1. Top tips for introductions and conclusions
1. Answer the question (be very clear on what the question is actually asking
you – you may even need to re-write it in your own words). Use key words
for the question to show that you are continually focusing on it.
2. Bring in the other poems specifically – don’t be vague (but also don’t go off
topic)
3. No big quotes in the intro or conclusion (but a one or two word quotes can
look slick)
4. Get big ideas into both – what is the writer doing here and then, in the
conclusion, were they effective?
5. Consider the author’s purpose in the whole collection
6. Plan everything – nothing is superfluous (unnecessary)
7. Not too many sub-clauses or words in parenthesis (pairs of commas) as it
makes the argument very hard to follow
8. No analysis in the intro or conclusion
9. Clumsy connectives – (and andand which and when all in one sentence!)
10.
Don’t use words that you don’t know (you look like a wally)
11.
Have a strong ending – link back to the intro
12.
Careful when using a lot of different names and pronouns – is it clear
who you are writing about…
13.
Avoid repeating words.
14.
Keep is fairly brief – are you saying what you’re going to be writing
about and do you show an understanding of the poem (and big ideas). In
the concl – do you sum up what you’ve said (key ideas in your argument)
and evaluate on what the writer was doing in the poem.