How many essays?

[rachaelcool]

Just curious... how many essays do you write (per week, say) for your English subject? Or, how many did you write?

[Lolly]

 Two months before the end of year exam, I wrote one every week. I ended up writing about nine or ten essays.  I have no idea if this is more or less than the average person. At the moment I'm trying to get back into the habit.

[charmanderp]

I've written 1 practice essay so far this year, and that was for our first SAC.

[Yendall]

For my 'Ransom' sac (which is next week), I've written about six - seven so far. Usually only write about four, but I had some trouble with a couple of essays.

[Felicity Wishes]

Last week I did 5. I usually try to do around that much before a sac.

[ktrah]

I usually just write one or two before each SAC, but it's getting closer to the end of the year so I probably should start writing more.

[pi]

I usually just write one or two before each SAC, but it's getting closer to the end of the year so I probably should start writing more.

That's pretty much what I did. 3 LAs and 3 Text Responses and 2 contexts before each SAC

[WhoTookMyUsername]

i think i've done around 20 - 25 for the year so far which is under what i was aiming for (35 - 40 at this stage)

[rachaelcool]

Thanks guys!

Yeah I tend to write about one a week for English, and the equivalent length in Revolutions questions. I write next to nothing extra for Literature though, should change that..

[charmanderp]

Don't delude yourself into thinking writing heaps of essays will get you a good mark though. It's important to spend an equal amount of time (or even more) developing the complexity of your understanding and interpretation of the text, which will take your essays to the next level. In my opinion the real benefit of writing essays is becoming efficient in articulating your more prominent views on a text so that they become essentially second-nature heading into an assessment.

[Shenz0r]

7 Language Analysis + 5 Ransom  + 1 Streetcar + 3 Spies = 16 essays for this year so far (still managed to get A+ for every English SAC so far)

I spend a lot of my time writing essays when I first start out, and I correct them until I think they're perfect enough, before I go under time-constraints.

The 1 essay for Streetcar was drafted and edited a lot, with context you probably don't need to write as much essays as you would for text response and language analysis, seeing as how the prompts for context easily link in with another and are pretty open-ended.

[keyan]

Just one or half of one a week hehe. Will hopefully be doing 2-3 a week come exam revision time

[rachaelcool]

Thanks for all the input guys!

And charmanderp, I definitely agree it is super important to have a thorough knowledge of the text/context before writing a load of essays -- however I do find that if I address a similar argument from one essay to another this also helps in extending my interpretation, because I find writing stuff down in essay format really helps me formulate my ideas in a coherent way as opposed to having all these half-baked thoughts floating around. But this is only after finding those ideas anyway, so I'm basically just +1ing you all the way

[FlorianK]

Besides the SAC's
1 Cosi text response
1 Context
1 Interpreter text response
trying to finish my second interpreter essay within the next hour.

From now on I think I'll make thursday my essay day and write one essay during private study. Even though I need much more than 1.5 hours for 1 essay atm. Hope I'll be able to bring down the time until the exam.

[amilss]

Wow you guys are so dedicated. I have dead-set only wrote three essays this entire year.