@Matthew Crane Not using the first person in the introduction is a formal academic style of writing and, if used well, this is great! For example, the thesis statement 'I agree that his poetry explores a great many facets of love, but there are also limitations' could be rewritten as 'Many believe that his poetry explores a great many facets of love, but that there are also limitations'. Be aware that a potential pitfall with writing an introduction in the third person is that a weaker candidate might state the views of other people and not really respond to them. They would therefore have a weak or non-existent thesis statement. Using the word 'I' from the beginning encourages a personal response. AO1 requires you to 'articulate informed, personal and creative responses', so the first person helps many candidates to focus on expressing their views from the beginning rather than their views being lost behind those of others. The use of the first person in introductions is nowadays becoming more widely used at A' level, and candidates will not be penalised for this.
The use of the first person in essays is personal preference. Many university professors (e.g. the critic Robert Eaglestone, who answered this very question from teachers at the 2016 OCR A’ level conference) are happy for the first person to be used because it shows they HAVE an opinion. Other people prefer students not to use the first person because they say it’s a more academic writing style. This is explained in the A level book.
@Matthew Crane
Not using the first person in the introduction is a formal academic style of writing and, if used well, this is great! For example, the thesis statement 'I agree that his poetry explores a great many facets of love, but there are also limitations' could be rewritten as 'Many believe that his poetry explores a great many facets of love, but that there are also limitations'.
Be aware that a potential pitfall with writing an introduction in the third person is that a weaker candidate might state the views of other people and not really respond to them. They would therefore have a weak or non-existent thesis statement. Using the word 'I' from the beginning encourages a personal response. AO1 requires you to 'articulate informed, personal and creative responses', so the first person helps many candidates to focus on expressing their views from the beginning rather than their views being lost behind those of others. The use of the first person in introductions is nowadays becoming more widely used at A' level, and candidates will not be penalised for this.
Please could you do some A level videos on The Great Gatsby?
Could you please do some A level Poetry analysis videos? Preferably Rossetti?
That is mean.
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Darius Oladipo *you’re. Bit ironic lol
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Please may you do a GCSE version of this video?
Can you please do analytical introductions?
Thank you for such a useful lesson and I must say the ebook is very good too.
is this still relevant for the new GCSEs/A levels?
Don't think so
Yes
In conclusion I thought we are not supposed to Use I, Me or my because as my teacher said they don't care about our opinion.
The use of the first person in essays is personal preference. Many university professors (e.g. the critic Robert Eaglestone, who answered this very question from teachers at the 2016 OCR A’ level conference) are happy for the first person to be used because it shows they HAVE an opinion. Other people prefer students not to use the first person because they say it’s a more academic writing style. This is explained in the A level book.
Can you do a video on Social and a Political Protest Writing please
PLEASEEE DO PIGEON ENGLISHHHHH
essay on "empire of the sun" developing on violence
Please do it for Jerusalem
when you're using for GCSE English Literature to bump your grades up
revise if you wanna succeed....shud've started before, my son :) ...i raised you sooo badly, haven't I?
@@kashofficial5776 wtf....