25/08, 26/08 Part #1: 25/08 - Detective With Essays

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This week began with a class from Sonali Ma'am. She went deeper into the classification of essays and taught us how to deconstruct essays into graphic organisers to simplify them. Making graphic organisers for essays helped me analyse the structure and function of specific types of essays. She also got us to do worksheets where we classified and deconstructed essays into pre-made graphic organisers. We also made our own organisers for sample texts, which was surprisingly a very stimulating exercise. 

This session was a hands-on learning experience. I learned how to map out an essay to figure out exactly what the essay needed. This is also great practice for writing future essays. Making graphic organisers before getting into writing an actual essay is a very efficient method to ensure that one's essay is driven forward in the way that it should be. It would also help prevent redundancy to an extent. The session provided very valuable insights to my academic writing perspective.

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