In this video, recorded as part of the S.H.E.D – Sharing Higher Education Designs, James Underwood (Principal Lecturer in Teachers’ CPD) demonstrates an essay planning technique useful at different levels and in different contexts.

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This technique is discussed, as mentioned at the end of the video, in the following paper:

Searching for commonalities in the teaching of critical thinking skills, from Masters’ to sixth form to primary (NECTAR: http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/7634/)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279514352_Searching_for_commonalities_in_the_teaching_of_critical_thinking_skills_from_Masters’_to_sixth_form_to_primary