Things I learnt from this video: Step 1 (5 -10 mins): - Create a notion database (or just a checklist) with the mark scheme, split into intro, main body and conclusion Step 2 (20 mins): - In the intro, set the scene (without repeating the question itself). Say the importance of the topic - In the main body, work out what order you want the paragraphs based on the marking criteria - In the conclusion, talk about the wider context of the topic Step 3 (30-60 mins): - Make a central point for each paragraph (can be a quote or study too!) - Have a column for quotes or sources Step 4 (60 mins) - Start writing your essay - based on the detailed plan we already have - Just need to elaborate on the key ideas / sources which we have already decided on Then take a break (hours - days) Then come back and do a 30 min review of your work
I have a low attention span and really struggle with getting the important points from a video, so this comment and you made on the How I Remember Everything I Read video have been lifesavers! I really appreciate it!
The marking criteria trick (copy pasting the marking criteria to structure your essay) is spot on! When I was marking essays as a university tutor, I could only really award points for answering the marking criteria. It pained me to not be able to give points to well written essays that didn't answer the criteria.
Hardest part is finding the right resources in social sciences and reading through a lot of stuff, hoping there will be something you can use in there ...
This is how we write articles as journalists. Such a smart idea, the first 5 minutes of building the structure make it much easier, in addition to quotes and sources' statements. In a few months, you just became one of my favorite RUclipsrs ❤
I cannot thank you enough for this video! Yes, currently I am writing a 6000 word MA essay within an only few days - hectic (reading foundation has been laid thankfully). But even in future when I have more time available - this structure will help so much in just getting started! Those first words on a blank page are daunting. This helps my mind breathe.
I have this system where I read the required reading, and put the elaborate notes as well as a simplified summary + the exact source with page numbers into a table. Then I can sort of copy paste the essay into being. But I think I’ll add some of your points into my system (like the point criteria). Thank you!
I finished my master's in London (Global Political Economy) and now I am again in school, this time following my true passion, that is Counselling. I love studying and not sure when I will end with schools :) I study on my own as well, gathering knowledge it's a great passion of mine! Great video, so rich in valuable information!
As someone who is literally taking a break from her GPE readings (and lowkey dying from the unit) to watch this video, cheers to you for finishing your masters and good luck in school!
I recall you demonstrating similar in the recent BASB course and I loved it. Thank you for recording and publishing it. I am just adding this to the course I teach, Research Methods for Advanced Engineering, in a Masters degree programme, as required watching for all of my students. Absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much again.
I used this method for my thesis and it works really well! I would do this process per chapter. The spreadsheet is a bit bigger, and it takes a bit longer than 3 hours - especially if you haven't read and taken notes yet - but it works like a charm! When you're working on a larger writing project, it's so helpful to just imagine you're writing a string of smaller essays. You're just calling them chapters. If this is your own thesis - it's highly likely that you're going to be creating the elements of your second column yourself: but don't skip! This will help you sort out your argument. Highly recommend this strategy for your thesis!
Thank you, this is a brilliant way of structuring an essay because it allows you to process each section without holding the entire essay in your mind at once. 👌❤ Note that you can do this in a spreadsheet just as well. I colour code each section to remind me if I happy with it or not.
Hello Elizabeth, one of your video on taking college notes on macbook helped me a lot saving lots of my money.. I already had a old ipad and was tempted to purchase a new ipad pro M1 again 😁 seing the apple promo ads . ha ha 😁. Later i realized making notes on Macbook is so nice & fast ( thanks to my typing speed & also your helpful video ) and i saved my money . That money i used to purchase a new iphone 13 pro max ( Sierra blue ) . Thanks a lot to you for all valuable informative videos 🙏🙏
I actually quicken the process a little, I spread a net out look up a couple of books, articles etc find articles that work with what I'm working on. Build a framework of what I want to say a simple one that works is beginning which is explaining the issue, 3- 2 main points that I want to state( this also helps me look up what I need to know to get through the essay.) An outro. I've used this for so many different types of papers over the years. Takes about 2 hours 3 at max. I just write them on notepad. Not convinced on how notion would speed up my process.
I wish I watched this at the beginning of my Master of Teaching. I’ll test this out for my electives. I have at least 8 papers to write. I’m keen! I might also see if I can use this for my students 😱
thank you very much for explaning and making my life much easier , before , my essay can take forever due to all of this....... , but you made this so much easier , to make this layout to use for my studying
Hi Elizabeth! Thank you so much for this useful and inspiring video. Would you also give us a bit more insights on your research process? How long does it take you to conduct your research and find all these useful quotes and studies?
This is a fantastic system and exactly the reason I keep a commonplace book, similar to Ryan Holiday's note taking system. It makes future work a case of just bringing all your reasources in line and you stitching them together with some of your own words
You can trait cut down on your time finding sources using AI. I like to use Google Gemini to say "X is my claim, I need you to find 3 sources that support it and two that contradict out" and then I'll give more criteria if there is any.
I find marking schemes often use really elaborate language that I don't often process well, so I copy and paste it in to chatGPT and ask it to reword it into colloquial language. I'm then able to split it up into understandable chunks.
Your content is the best, your motivation! I’m not even in uni and it just felt like I wanted to do an essay to apply this 😂Congratulations on your 100k subscribers🎉🥳 you will quickly grow much more as your content and your attitude are so incredible !
Nice tips but I find this so difficult to get my head around this. Is there a writing course people have done to get this awesome experience? Been a while since I have finished highschool learning to write an essay
I just love your way of study technique s... they are so so relevant and quite practical to follow... I just love watching and listening to you contents... I do not spend much on youtube but I never miss your contents, just amazing and so practical
Thank you Lizzy for this video 💌 !! Surprisingly, my method of doing essays much resembles yours but while your ones have to be precise and on point, mine are literary ones so they need more prettification, (if you will) Also I use the same breaking down and compartmentalising technique for learning anything I need to learn and this system has helped A LOTTT I have a small request as an ardent subscriber of yours , can you please make a video about the general-getting-acquainted-with-and-comprehending-notion video because I really wanna combine all book quotes and my opinions about them as well as plethora of information I consume everyday!!! I’d be immensely grateful 🍇💌
Agreed! I’m so intimidated by Notion but I desperately need something better than a word doc, my notes app and my reminder list to sort everything out!
Wow, amazing,Elizabeth, i have to say that you're so smarter than the rest of us, i remembered when i was graduate student as Chinese philosophy ten years ago, i had big headache about graduate essay😂💖
This video is helpful indeed, but there is no way it's 3 hours work. You also usually need to read about 10 academic materials to quote from, which in no way would take you only 60 minutes to do....
Hi Elizabeth your growth on RUclips has been super inspiring to watch, so much so that I uploaded my first very crusty video today so thanks for that and all the best!
Ooh Thank you a lot You speak so fast and simple I don't regret any single video of yours that I watched Beautiful, smart and very talented girl You look like a French girl actually and I really like it, I love your long hair Please continue posting such videos 👍
Love this video! Thanks for sharing. I just watched last Ali’s video where you were giving a presentation. I was wondering why don’t you also create a similar video about the processing of making engaging presentations and prepare for it? Thanks!!! ☺️☺️☺️
This is such a great approach. Do you have any tips for using this on bigger projects such as longer theses for masters or doctorates? You are brilliant. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
Hi Elizabeth, I don't even know how to create the database in Notion? Can you please outline how to do that? IS thath on a school profile? I've even asked the help function, and it does not look like your database table :/
I'll try to apply something similar to article writing, I love how structured it is! I'm about to implement Zettelkasten for the first time and I was thinking of using obsidian, but notion is tempting after seeing your videos. We'll see.
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I have always written the introduction last. It makes sense to me.
Things I learnt from this video:
Step 1 (5 -10 mins):
- Create a notion database (or just a checklist) with the mark scheme, split into intro, main body and conclusion
Step 2 (20 mins):
- In the intro, set the scene (without repeating the question itself). Say the importance of the topic
- In the main body, work out what order you want the paragraphs based on the marking criteria
- In the conclusion, talk about the wider context of the topic
Step 3 (30-60 mins):
- Make a central point for each paragraph (can be a quote or study too!)
- Have a column for quotes or sources
Step 4 (60 mins)
- Start writing your essay - based on the detailed plan we already have
- Just need to elaborate on the key ideas / sources which we have already decided on
Then take a break (hours - days)
Then come back and do a 30 min review of your work
I have a low attention span and really struggle with getting the important points from a video, so this comment and you made on the How I Remember Everything I Read video have been lifesavers! I really appreciate it!
Thank you so much for this!! But, what to do if we have to write '2' essays for 15 marks each within 3 hours?
Thanks to u now everything is simpler and easier thank uu
The marking criteria trick (copy pasting the marking criteria to structure your essay) is spot on! When I was marking essays as a university tutor, I could only really award points for answering the marking criteria. It pained me to not be able to give points to well written essays that didn't answer the criteria.
This interesting to know I really struggle with my planning as I never plan it.
😊😊😅
I wish I had discovered this video when doing my bachelors!
Hardest part is finding the right resources in social sciences and reading through a lot of stuff, hoping there will be something you can use in there ...
This is how we write articles as journalists. Such a smart idea, the first 5 minutes of building the structure make it much easier, in addition to quotes and sources' statements. In a few months, you just became one of my favorite RUclipsrs ❤
I cannot thank you enough for this video! Yes, currently I am writing a 6000 word MA essay within an only few days - hectic (reading foundation has been laid thankfully). But even in future when I have more time available - this structure will help so much in just getting started! Those first words on a blank page are daunting. This helps my mind breathe.
I've just finished uni... would have loved this video as a first year.
I have this system where I read the required reading, and put the elaborate notes as well as a simplified summary + the exact source with page numbers into a table. Then I can sort of copy paste the essay into being. But I think I’ll add some of your points into my system (like the point criteria). Thank you!
Oh and I’m starting to use Mendeley for managing the references.
I finished my master's in London (Global Political Economy) and now I am again in school, this time following my true passion, that is Counselling. I love studying and not sure when I will end with schools :) I study on my own as well, gathering knowledge it's a great passion of mine! Great video, so rich in valuable information!
As someone who is literally taking a break from her GPE readings (and lowkey dying from the unit) to watch this video, cheers to you for finishing your masters and good luck in school!
I recall you demonstrating similar in the recent BASB course and I loved it. Thank you for recording and publishing it. I am just adding this to the course I teach, Research Methods for Advanced Engineering, in a Masters degree programme, as required watching for all of my students. Absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much again.
Have you already written a thesis? If so, could you explain how in the same way? This was great!
I used this method for my thesis and it works really well! I would do this process per chapter. The spreadsheet is a bit bigger, and it takes a bit longer than 3 hours - especially if you haven't read and taken notes yet - but it works like a charm! When you're working on a larger writing project, it's so helpful to just imagine you're writing a string of smaller essays. You're just calling them chapters. If this is your own thesis - it's highly likely that you're going to be creating the elements of your second column yourself: but don't skip! This will help you sort out your argument. Highly recommend this strategy for your thesis!
Thank you, this is a brilliant way of structuring an essay because it allows you to process each section without holding the entire essay in your mind at once. 👌❤
Note that you can do this in a spreadsheet just as well. I colour code each section to remind me if I happy with it or not.
Hello Elizabeth, one of your video on taking college notes on macbook helped me a lot saving lots of my money.. I already had a old ipad and was tempted to purchase a new ipad pro M1 again 😁 seing the apple promo ads . ha ha 😁. Later i realized making notes on Macbook is so nice & fast ( thanks to my typing speed & also your helpful video ) and i saved my money . That money i used to purchase a new iphone 13 pro max ( Sierra blue ) . Thanks a lot to you for all valuable informative videos 🙏🙏
I actually quicken the process a little, I spread a net out look up a couple of books, articles etc find articles that work with what I'm working on. Build a framework of what I want to say a simple one that works is beginning which is explaining the issue, 3- 2 main points that I want to state( this also helps me look up what I need to know to get through the essay.) An outro. I've used this for so many different types of papers over the years. Takes about 2 hours 3 at max. I just write them on notepad. Not convinced on how notion would speed up my process.
Hey -- I think in this way too! I'm going to try this for an essay I've had trouble writing for the past month. Thank you!
I wish I watched this at the beginning of my Master of Teaching. I’ll test this out for my electives. I have at least 8 papers to write. I’m keen!
I might also see if I can use this for my students 😱
Introduction, Body, Conclusion
Introduction: set the context
Marking scheme
This idea of outlining with a notion db is amazing!
thank you very much for explaning and making my life much easier , before , my essay can take forever due to all of this....... , but you made this so much easier , to make this layout to use for my studying
every time i see your video for very many repeated times , im getting a new insight of your video and im carrying away new resources with me everytime
I literally found this GODLY video a day before my exam. So grateful! Thank you so much
Thanks! Your method helps me the most. i prefer writing left to right instead of top down
Hi Elizabeth! Thank you so much for this useful and inspiring video. Would you also give us a bit more insights on your research process? How long does it take you to conduct your research and find all these useful quotes and studies?
Great video, I’ll give Notion a try. Also, royal blue is a great color on you!
Thanks a lot! This really helped
This is such a good technique! Thank you so much! I'm still in school but I think this should work pretty good though
Long Distance. Teaching, Learning, Healthy Lifestyle, Organic Farming.We like your way to explain.Thanks.
This is the most amazing advice I have ever heard for writing,
This is a fantastic system and exactly the reason I keep a commonplace book, similar to Ryan Holiday's note taking system. It makes future work a case of just bringing all your reasources in line and you stitching them together with some of your own words
You are glorious Elizabeth and so is your channel!
As a regular 'leave it to the last minute' wretch, this was a great asset to my procrastinative tendancies.
You can trait cut down on your time finding sources using AI. I like to use Google Gemini to say "X is my claim, I need you to find 3 sources that support it and two that contradict out" and then I'll give more criteria if there is any.
Great content! Actually have to write my first proper Essay in so many years of university so this comes in super handy!
I cannot thank you enough for this video. It has been incredibly helpful.
Really it's not easy to achieve you are hardworking and thanks for the more information for medical and other.
Great video. Do you make your final version in some other program like word or pages and how do you do references, with end notes or footnotes?
Yooooo Elizabeth this is SUPER HELPFUL!!! I have 2 midterms due next week and kind of have to get started ASAP 😅. Thanks!!!
Wow! She's fast in explaining the process. Thanks for the details and in-depth run through of the guidance and tips in using Notion.
I find marking schemes often use really elaborate language that I don't often process well, so I copy and paste it in to chatGPT and ask it to reword it into colloquial language. I'm then able to split it up into understandable chunks.
I want to set up a new learning system formuni today, timemto binge watch your vieos and rake notes!!
Hi Elizabeth, I used this method to write my paper this week and it was definitely helpful and made the process much less overwhelming. Thanks :)
Your content is the best, your motivation! I’m not even in uni and it just felt like I wanted to do an essay to apply this 😂Congratulations on your 100k subscribers🎉🥳 you will quickly grow much more as your content and your attitude are so incredible !
An Britain telling 'fastly' is all I ever wanted in my life.
I am definitely going to use this system
Thanks! I am in my last year of college, I will definitely try this.
Thank you so much! I'm just writing an essay so that's great
Please do more University Videos! I’m a first year and it’s super helpful
Nice tips but I find this so difficult to get my head around this. Is there a writing course people have done to get this awesome experience? Been a while since I have finished highschool learning to write an essay
Awesome video! And congrats on the sponsorship w/notion
Great video !!!
Would love a video on tips & tricks on managing full time job with studies cause many including me struggle with it
Thank you very much. I will give Notion a try.
the best timing ever! i have to write my first essay next week :/
This is AMAZING content!! Thank you so much!!
Genius. Also - happy 100k! You deserve it.
I'm starting to love your channel. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE TIPS
Congrats on One Lakh subscribers!!! ❤️❤️
I just love your way of study technique s... they are so so relevant and quite practical to follow... I just love watching and listening to you contents... I do not spend much on youtube but I never miss your contents, just amazing and so practical
But todays video lacks your black appearance 😅😅😅
Just returning to school after 23 years and have never written an essay, so glad I came across this video.
Thank you Lizzy for this video 💌 !!
Surprisingly, my method of doing essays much resembles yours but while your ones have to be precise and on point, mine are literary ones so they need more prettification, (if you will)
Also I use the same breaking down and compartmentalising technique for learning anything I need to learn and this system has helped A LOTTT
I have a small request as an ardent subscriber of yours , can you please make a video about the general-getting-acquainted-with-and-comprehending-notion video because I really wanna combine all book quotes and my opinions about them as well as plethora of information I consume everyday!!! I’d be immensely grateful 🍇💌
Agreed! I’m so intimidated by Notion but I desperately need something better than a word doc, my notes app and my reminder list to sort everything out!
This is soo useful, thank you so much!
So cool that you take the time to put on your scrubs for the medicine-related videos! :-)
Yayy! Congratulations on your 100k Liz!! ❤ the strategy seems so helpful! Will have to try it next year in my post graduation.
Congratz on the 100k subscribers!
Wow, amazing,Elizabeth, i have to say that you're so smarter than the rest of us, i remembered when i was graduate student as Chinese philosophy ten years ago, i had big headache about graduate essay😂💖
This video is helpful indeed, but there is no way it's 3 hours work. You also usually need to read about 10 academic materials to quote from, which in no way would take you only 60 minutes to do....
Hi Elizabeth your growth on RUclips has been super inspiring to watch, so much so that I uploaded my first very crusty video today so thanks for that and all the best!
Thank you so much or sharing your skills. It will help me to make my assignment in uk uni
Ooh
Thank you a lot
You speak so fast and simple
I don't regret any single video of yours that I watched
Beautiful, smart and very talented girl
You look like a French girl actually and I really like it, I love your long hair
Please continue posting such videos
👍
I so need this video!!! Congratulations on 100K !!!
Thank you so much for this! It's incredibly helpful 💜
Great timing! I just started working on an essay, very helpful!
Very high-value video. I'll make sure to adapt some of the points into my method. Congrats on 100K subs.
What a speed of speaking ❤️
Congratulations for 100K subscribers. Wishes from India . My BIG sister found your Vlog really helpful .THANKS AGAIN
Love this video! Thanks for sharing. I just watched last Ali’s video where you were giving a presentation. I was wondering why don’t you also create a similar video about the processing of making engaging presentations and prepare for it? Thanks!!! ☺️☺️☺️
Thank you so much🥹I have been trying to do a 800-1,000 page essay and I have been on it for hours!
6:14 column headings
Please elaborate on your decision to work full time while studying and how you did that! I'm thinking of doing the same thing and would love advice!
Happy new year and Merry Christmas's.
And this is your best piece of content so far! Really good ❤️
This is such a great approach. Do you have any tips for using this on bigger projects such as longer theses for masters or doctorates? You are brilliant. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
Congratulations on 100k well deserved
Extremely useful - thank you.
The real speed of the video x1,75
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BVASANTHKUMAR
this is a great tip for any writing task.
OMG you're so smart
I like these ideas
Not going to lie, this video has changed my life.
great help doing my foundation degree
Thanks so much for this video!!!!!! So useful!!!
Great tips, thank you so much
Where are you Elizabeth? I miss listening to you? No podcast either? :(
Amazing . Thank you.
Thank you!) Love it!
Loved the Content Elizabeth.Btwn what's the font you are using in your video..It looks good & classy
Hi Elizabeth, I don't even know how to create the database in Notion? Can you please outline how to do that? IS thath on a school profile? I've even asked the help function, and it does not look like your database table :/
I love this method！
I'll try to apply something similar to article writing, I love how structured it is!
I'm about to implement Zettelkasten for the first time and I was thinking of using obsidian, but notion is tempting after seeing your videos. We'll see.
Thankyou for great guidence
You are an inspiration ❤️
Congrats on 100k subscribers.
This makes me want to write an essay, but hold on... I'm no longer in uni...😬