“But how can I tell the difference between description and evaluation?”

Manchester University Academic Phrasebank - a valuable tool to help you understand the vocabulary you should be using in A Level essays.

Write like a...

Many in Religious Studies feel that to be a success you need to be able to write like:

• A Theologian

• A Philosopher

• A Social Scientist

Charlotte Vardy Model Essays

• Not Edexcel specific (40 mark, not 30 mark) but the writing skills and AO2 are the same...

  • Model Essays

  • Including:

    • Cosmological

    • Life After Death

• Literacy Skills

  • Can you write a good essay? If not you will struggle! (This is still a work in progress)

    • Guidance from Cambridge and Yale

    • 5 Tips to improve academic writing

• AO1 to AO2 - Writing Critically

  • A useful blog discussing structure of critical analysis statements

• Breaking Down the Mark Scheme

  • A document created to help students better understand the mark scheme and demands for different questions.

• Charlotte Vardy on AO2 Skills

  • Charlotte is very experienced A Level teacher and in this video suggests some ways of approaching AO2 skills.

  • AO2 Proforma

• Either/Or Essays

  • 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.

Writing A Level Essays

Charlotte Vardy gives her insight into how to write A Level essays: