Some Practice SAC Feedback

• Plan: It can stop essays from becoming unwieldy. It can also help to build content.

1. What is your contention in response to the topic question?
2. What are four key supporting ideas that you can use in response to your topic question? These will support your contention, they will explain your position in regards to the question. What evidence will you provide to prove your points? Quotes/incidents. You can write your main points into short sentences that you can use as topic sentences for each of your main paragraphs.

• Ask 'yes, but' or 'no, but' to your initial response to the essay question to ensure you consider different interpretations of the text in your response. Remember, you must show that 'you have an understanding of ways in which the text is open to different interpretations'.
• Refer to the author/editor of the text throughout your essay. This will assist you in incorporating metalanguage into your response. It will force you to talk about the way the text works and how it effects the reader.
• This is a 'text response'. Base discussion around the text, don't be general. 'Explore the topic from the basis of the text'.
• Spell numbers up to one hundred.
• Use single quotation marks.
• Incorporate all quotes into sentences.
• Do not abbreviate in essays or use texting language. It is a formal piece of writing.
• Use upper and lower case letters accurately.
• Use apostrophes accurately, especially when when using them to indicate possession in nouns.