Before you even begin writing the first sentence of your essay, you need to plan your essay. Planning is vital too to enable you to produce a first-class essay.
The plan gives your essay a clear structure. Without this you're likely to lose your ideas, and if examinators can't see why your arguments are relevant, or they can't see what you're doing and why, they cannot give you marks, no matter how good your work might be.
By rehearsing your ideas in detail you will avoid the problem of trying to do the two most difficult things in writing at the same time: pinning down your ideas clearly, and then summoning up the words and phrases that will convey them accurately.
Spend the first ten minutes writing down your plan before you begin to write the essay. Don't get panicked into writing too soon before you have exhausted all of your ideas and got them organised into a coherent, well structured plan, that answers the question with strict relevance.
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