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Understanding Society Essay plan work sheet

This work sheet is intended to help you draft your essay plan and more generally

prepare for the essay. The idea behind the essay plan is it is an opportunity for you

to get some feedback on your understanding of the ideas of the unit and your

academic writing skills from your tutor before you write your essay. Having said that,

it is also a marked assessment which means higher quality essay plans will get

higher marks

Before you start on your essay plan you will need to pick which of the three essay

questions you want to answer. They are on page 10 of your Learning Guide. Once

you have done that you should check the essential readings for the essay which will

be available on vUWS and in the Library.

Review the Marking Criteria

You will find the marking criteria for the essay on page 9 of the Learning Guide. It

has four sections

 Breaking Down the Question

 Key Points

 Conclusion

 Research and Referencing

You need to cover all of these criteria in your essay plan. Review the Marking

Criteria as you are working on your essay plan and before you submit it to make sure

you have covered all the sections. This work sheet will use these sections to guide

you through the essay plan.

Section 1. Breaking down the Question

At this stage you may or may not have checked or read the essential readings.

Some students like to break down all three questions to help them decide which

question to pick. It is up to you if you want to do this. Breaking down the question is

really about working out what sociological ideas and concepts the question is about

and what it is asking you to do with them. Having a clear understanding of the essay

question is an important step to answering it.

The following information should be in this section of your essay plan:

i. What is the key sociological concept or idea the question is using? This is one

of the most important parts of the question. You need to know what specific

idea or concept from the unit the question wants you to use. You should

provide a definition or explanation of the concept to show you know what it is

and can explain it. Make sure you provide a citation for the resource where

you got this definition from (probably your text book).

ii. The question asks you to apply that sociological concept or use that concept

on one, or maybe more subjects or examples. You need to identify what those

examples are. Let’s call these the subjects of the question. The subject(s) of

the question might be movies, a social event or aspects of Australian society.

iii. Next you need to understand how the question asks you to apply the

sociological concept or use them on the subjects. It might ask you to

compare, contrast, explore, explain or give ways.

iv. When you apply a sociological concept to a subject you can also use a

sociological theory to help explain or explore or compare. Try to identify a

sociological theory that fits the question and explain why it works (this can be

hard, but if you do it well you will be rewarded with marks).

When you write the full essay the information in this section will form part of the

Introduction to your essay.

Once you start to understand the question you will also start to interpret the question.

There are choices for you to make about how you will answer the question, for

example if the subject is a movie you need to decide which parts of the movie you

will write about. If the subject is Australian Society, what parts of Australian society

will you write about? Likewise what aspects of the sociological concept will you use?

How will theory fit with this? It is good to think about this before you move on to the

next section.

How should you present this information in the essay plan?

There are two good ways

 You could present it like a short answer questions. For example: ‘the

sociological concept the question uses is Social Inequality. Social Inequality

is defined as ….’

 Or you could use the information to create a paragraph that covers all the

points (when it comes time to write your essay you will have to do this. It is

up to you if you do it now).

Do not use dot points. We need to see that you can write sentences and

paragraphs

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Section 2. Key Points

An essay is a large answer to an essay question. Part of the reason it is large is that

you not only have to present an argument or a position as the answer, but also you

have to defend that position with evidence. As I mentioned in the lecture some

students will read the essay question and know straight away what they want their

answer to be. Others will need to read all the readings before they know what

position they want to take. Both approaches are fine, but once you get to this stage

you will have to read the readings to get your key points. The key points are

justifications for your position or argument, but they must be defended with evidence

from the readings.

Some points about key points:

Students often ask how many key points they should have in their essay. At

university you are more likely to be rewarded if you can get into depth on your key

points. This reduces the number that you can use. If you use too many key points

then instead of getting into depth you will start to summarise the topic. Instead of

showing your knowledge and understanding, you will just be skimming the surface of

the concept and the subjects. For this essay three or four key points would be a

good number.

Your key points need to flow from the break down of the question, they need to use

the sociological concept, the subject and what you have been asked to do with them.

If it says that you need to compare two movies then you know that the key points will

need to be about comparing parts of the movies (could be similar or different) that

relate to the sociological concept.

As they are part of a position or argument, the keep points all need to relate to each

other in a logical way. Remember, the key points are meant to support the position

or argument.

Within the key points it would be a good idea to have a sentence or two that explains

how you are going to use the sociological theory you have picked in the essay.

And lastly you need to include a least one citation for each key point. Make sure you

acknowledge what resource the idea or the evidence has come from.

How should you present this information in the essay plan?

Again, avoid dot points here. Instead use a few sentences to explain each key

point. You only have 500 words for the plan in total so try to keep it tight. You

can expand on the details in the essay. Don’t forget to add the citations for each

key point.

Section 3. Conclusion

Both your essay plan and your essay need a conclusion, but the one for your essay

plan will be much shorter. The conclusion for your essay will review your essay as a

whole; you will mention your key points to remind the marker of how great they were.

You will also explain how these points come together to defend your answer to the

essay question.

In the plan you need to provide an outline of that summary. How will these points

work together and importantly, what is the ultimate concluding answer to the essay

question?

Section 4. Research and Referencing

The last section of the criteria concerns what research you have done and how well

you have presented your references. You should refer to the Harvard guide on

referencing and the Guide to Academic Writing to make sure you citations in the plan

and your reference list are correct; however here are some specific points to check:

 You need to use the 4 essential readings in your plan as citations.

 Check that those 4 essential readings are presented correctly in your

reference list at the end of the essay.

 You have to also add 2-4 academic resources to your essay from your own

research. You don’t have to include them in your plan, but if you do and they

are good resources you will be rewarded with marks. It will also give the tutor

an opportunity to give you some feedback on the quality of the resources you

found through your own research.

How should you present this information in the essay plan?

Again, avoid dot points. Try to summarise your key points in a sentence or two.

Explain how they support your argument/position. End the conclusion with a

sentence or two that answers the essay question or finishes the answer you

have developed.

TIPS for the essay plan:

 Give your essay plan (and later your essay) a title.

 Rewrite the question at the start of the essay (a good habit to get into).

 Make it easy for the marker to see the sections of the essay plan. Feel free to

use headings.

 Always proof read and edit your work before you hand it in. Good ideas to

help make the most of your editing include printing your work out on paper

and editing the hard copy, reading your work aloud, and editing your work on

the following day rather than straight away when you write. These help you to

see the grammatical mistakes in your work.

 Start early and try to finish early so you give yourself as much time as

possible to edit and review your essay plan.

 Some questions ask you to use one or two movies in your answer. You will

need to reference them in the essay, but they DO NOT count to you additional

research or essential resources. FYI, the citation and reference will look like

this:

In-Text Citation:

(Title Year)

References:

Title of movie Year of production, Format e.g. DVD, video recording or

motion picture, Publisher, Place.

 If the subject of the question is a movie or two, don’t waste time explaining the

plot of the movie in detail. Focus on the important scenes or ideas in the

movie that are relevant to your answer.

 The word limit is 500 words + or – 10% (so a maximum of 550). Your title, the

question and your reference list do not count towards the word count.

 And lastly keep a margin around your work (2.5-3cm around the page would

be good) and use a 12 point font with double spacing or at least one and a

half spacing. Number the pages and provide an approximate word count.

Essay plans must be typed and submitted via Turnitin

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