that you call a concept draft. Imagine you’re writing an essay conventionally, so you’re writing, you’ve done two or three lines, and then there’s a factor that you’ve forgotten or there’s a piece of evidence you just can’t follow, there’s a great quote that you know you’ve read.
It’s in there somewhere so you go looking for it. You can’t find it, so you break what you’re doing, you go rooting through your files, perhaps you have to nip off to the library and go and find it, and you do find it, and 15 minutes later, an hour later, whenever it may be, you sit down, you put in that bit of information, but you’ve lost the flow.
You’ve lost the thread of what you were saying, and you try and restart it but actually, it no longer works in quite the same way. You get back into it, you write another five or six lines and again, you come across another roadblock, in the sense that one passage reads well and then it sort of doesn’t quite flow with the next one which then reads well for a bit, but then doesn’t quite flow well with the next one. So, you don’t use that approach, especially to score well in the UK academy.
Conclusion
Learn the Golden rule to excel in writing a History Essay by using the proper structure, writing flow, and solid content value. Following these tips helps UK university students not just to write a wonderful essay, but also to show their unique perspective on historical events.
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