Think about the following before and after you start your essay.
Go back to your notes on the key words, phrases and ideas; reflect, expand, develop and extend your thinking and your definitions. Look at notes from other students to help you develop your thinking.
Look at the CSP’s in more detail, try to uncover something more than the obvious or the predictable.
Try to structure your essay so that one point links to the next and helps to build up an overall argument rather than a series of individual points. Use a range of connecting / link words (see work document uploaded to the Men’s Health post)
Use more subject specific terminology – ie key media studies words.
Draw upon all key theoretical areas: semiotics, media language, representation, audience theory.
Show evidence or wider reading – my blog, the articles and videos posted etc as well as your own individual research.
Make sure your essay has an introduction and a conclusion.
Look to identify contradictions, confusions and difficulties – this kind of essay is not straightforward or easy, so engage and try to resolve the complications.
Make sure your essay is long enough to really convey your argument and that you use formal language throughout.
