EPT
Essay #2
| Blogs > rushz0rz |
|
rushz0rz
Canada5300 Posts
| ||
|
Sfydjklm
United States9218 Posts
 I just feel that a facts essay is way too boring and pointless, always wrote if i felt my writing would be interesting for people to read  | ||
|
Chef
10810 Posts
General tips are.... Don't use words like "I," "me," "think," "opinion." Get down to the facts right away (don't set a scene, except maybe in the introduction). Be careful about just giving the person a history lesson... You're supposed to be analyzing it, not regurgitating it. GL GL. Hope you have an original point a view, because that usually gets extra points with teachers who are bored of reading the same essay 10,000 times. Happy Birthday Sfydjklm But the beginning of your posts contradicts the end  | ||
|
fight_or_flight
United States3988 Posts
1) Don't mention the names of individual people. No one person was responsible for the events of history, it was caused by things like economics, technology, etc. Individuals should be more of an afterthought. 2) Perhaps organize things on more of a major-events-based approach rather than a chronologically-based approach, with those events not being the actions of individuals, but the causes of those actions and the reasons why they succeeded. | ||
|
Dknight
United States5223 Posts
| ||
|
Lemonwalrus
United States5465 Posts
 | ||
|
Chef
10810 Posts
1) Don't mention the names of individual people. No one person was responsible for the events of history, it was caused by things like economics, technology, etc. Individuals should be more of an afterthought. Bad advice. Profs, especially sociology and history, LOVE to hear credit of individual names. It's something that pisses me off, but it's something you have to do. You lose credibility if you don't name the names, and overall it makes you essay less convincing, and more sounding like you only have a very general idea of what happened. That said... It definitely depends on the topic, for the validity of that statement... There's no point in naming the names of some random soldier if there's no one notable to mention, but you can't write a essay about the communist revolution in Russia if you don't name Marx and Lenin. You can't talk about any war really, if you don't name the leaders of both sides. | ||
|
Chef
10810 Posts
On October 20 2008 07:07 Lemonwalrus wrote: Idk, I feel that the best history writings are narrative. Sounds like a crap reason to lower your grade imo. Now I have to get back to squeezing the entire history of Greece into 5 pages using only primary sources. It's an essay. He has a thesis, he's trying to prove it. He's not telling a story here. | ||
RaGe
Belgium9942 Posts
| ||
|
Ecael
United States6703 Posts
I'll probably PM/email more detailed response. | ||
|
GrayArea
United States872 Posts
| ||
| ||
