Creating an Essay Plan

Creating an essay plan was possibly one of the hardest tasks to actually get right for me.

First, I sat down to make a plan. I ended up getting sucked into reading and making extensive notes.

I sat down to make a plan again. I ended up writing a long introduction that sounded like the beginning of an essay about the philosophy behind children's picture books.

I sat down to write an essay plan for the third time and it had no clear direction.

I sat down to write my essay plan a fourth time. I hammered out an introduction and I wrote a plan that finally sounded like the essay I wanted to produce to discuss the title:

Discuss the Ways in which the Illustrations within Children's Picture Books have been used as Ideological Tools.

It helped that my tutor shared a sample plan with me and kept reminding me to go back to it. She also got a bit stern with me and turned my head around to remind me of the task at hand.

Finally I feel like this plan is relevant to my practice and my essay isn't going to talk and discuss things in big circles.