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Notes:
Every essay has a topic, a question and a position.
Important Points.
1-. If your essay title in not a question, convert it in a question.
2.- But when you actually write your essay, write the title exactly as your tutor gave it to you.
3.- Don´t focus in the topic, instead, you might be focus in the question.
4.- When you are working in an essay, you need to:
-Read the relevant texts
-Think carefully about the question and the texts
-Decide on your answer to the question

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My Notes:

Every essay has:

- Topic: The general topic of the essay, VERY GENERAL

- Question: Your essay must always be a question, and if it is not, you must convert it.

- Position: Is the answer of the question, you must: Read the relevant texts, think carefully about questions and texts, and decide on your answer to the question

Example:

- Essay’s question: What were the causes of the 2008 financial crash?

- Topic: The 2008 financial crash

- Position:

Strong position: The 2008 financial crash was caused by the financial deregulation programmes of the 1980s

Cautious position: The causes of the 2008 financial crash have not yet been conclusively determined.

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1: What is the title of the essay?
To what extent can Big Brands be called evil?

2: What is the topic of the essay?
Analysis of if big brands being called evil (does they make people’s live better or worse?)

3: What is the question?
To what extent can Big Brands be called evil?

4: What is the author’s position?
He states that big brands shouldn’t be catalogued as evil because, although they have some dubious actions, they mostly bring benefits to the countries in which they stablished.

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1. Where is the thesis statement in this introduction? What is the first word of the thesis statement? What is the last word of the thesis statement?

First word of the thesis statement:
However, this essay will attempt to demonstrate(…)

Last word of the thesis statement:
(…) although some of their practices are certainly dubious

2. According to this introduction, the author will support his / her position by discussing two arguments. What are these two arguments?

First argument:
that accusations made against big brands regarding firstly, the exploitation of workers (…) are not necessarily valid.

Second argument:
that accusations made against big brands regarding firstly, (…) and secondly, the ‘homogenization’ of culture are not necessarily valid

3. In the author’s view, are these arguments strong or weak? Write ‘strong’ or ‘weak’ in each of the boxes below.

First argument – strong or weak?
Second argument – strong or weak?

Both arguments are weak because it states them as “not necessarily valid” instead of denying them at 100%

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What is the title of the essay?
* To what extent can Big Brands be called evil?
What is the topic of the essay?
*Big Brands
What is the question?
* To what extent can Big Brands be called evil?
What is the author’s position?
* The author disagrees with the fact that Big Brands be called evil.

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1. Where is the thesis statement in this introduction? What is the first word of the thesis statement? What is the last word of the thesis statement? Write your answers in the boxes below.

| First word of the thesis statement: However, | Last word of the thesis statement: dubious

2. According to this introduction, the author will support his / her position by discussing two arguments. What are these two arguments?

| First argument: the exploitation of workers

| Second argument: the ‘homogenization’ of culture are not necessarily valid.

3. In the author’s view, are these arguments strong or weak? Write ‘strong’ or ‘weak’ in each of the boxes below.

| First argument – strong or weak? Strong

| Second argument – strong or weak? Weak

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1. Where is the thesis statement in this introduction? What is the first word of the thesis statement? What is the last word of the thesis statement? Write your answers in the boxes below.

| First word of the thesis statement: However, | Last word of the thesis statement: dubious

2. According to this introduction, the author will support his / her position by discussing two arguments. What are these two arguments?

| First argument: the exploitation of workers

| Second argument: the ‘homogenization’ of culture are not necessarily valid.

3. In the author’s view, are these arguments strong or weak? Write ‘strong’ or ‘weak’ in each of the boxes below.

| First argument – strong or weak? Strong

| Second argument – strong or weak? Weak

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Every essay has: a topic, a question and a position.
-The question: sometimes the essay question is not written with a question mark so we can re-write it to understand it better. Remember to convert it back to its original form when writing the title of the essay!
-The position: it is the answer to the question. Often we have to give a more complex or cautious answer.

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1. What is the title of the essay?
“To what extent can Big Brands be called evil?”

2. What is the topic of the essay?
Big brands

3. What is the question of the essay?
To what extent can Big Brands be called evil?

4. What is the position of the author?
That it is not fair to say the big brands are one hundred percent evil, because they bring benefits to communities in various ways and are not fully guilty of having bad practices.

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1. Where is the thesis statement in this introduction? What is the first word of the thesis statement? What is the last word of the thesis statement? Write your answers in the boxes below.

a) First = "However"

b) Last = "dubious"

2. According to this introduction, the author will support his / her position by discussing two arguments. What are these two arguments?

First argument: Big brands bring many advantages to the countries in which they trade.

Second argument: Accusations made against big brands regarding the exploitation of workers and the ‘homogenization’ of culture are not necessarily valid.

3. In the author’s view, are these arguments strong or weak? Write ‘strong’ or ‘weak’ in each of the boxes below.

First argument: Strong

Second argument: Weak

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Every assay has: Topic, question and position.

Topic: What about is the assay?

Question: What am I trying to answer?, every assay starts with a question, TIP: convert the tittle as a question to do not focus on the topic only.

Position: The answer to the question

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Every essay has:

A topic

A question

A position

Topic

Let’s imagine we’re writing an essay with this tittle:

What were the causes of the 2008 financial crash?

What is the topic of this essay?

The 2008 financial crash

Question

Sometimes the essay title is a question, with a question mark(?) at the end:

What were the causes of the 2008 financial crash?

Sometimes the essay title is not a question:

Discuss the causes of the 2008 financial crash.

But every essay starts with a question.

If your essay title is not a question. ‘convert’ it:

Discuss the causes of the 2008 financial crash.

-> What were the causes of the 2008financial crash?

But, when you actually write your essay, write the title exactly as your tutor gave it to you!

Topic and Question

The writer’s task is to answer the question! One common problem:

Question -> X topic

What were the causes of the 2008 financial crash? -> X The 2008 financial crash

Position

When you’re working on an essay, you need to:

Read the relevant texts.

Think carefully about the question and the text.

Decide on your answer to the question.

The answer to the question is called your position.

Question: What were the causes of the 2008 financial crash?

‘Strong’ position: The 2008 financial crash was caused by the financial deregulation programmes of the 1980s.

‘Cautions’ position: The causes of the 2008 financial crash have not yet been conclusively determined.

“Do I need to take a strong position in my essay?”

No!

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1: What is the title of the essay?

To what extent can Big Brands be called evil?

2: What is the topic of the essay?

Big Brands

3: What is the question?

Can Big Brands be called evil?

4: What is the author’s position?

It is unfair to characterize big brands as evil as they bring many advantages to the countries in which they trade, especially developing countries, although some of their practices are certainly dubious.

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What is the title of the essay? To what extent can Big Brands be called evil?
What is the topic of the essay? Big brands
What is the question?  Are the big brands evil?
What is the author’s position? it is unfair to characterize big brands as evil as they bring many advantages

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Essays have: a title, topic, question (but sometimes this question is not always presented as a question.

For example: Discuss the cause of 2008 financial crush. There’s no question here, but I have to convert this sentence into a question, like this: What were the causes of 2008 financial crush? Even if I don’t write this question on the essay, I have to remember the question all the time because it will help to write the thesis statement.

Sometimes the writer focus on the topic more than on the question. This could cause a problem because the writer might not answer the question of the essay.

The writer has a position all the time. This position is called the Thesis statement.

The writer’s position can be strong or cautious. Both positions are correct and the writer is the one who will defend this position.

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1. Where is the thesis statement in this introduction?
In the second paragraph, before the signpost.

First word of the thesis statement: However

Last word of the thesis statement:
dubious

2. According to this introduction, the author will support his / her position by discussing two arguments. What are these two arguments?

First argument:

It is unfair to characterize big brands as evil as they bring many advantages to the countries in which they trade, especially developing countries.

Second argument:

Some of the big brand practices are certainly dubious.

3. In the author’s view, are these arguments strong or weak? Write ‘strong’ or ‘weak’ in each of the boxes below.

First argument – strong or weak?

strong

Second argument – strong or weak?

weak

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Where is the thesis statement in this introduction? What is the first word of the thesis statement? What is the last word of the thesis statement?
At the middle/end.
First word of the thesis statement: However
Last word of the thesis statement: dubious
According to this introduction, the author will support his / her position by discussing two arguments. What are these two arguments?
they bring many advantages to the countries
Second argument: benefits brought by ‘big brands’
In the author’s view, are these arguments strong or weak? Write ‘strong’ or ‘weak’ in each of the boxes below.
First argument – strong or weak? strong
Second argument – strong or weak? Weak

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1: What is the title of the essay?
To what extent can Big Brands be called evil?
2: What is the topic of the essay?
Big brands.
3: What is the question?
Do Big brands make people’s live better or worse?
4: What is the author’s position?
| It is unfair to characterize big brands as evil as they bring many advantages to the countries in which they trade, especially developing countries, although some of their practices are certainly dubious.

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1. Where is the thesis statement in this introduction? What is the first word of the thesis statement? What is the last word of the thesis statement? Write your answers in the boxes below.

First word of the thesis statement:

This (essay)….
Last word of the thesis statement:

…dubious.

2. According to this introduction, the author will support his / her position by discussing two arguments. What are these two arguments?

First argument:

The exploitation of workers is not necessarily valid.
Second argument:

The ‘homogenization’ of culture is not necessarily valid.

3. In the author’s view, are these arguments strong or weak? Write ‘strong’ or ‘weak’ in each of the boxes below.

First argument – strong or weak?

Weak
Second argument – strong or weak?

Weak

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Every essay has:
- Topic. The focus of the essay in general.
- Question. The essay should be written around this. Sometimes this is the title of the essay.
- Position. The answer to the question (thesis statement).

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1: What is the title of the essay?

To what extent can Big Brands be called evil?

2: What is the topic of the essay?
The characterization of “big brands”.

3: What is the question?
To what extent can Big Brands be called evil?

4: What is the author’s position?
“…it is unfair to characterize big brands as evil as they bring many advantages to the countries in which they trade, especially developing countries, although some of their practices are certainly dubious.”

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1. Where is the thesis statement in this introduction? What is the first word of the thesis statement? What is the last word of the thesis statement?

- First word of the thesis statement: “However… ”
- Last word of the thesis statement: “… dubious.”

2. According to this introduction, the author will support his / her position by discussing two arguments. What are these two arguments?

- First argument: “…it will be shown that accusations made against big brands regarding firstly, the exploitation of workers and secondly, the ‘homogenization’ of culture are not necessarily valid.”

- Second argument: “…some of the benefits brought by ‘big brands’ will also be discussed.”

3. In the author’s view, are these arguments strong or weak?

- First argument: Weak

- Second argument: Strong