Unit 6: The HL Essay
Topic 6.3: Developing an argument Questions
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Ease in — developing an HL-essay argument
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Answer on developing an argument. (Exam-style practice.)
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Piece it together, step by step — turning a repeating plan into a developing one
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HL-ESSAY PLANNING TASK. Using the short original work below, plan a DEVELOPED argument.
LINE OF INQUIRY (given): How does the writer use the narrator's obsession with tidiness to explore grief?
Produce: (1) a thesis; (2) three paragraph points that BUILD (each adding a layer — not repeating); (3) one complication or counter-idea you'd answer. (In the real HL essay you write 1,200–1,500 words on your own studied work.)
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