Making your initial plan

Using the ideas and insights you generated in your question analysis and brainstorming, you can draw
up an initial plan for your essay. This will help to keep you focussed on the question to guide your reading and noting.

Planning the Body

Look at the ideas you generated from your brainstorming.

How could these be grouped?
Organise them into a few main categories with sub-categories.
Use these categories and sub-categories to create an initial plan consisting of headings and sub-headings.

The next step is to consider further how categories from the lists could be linked together. Making these connections should help you identify the logical links between the various parts of the Body you have developed.

Applying the word limit
Estimate how you might distribute the required number words to the various parts of your essay? How many words will you allow for your Introduction? For your Conclusion?

How will you distribute the rest among the parts of the Body identified in your initial plan? How many major parts are there? Will they take up equal amounts of your discussion? What is a good balance between the various parts?

Next step: Reading and noting

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