What is essential to an essay?

The style of writing and essays can definitely be ambiguous! However, there are some crucial things you need to be doing when writing an essay especially for A level History.Make an argument and keep to it - even if you don't agree personally, make sure you are making a final judgement Relevant evidence - you need to make sure that your evidence for your argument relates to what you are arguingStructure - you need to structure your essay into paragraphs Focus on the question - keep focused and don't waffleConclusion - you must have a conclusion even if it is just two lines. Just write one!There are many more aspects to writing a good essay. However, these are the key essentials that need to be fulfilled to write a History essay at A level.

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