Answering essay questions:

What is the question asking you to do?

Is it asking you to:

• retell past events? Write a recount.
• present factual information? Write a report.
• present an argument from a particular point of view? Write an exposition.
• explain how or why something happened? Write an explanation.
• to discuss more than one point of view? Write a discussion
• analyse a source? See analysing a source.

When you decide which text type is appropriate, click on the one below for a scaffold to help you..

|| Recount || Descriptive Report || Exposition || Explanation || Discussion ||