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Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Tuesday, 4 Jan 2011, 20:04

Have you develop the right writing style?

One that answers the question, with a clear introduction and conclusion (the stem) and that makes six or so fully developed points?

Like this?

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After Mr D Rhodes, my RGS Geography Teacher. He was known of course as 'Dusty Roads.'

Or does it look more like this?

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From Essay Style Visualised

Where you've answered the question, but only have one good point to make.

Or like this?

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From Essay Style Visualised

Which I call the plagiarised essay ... you've bought it off the shelf (or lifted in from someone else's garden).

Or this?

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From Essay Style Visualised

Not a dead or dying essay, but one overly skewed in its opinions (whether left or right).

Or this?

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From Essay Style Visualised

Packed with a plethora of ideas and references, but developing no idea fully enough.

Or this?

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From Essay Style Visualised

A few good ideas about something, but all irrelevant to the question. (Seven Twitters in a row doesn't an essay make).

Or this?

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From Essay Style Visualised

An exotic piece of writing that misses the point entirely but is a good read all the same.

Or even this?

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From Essay Style Visualised

In which the author has got caught up in the Christmas theme.

Enjoy! More in Picasa (which I think it is open to all comers).

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