Things I learnt from this video: Step 1 (5 -10 mins): - Create a notion database (or just a checklist) with the mark scheme, split into intro, main body and conclusion Step 2 (20 mins): - In the intro, set the scene (without repeating the question itself). Say the importance of the topic - In the main body, work out what order you want the paragraphs based on the marking criteria - In the conclusion, talk about the wider context of the topic Step 3 (30-60 mins): - Make a central point for each paragraph (can be a quote or study too!) - Have a column for quotes or sources Step 4 (60 mins) - Start writing your essay - based on the detailed plan we already have - Just need to elaborate on the key ideas / sources which we have already decided on Then take a break (hours - days) Then come back and do a 30 min review of your work
I have a low attention span and really struggle with getting the important points from a video, so this comment and you made on the How I Remember Everything I Read video have been lifesavers! I really appreciate it!
Hardest part is finding the right resources in social sciences and reading through a lot of stuff, hoping there will be something you can use in there ...
The marking criteria trick (copy pasting the marking criteria to structure your essay) is spot on! When I was marking essays as a university tutor, I could only really award points for answering the marking criteria. It pained me to not be able to give points to well written essays that didn't answer the criteria.
This is how we write articles as journalists. Such a smart idea, the first 5 minutes of building the structure make it much easier, in addition to quotes and sources' statements. In a few months, you just became one of my favorite TH-camrs ❤
I cannot thank you enough for this video! Yes, currently I am writing a 6000 word MA essay within an only few days - hectic (reading foundation has been laid thankfully). But even in future when I have more time available - this structure will help so much in just getting started! Those first words on a blank page are daunting. This helps my mind breathe.
I have this system where I read the required reading, and put the elaborate notes as well as a simplified summary + the exact source with page numbers into a table. Then I can sort of copy paste the essay into being. But I think I’ll add some of your points into my system (like the point criteria). Thank you!
I finished my master's in London (Global Political Economy) and now I am again in school, this time following my true passion, that is Counselling. I love studying and not sure when I will end with schools :) I study on my own as well, gathering knowledge it's a great passion of mine! Great video, so rich in valuable information!
As someone who is literally taking a break from her GPE readings (and lowkey dying from the unit) to watch this video, cheers to you for finishing your masters and good luck in school!
I wish I watched this at the beginning of my Master of Teaching. I’ll test this out for my electives. I have at least 8 papers to write. I’m keen! I might also see if I can use this for my students 😱
Hello Elizabeth, one of your video on taking college notes on macbook helped me a lot saving lots of my money.. I already had a old ipad and was tempted to purchase a new ipad pro M1 again 😁 seing the apple promo ads . ha ha 😁. Later i realized making notes on Macbook is so nice & fast ( thanks to my typing speed & also your helpful video ) and i saved my money . That money i used to purchase a new iphone 13 pro max ( Sierra blue ) . Thanks a lot to you for all valuable informative videos 🙏🙏
I recall you demonstrating similar in the recent BASB course and I loved it. Thank you for recording and publishing it. I am just adding this to the course I teach, Research Methods for Advanced Engineering, in a Masters degree programme, as required watching for all of my students. Absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much again.
Thank you, this is a brilliant way of structuring an essay because it allows you to process each section without holding the entire essay in your mind at once. 👌❤ Note that you can do this in a spreadsheet just as well. I colour code each section to remind me if I happy with it or not.
thank you very much for explaning and making my life much easier , before , my essay can take forever due to all of this....... , but you made this so much easier , to make this layout to use for my studying
I actually quicken the process a little, I spread a net out look up a couple of books, articles etc find articles that work with what I'm working on. Build a framework of what I want to say a simple one that works is beginning which is explaining the issue, 3- 2 main points that I want to state( this also helps me look up what I need to know to get through the essay.) An outro. I've used this for so many different types of papers over the years. Takes about 2 hours 3 at max. I just write them on notepad. Not convinced on how notion would speed up my process.
I used this method for my thesis and it works really well! I would do this process per chapter. The spreadsheet is a bit bigger, and it takes a bit longer than 3 hours - especially if you haven't read and taken notes yet - but it works like a charm! When you're working on a larger writing project, it's so helpful to just imagine you're writing a string of smaller essays. You're just calling them chapters. If this is your own thesis - it's highly likely that you're going to be creating the elements of your second column yourself: but don't skip! This will help you sort out your argument. Highly recommend this strategy for your thesis!
This is a fantastic system and exactly the reason I keep a commonplace book, similar to Ryan Holiday's note taking system. It makes future work a case of just bringing all your reasources in line and you stitching them together with some of your own words
Hi Elizabeth! Thank you so much for this useful and inspiring video. Would you also give us a bit more insights on your research process? How long does it take you to conduct your research and find all these useful quotes and studies?
I find marking schemes often use really elaborate language that I don't often process well, so I copy and paste it in to chatGPT and ask it to reword it into colloquial language. I'm then able to split it up into understandable chunks.
Your content is the best, your motivation! I’m not even in uni and it just felt like I wanted to do an essay to apply this 😂Congratulations on your 100k subscribers🎉🥳 you will quickly grow much more as your content and your attitude are so incredible !
Wow, amazing,Elizabeth, i have to say that you're so smarter than the rest of us, i remembered when i was graduate student as Chinese philosophy ten years ago, i had big headache about graduate essay😂💖
You can trait cut down on your time finding sources using AI. I like to use Google Gemini to say "X is my claim, I need you to find 3 sources that support it and two that contradict out" and then I'll give more criteria if there is any.
Hi Elizabeth your growth on TH-cam has been super inspiring to watch, so much so that I uploaded my first very crusty video today so thanks for that and all the best!
Thank you Lizzy for this video 💌 !! Surprisingly, my method of doing essays much resembles yours but while your ones have to be precise and on point, mine are literary ones so they need more prettification, (if you will) Also I use the same breaking down and compartmentalising technique for learning anything I need to learn and this system has helped A LOTTT I have a small request as an ardent subscriber of yours , can you please make a video about the general-getting-acquainted-with-and-comprehending-notion video because I really wanna combine all book quotes and my opinions about them as well as plethora of information I consume everyday!!! I’d be immensely grateful 🍇💌
Agreed! I’m so intimidated by Notion but I desperately need something better than a word doc, my notes app and my reminder list to sort everything out!
I just love your way of study technique s... they are so so relevant and quite practical to follow... I just love watching and listening to you contents... I do not spend much on youtube but I never miss your contents, just amazing and so practical
Ooh Thank you a lot You speak so fast and simple I don't regret any single video of yours that I watched Beautiful, smart and very talented girl You look like a French girl actually and I really like it, I love your long hair Please continue posting such videos 👍
This video is helpful indeed, but there is no way it's 3 hours work. You also usually need to read about 10 academic materials to quote from, which in no way would take you only 60 minutes to do....
Love this video! Thanks for sharing. I just watched last Ali’s video where you were giving a presentation. I was wondering why don’t you also create a similar video about the processing of making engaging presentations and prepare for it? Thanks!!! ☺️☺️☺️
Nice tips but I find this so difficult to get my head around this. Is there a writing course people have done to get this awesome experience? Been a while since I have finished highschool learning to write an essay
This is such a great approach. Do you have any tips for using this on bigger projects such as longer theses for masters or doctorates? You are brilliant. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
I'll try to apply something similar to article writing, I love how structured it is! I'm about to implement Zettelkasten for the first time and I was thinking of using obsidian, but notion is tempting after seeing your videos. We'll see.
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I have always written the introduction last. It makes sense to me.
Things I learnt from this video:
Step 1 (5 -10 mins):
- Create a notion database (or just a checklist) with the mark scheme, split into intro, main body and conclusion
Step 2 (20 mins):
- In the intro, set the scene (without repeating the question itself). Say the importance of the topic
- In the main body, work out what order you want the paragraphs based on the marking criteria
- In the conclusion, talk about the wider context of the topic
Step 3 (30-60 mins):
- Make a central point for each paragraph (can be a quote or study too!)
- Have a column for quotes or sources
Step 4 (60 mins)
- Start writing your essay - based on the detailed plan we already have
- Just need to elaborate on the key ideas / sources which we have already decided on
Then take a break (hours - days)
Then come back and do a 30 min review of your work
I have a low attention span and really struggle with getting the important points from a video, so this comment and you made on the How I Remember Everything I Read video have been lifesavers! I really appreciate it!
Thank you so much for this!! But, what to do if we have to write '2' essays for 15 marks each within 3 hours?
Thanks to u now everything is simpler and easier thank uu
Hardest part is finding the right resources in social sciences and reading through a lot of stuff, hoping there will be something you can use in there ...
The marking criteria trick (copy pasting the marking criteria to structure your essay) is spot on! When I was marking essays as a university tutor, I could only really award points for answering the marking criteria. It pained me to not be able to give points to well written essays that didn't answer the criteria.
This interesting to know I really struggle with my planning as I never plan it.
😊😊😅
I wish I had discovered this video when doing my bachelors!
This is how we write articles as journalists. Such a smart idea, the first 5 minutes of building the structure make it much easier, in addition to quotes and sources' statements. In a few months, you just became one of my favorite TH-camrs ❤
I've just finished uni... would have loved this video as a first year.
I cannot thank you enough for this video! Yes, currently I am writing a 6000 word MA essay within an only few days - hectic (reading foundation has been laid thankfully). But even in future when I have more time available - this structure will help so much in just getting started! Those first words on a blank page are daunting. This helps my mind breathe.
I have this system where I read the required reading, and put the elaborate notes as well as a simplified summary + the exact source with page numbers into a table. Then I can sort of copy paste the essay into being. But I think I’ll add some of your points into my system (like the point criteria). Thank you!
Oh and I’m starting to use Mendeley for managing the references.
Hey -- I think in this way too! I'm going to try this for an essay I've had trouble writing for the past month. Thank you!
I finished my master's in London (Global Political Economy) and now I am again in school, this time following my true passion, that is Counselling. I love studying and not sure when I will end with schools :) I study on my own as well, gathering knowledge it's a great passion of mine! Great video, so rich in valuable information!
As someone who is literally taking a break from her GPE readings (and lowkey dying from the unit) to watch this video, cheers to you for finishing your masters and good luck in school!
I wish I watched this at the beginning of my Master of Teaching. I’ll test this out for my electives. I have at least 8 papers to write. I’m keen!
I might also see if I can use this for my students 😱
Hello Elizabeth, one of your video on taking college notes on macbook helped me a lot saving lots of my money.. I already had a old ipad and was tempted to purchase a new ipad pro M1 again 😁 seing the apple promo ads . ha ha 😁. Later i realized making notes on Macbook is so nice & fast ( thanks to my typing speed & also your helpful video ) and i saved my money . That money i used to purchase a new iphone 13 pro max ( Sierra blue ) . Thanks a lot to you for all valuable informative videos 🙏🙏
I recall you demonstrating similar in the recent BASB course and I loved it. Thank you for recording and publishing it. I am just adding this to the course I teach, Research Methods for Advanced Engineering, in a Masters degree programme, as required watching for all of my students. Absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much again.
every time i see your video for very many repeated times , im getting a new insight of your video and im carrying away new resources with me everytime
Thank you, this is a brilliant way of structuring an essay because it allows you to process each section without holding the entire essay in your mind at once. 👌❤
Note that you can do this in a spreadsheet just as well. I colour code each section to remind me if I happy with it or not.
thank you very much for explaning and making my life much easier , before , my essay can take forever due to all of this....... , but you made this so much easier , to make this layout to use for my studying
This idea of outlining with a notion db is amazing!
Great video, I’ll give Notion a try. Also, royal blue is a great color on you!
I literally found this GODLY video a day before my exam. So grateful! Thank you so much
I actually quicken the process a little, I spread a net out look up a couple of books, articles etc find articles that work with what I'm working on. Build a framework of what I want to say a simple one that works is beginning which is explaining the issue, 3- 2 main points that I want to state( this also helps me look up what I need to know to get through the essay.) An outro. I've used this for so many different types of papers over the years. Takes about 2 hours 3 at max. I just write them on notepad. Not convinced on how notion would speed up my process.
Have you already written a thesis? If so, could you explain how in the same way? This was great!
I used this method for my thesis and it works really well! I would do this process per chapter. The spreadsheet is a bit bigger, and it takes a bit longer than 3 hours - especially if you haven't read and taken notes yet - but it works like a charm! When you're working on a larger writing project, it's so helpful to just imagine you're writing a string of smaller essays. You're just calling them chapters. If this is your own thesis - it's highly likely that you're going to be creating the elements of your second column yourself: but don't skip! This will help you sort out your argument. Highly recommend this strategy for your thesis!
As a regular 'leave it to the last minute' wretch, this was a great asset to my procrastinative tendancies.
Thanks a lot! This really helped
Thanks! Your method helps me the most. i prefer writing left to right instead of top down
This is such a good technique! Thank you so much! I'm still in school but I think this should work pretty good though
This is the most amazing advice I have ever heard for writing,
This is a fantastic system and exactly the reason I keep a commonplace book, similar to Ryan Holiday's note taking system. It makes future work a case of just bringing all your reasources in line and you stitching them together with some of your own words
An Britain telling 'fastly' is all I ever wanted in my life.
I am definitely going to use this system
Long Distance. Teaching, Learning, Healthy Lifestyle, Organic Farming.We like your way to explain.Thanks.
the best timing ever! i have to write my first essay next week :/
Yooooo Elizabeth this is SUPER HELPFUL!!! I have 2 midterms due next week and kind of have to get started ASAP 😅. Thanks!!!
You are glorious Elizabeth and so is your channel!
Just returning to school after 23 years and have never written an essay, so glad I came across this video.
I want to set up a new learning system formuni today, timemto binge watch your vieos and rake notes!!
Congrats on One Lakh subscribers!!! ❤️❤️
Awesome video! And congrats on the sponsorship w/notion
I cannot thank you enough for this video. It has been incredibly helpful.
Congratz on the 100k subscribers!
Genius. Also - happy 100k! You deserve it.
Great content! Actually have to write my first proper Essay in so many years of university so this comes in super handy!
Hi Elizabeth! Thank you so much for this useful and inspiring video. Would you also give us a bit more insights on your research process? How long does it take you to conduct your research and find all these useful quotes and studies?
So cool that you take the time to put on your scrubs for the medicine-related videos! :-)
Introduction, Body, Conclusion
Introduction: set the context
Marking scheme
Great video !!!
Would love a video on tips & tricks on managing full time job with studies cause many including me struggle with it
I find marking schemes often use really elaborate language that I don't often process well, so I copy and paste it in to chatGPT and ask it to reword it into colloquial language. I'm then able to split it up into understandable chunks.
Wow! She's fast in explaining the process. Thanks for the details and in-depth run through of the guidance and tips in using Notion.
Really it's not easy to achieve you are hardworking and thanks for the more information for medical and other.
Your content is the best, your motivation! I’m not even in uni and it just felt like I wanted to do an essay to apply this 😂Congratulations on your 100k subscribers🎉🥳 you will quickly grow much more as your content and your attitude are so incredible !
Hi Elizabeth, I used this method to write my paper this week and it was definitely helpful and made the process much less overwhelming. Thanks :)
Thank you so much! I'm just writing an essay so that's great
I so need this video!!! Congratulations on 100K !!!
Thanks! I am in my last year of college, I will definitely try this.
Please do more University Videos! I’m a first year and it’s super helpful
Wow, amazing,Elizabeth, i have to say that you're so smarter than the rest of us, i remembered when i was graduate student as Chinese philosophy ten years ago, i had big headache about graduate essay😂💖
You can trait cut down on your time finding sources using AI. I like to use Google Gemini to say "X is my claim, I need you to find 3 sources that support it and two that contradict out" and then I'll give more criteria if there is any.
I'm starting to love your channel. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE TIPS
Congratulations for 100K subscribers. Wishes from India . My BIG sister found your Vlog really helpful .THANKS AGAIN
This is AMAZING content!! Thank you so much!!
Hi Elizabeth your growth on TH-cam has been super inspiring to watch, so much so that I uploaded my first very crusty video today so thanks for that and all the best!
Yayy! Congratulations on your 100k Liz!! ❤ the strategy seems so helpful! Will have to try it next year in my post graduation.
Thank you Lizzy for this video 💌 !!
Surprisingly, my method of doing essays much resembles yours but while your ones have to be precise and on point, mine are literary ones so they need more prettification, (if you will)
Also I use the same breaking down and compartmentalising technique for learning anything I need to learn and this system has helped A LOTTT
I have a small request as an ardent subscriber of yours , can you please make a video about the general-getting-acquainted-with-and-comprehending-notion video because I really wanna combine all book quotes and my opinions about them as well as plethora of information I consume everyday!!! I’d be immensely grateful 🍇💌
Agreed! I’m so intimidated by Notion but I desperately need something better than a word doc, my notes app and my reminder list to sort everything out!
6:14 column headings
I just love your way of study technique s... they are so so relevant and quite practical to follow... I just love watching and listening to you contents... I do not spend much on youtube but I never miss your contents, just amazing and so practical
But todays video lacks your black appearance 😅😅😅
Ooh
Thank you a lot
You speak so fast and simple
I don't regret any single video of yours that I watched
Beautiful, smart and very talented girl
You look like a French girl actually and I really like it, I love your long hair
Please continue posting such videos
👍
This is soo useful, thank you so much!
Great video. Do you make your final version in some other program like word or pages and how do you do references, with end notes or footnotes?
Thank you very much. I will give Notion a try.
Not going to lie, this video has changed my life.
Very high-value video. I'll make sure to adapt some of the points into my method. Congrats on 100K subs.
This video is helpful indeed, but there is no way it's 3 hours work. You also usually need to read about 10 academic materials to quote from, which in no way would take you only 60 minutes to do....
Congratulations on 100k well deserved
The real speed of the video x1,75
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BVASANTHKUMAR
Great timing! I just started working on an essay, very helpful!
And this is your best piece of content so far! Really good ❤️
Thank you so much🥹I have been trying to do a 800-1,000 page essay and I have been on it for hours!
Love this video! Thanks for sharing. I just watched last Ali’s video where you were giving a presentation. I was wondering why don’t you also create a similar video about the processing of making engaging presentations and prepare for it? Thanks!!! ☺️☺️☺️
Nice tips but I find this so difficult to get my head around this. Is there a writing course people have done to get this awesome experience? Been a while since I have finished highschool learning to write an essay
What a speed of speaking ❤️
Thank you so much for this! It's incredibly helpful 💜
OMG you're so smart
I like these ideas
This is such a great approach. Do you have any tips for using this on bigger projects such as longer theses for masters or doctorates? You are brilliant. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
Thank you so much or sharing your skills. It will help me to make my assignment in uk uni
Happy new year and Merry Christmas's.
Extremely useful - thank you.
Congrats on 100k subscribers.
Please elaborate on your decision to work full time while studying and how you did that! I'm thinking of doing the same thing and would love advice!
this is a great tip for any writing task.
great help doing my foundation degree
Thanks so much for this video!!!!!! So useful!!!
Loved the Content Elizabeth.Btwn what's the font you are using in your video..It looks good & classy
Amazing . Thank you.
I love this method！
You are an inspiration ❤️
Thank you!) Love it!
Congratulations for 100k
Great tips, thank you so much
Congratulations for 100 k
I'll try to apply something similar to article writing, I love how structured it is!
I'm about to implement Zettelkasten for the first time and I was thinking of using obsidian, but notion is tempting after seeing your videos. We'll see.
Where are you Elizabeth? I miss listening to you? No podcast either? :(
Omg thank you so muchhh for this