Manchester University Academic Phrasebank - a valuable tool to help you understand the vocabulary you should be using in A Level essays.
Many in Religious Studies feel that to be a success you need to be able to write like:
Charlotte Vardy Model Essays
Not Edexcel specific (40 mark, not 30 mark) but the writing skills and AO2 are the same...
Including:
Can you write a good essay? If not you will struggle! (This is still a work in progress)
AO1 to AO2 - Writing Critically
A useful blog discussing structure of critical analysis statements
A document created to help students better understand the mark scheme and demands for different questions.
Charlotte is very experienced A Level teacher and in this video suggests some ways of approaching AO2 skills.
These are for OCR, but many topics are the same. Reading good essays, regardless of spec, is useful to help you develop better writing skills.
Charlotte Vardy gives her insight into how to write A Level essays: