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How do I write a good "informative" essay?
I have to write an essay on a book I read this summer and I chose Albert Camus - The Stranger.

Also:
essay and writing tips general thread

>> No.4084927

try
>>>/e/ssay
>>>/h/elp

>> No.4084942

>>4084927
so funny anon

>> No.4084947

>>4084927
try
>>>/g/ettingoffmylitfaggot

>> No.4084948

>>4084927
You forgot http://boards.4chan.org/d/iscourse though.

>> No.4084951

>>4084927
leave.

>> No.4084952

>>4084947
why don't you stick to >>>/b/ kid

>> No.4084954

derailed

>> No.4084967

sorry OP but you can't mention any of these books in september, it's just too pleb

http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/read-in-high-school?page=1

>> No.4084972

>>4084967
I'm in High School.
Should I choose a different book?
I don't want my teacher to think I'm a pleb in terms of literature

>> No.4085023

>>4084972
bump

>> No.4085032

>>4085023
This is one of the slowest boards. Give it time.

>> No.4085101

Anyone?

>> No.4085214

/

>> No.4085226

When I was in high school, I would just imagine the Plinkett voice in my head from the Star Wars reviews. It helped me write down my thoughts. I would do an informal, semi-stream-of-consciousness draft, go back, organize it, then tone it up to include formal language, slap an intro and conclusion on it, and then hand it in. I was a straight-A student.

>> No.4085237

Do you guys not have anything against high schoolers/underage?

>> No.4085240
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4085240

>>4085226
So uh, why didn't Kurt just go back to Europe?

>> No.4085244

>>4085237
As long as they aren't stupid.

>> No.4085248

>>4085244
Underager detected.

>> No.4085249

>>4085237
Not really. I mean, not as such.

>> No.4085251

>>4085244
I wish more of 4chan had this attitude. I don't think people realise that as the internet grows, more underage are going to end up on this site. Half of /v/ is underage yet they claim not to be.

I'm currently 17 and taking Higher English in my secondary school. Do you think it's a good idea to do a Persuasive essay on 'Should Britain Be Acting like World Police?'. My English teacher is really unhelpful. She goes straight away, 'My initial answer would be no so you're going to need to work on that.'

>> No.4085252

>>4085244
But that's what the rule is for. Anyone stupid enough to openly admit they are breaking a rule should be banned.

>> No.4085255

>>4085251
You're one of the stupid ones.

>> No.4085259

>>4085255
I'm only admitting it to prove a point. How am I any different to those who are 'allowed' to be on this site? I really don't see the difference between me and an 18 year old apart from they've now passed this 'line'.

>> No.4085272

>>4084972
No, it's not too pleb at all. I'd think that doing The Stranger would be very appropriate. Don't write about a book to come across as highbrow, there is a lot you can discuss and do well in The Stranger.

>> No.4085277

>>4085259
Everyone is allowed on the site so long as they have common sense, which you seem to lack. The difference between someone who is allowed to be on the site, and someone who isn't, is the difference.

Admitting doesn't help prove your 'point,' it ruins it. Should we ask the hungry how much food the comfortable should donate?

>> No.4085279

>>4085248
Obviously, didn't you read the OP post.
>>4085251
of course /v/ is full of underage people.
/vg/ is the only decent video game board
>>4085259
It's part of the 4chan rules that you can't be under 18 so you probably shouldn't go around saying that you are 17. Just don't openly admit it like >>4085252 said

>> No.4085280

>>4085272
Thanks. Any idea on how I can make a good essay?

>> No.4085285

>>4085280
Don't write one, and then say something like 'the concept of persuasion is absurd,' or 'there's no point to writing an essay.'

>> No.4085287

>>4085285
and then proceed cutting yourself

>> No.4085286

>>4085285
Bad advice. What's the prompt?

>> No.4085289

>>4085286
The book you clearly don't understand.

>> No.4085290

>>4085279
I've never admitted my age before. I saw this thread and decided like this was a good place to ask for help. I thought I might as well be honest instead of making up some excuse like, 'I'm 18 but I'm still in secondary school'.

>> No.4085293

>>4085290
A better decision would've been, 'let's ignore this shitty thread and not break rules.'

>> No.4085297

moot created 4chan at 15 you fuccboi's
the over 18 thing is so they don't get into legal trouble
>mfw this thread got derailed this fast

>> No.4085299

>>4085297
>implying it was ever on a rail

The over 18 thing is to keep out unwanted and stupid underage bans like you. There's a reason it still exists.

>> No.4085302

>>4085297
Yep, always found this ironic. People spout the underage thing like it's the law, well... it is, but you know what I mean.

Anyway, to all the underagefriends here, /lit/ probably isn't the best place to ask these kind of questions. There is a website called google, which you may have heard of, and it could help you quite a bit.

>> No.4085303

The replies in this thread are sad.

OP. Find something that resonated with you about the book. What stuck out to you personally? Were you even really and authentically interested in it?

Maybe Meursault or the conversation with the priest in the end. Lots of people have written on the opening sentence and its implications based on how it is translated.

You can go a lot of places with this depending on how open the prompt is and whether or not you have a decent teacher.

>> No.4085307

>17 years old

KILL HIM.

CONTACT MOOT.

CONTACT THE FBI.

CONTACT THE PRESIDENT

HE'S BREAKING DA RULEZ

ANONYMOUS IS LEGIIIOOOON!!!!!!!!1111

>> No.4085310

ITT: High Schoolers

>> No.4085357

>>4085303
Thanks man.
Those two questions helped my essay

>> No.4085358

>>4085307
>>4085310
Just drop the high school subject already

>> No.4086775

>>4085279
Half of /vg/'s threads are alright. The other half are shit.

I like /vr/ better.