How should I structure my essays?

With History there is so much content and so much to say that it can be hard to work out what to include and what to cut out. Whether you have a word count or a time limit, it is important that your essay is concise.

I would advise covering four main points (your four main arguments) and each of them gets its own paragraph. Each argument should start with your point, for example, if I were arguing that German aggression was responsible for WW1 then I would startmy paragraph with something simple and clear like "German agression was highly responsible for the outbreak of war, owing to..." and then briefly list about two or three reasons. I would then take the first reason and expand it. Be sure to back it upn with specific hard facts and detail, then link back to the question. It is also important to qualify your argument with a counter argument. If I had claimed that German aggression was the most responsible factor in causing WW1, I would then argue that "while it was important, it wasn't actually the main cause because of..."

Finish each argument/paragraph with one sentence to conclude it.

The most important thing to remember is to keep it clear and include relevant hard and soft facts.