A Level Psychology (AQA) Essay Writing Booklet

Essay Writing Skills in Psychology: Booklet (22 pages)

I created this booklet to support my students with essay writing, designed to use across the 2 year course and covers guidance and activities linked to a range of essay questions.

I designed it to use across the course, not all in one go. Lots of activities that I have adapted over time and work really effectively and helps students to develop effective essay writing skills.

The booklet includes:

1. A list of standard essay questions - that my students use throughout the 2 years to produce writing frames for as part of their revision process. I also use writing frames as a way to introduce essay writing as they require students to reorganise material and see how A01 and A03 points may link together (paragraph development).
2. Command words
3. Mark band criteria
4. Types of essay questions - student task (identify the assessment objectives)
5. 2 example Milgram essays to cover ‘outline and evaluate’ and ‘discuss’ questions.
6. Advice on good writing practices: including structure, organisation and signposting
7. Activity: How to demonstrate depth in your answer
8. How to build an elaborated paragraph (example)
9. Application essay task: colour coding activity
10. Application essay activity: planning the assessment objectives
11. Approaches comparison question activities.
12. Using comparison as an A03 point activity
13. List of example application essays for students to practice.

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