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Where to Start: Understand the Question
 
     

Understand Question

It is very important that you read and understand the question because failure to do this will mean not providing a suitable answer and poor performance. You have to follow these basic steps.

  • read and understand what information the question requires you to provide and how to do this.
  • pay particular attention to and underline direction/key/action words and check their meaning to clarify your thinking. These words tell you what to do. Let us look at some of the keywords you are most likely to find in the essay questions.
  • Create a mind map of the essay question
  • Brainstorm ( ask yourself what you know about the topic or question
  • Establish a tentative structure (this is how you think your ideas and information will flow and paragraphs follow each other; do not worry much at this stage, this is bound to change as you go along and as you research).

 

 
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