Use your first paragraph to provide an overview of your essay.
Use the rest of your essay to discuss these points in more detail.
Back up your points with specific information, examples, or quotations from your readings and notes
Teachers are influenced by compactness, completeness and clarity of an organized answer
Writing in the hope that the right answer will somehow turn up is time-consuming and usually futile
To know a little and to present that little well is, by and large, superior to knowing much and presenting it poorly--when judged by the grade received
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