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PIE structure

You will notice that for many forms of assessment, you are asked to organize and structure your ideas. This lesson gives you a kind of 'recipe' for cooking up an essay as it were. The template approach to structuring writing, which is presented in this lesson, is not meant to be prescriptive. Rather, consider the PIE method a kind of guideline or safety mechanism to fall back on. For each sentence that you write, you...


Tags: structure, writing, essay, Paper 2, Paper 1, organization

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