Starting on my first draft.....
Essay Title: Discuss the Ways in which the Illustrations within Children's Picture Books have been used as Ideological Tools. I really struggled to write my essay plan. I kept getting sidetracked and delving into philosophy. My tutor had to remind me that I was writing about illustrations and told me to realign all my thoughts. This really helped. I then sat down and tried to write an introduction that would really help me pin point what I wanted to say. In school my English teacher told me that writing things in a top heavy pyramid, always works best for articles and essays. It is a general rule that I try to adhere to. Very few people get past the first section of your writing so you should ideally put all your main points into an introduction. Then the rest of the essay becomes a way of resolving all you touched upon in the introduction. Writing the introduction in this way helped me knock out my essay plan. I spent a fair amount of time deciding on what children's...