 Learning how to write powerful paragraphs is a critical skill indeed. Not only does it help you when it comes to English, but it cuts across other subject areas. Now, in past videos, I have suggested using what I call the PEE structure, the point evidence explanation. And I still stand by that. I think that's the best and most efficient way to really get into the practice of writing really effective paragraphs. However, in this video, what I wanted to do was to elaborate on that and add an extra L at the end of PEE to make it a PEEL paragraph or a PEEL structure. Essentially, the only addition is the linking back to the question. However, you can do that anyway using the point evidence explanation method and the point evidence explanation technique. Now, one of the elements that students do find surprising, indeed some of the students on my course have found it really challenging, is knowing, okay, I understand how to use this structure and this framework, I understand the different elements of this framework. However, what I struggle with sometimes, especially when I'm under exam conditions, is what are really good ways to even begin the point, the evidence, the explanation and then linking back to the question. So what I thought would be really helpful in this video is to basically go over the PEEL structure, so recapping the point evidence explanation, but then adding the link in. However, what I also want to add in is the words, literally the phrases that you can copy word for word at the beginning of each of them. So at the beginning of the point, this is what you can use. Beginning of evidence, this is what you can use. Explanation, this is what you can use and link, this is exactly what you can use. And I would guarantee you that if you take this approach, you will definitely see your essay writing really jump up. You will see a massive improvement, even in the feedback that you get from your teachers and most importantly, you will get really, really confident in terms of writing. Paragraphs are not pausing and wasting valuable time, particularly if you're writing under exam conditions, but to be honest, even if this is an essay submission that you're making, you don't want to spend hours and hours thinking about how to write the paragraph. It just does not really make sense. It's not a great use of your time. So now what I'm going to go over is literally the Peel structure. I will show you what different components go into this paragraph, but also as you can see behind me, I have basically framed and structured an example paragraph in response to a question. Okay, so I'm going to go over that to show you how you can slot in these opening phrases for each section. So firstly, as I mentioned, and I'll still stand by it, the point evidence explanation method is a really, really good method to adopt. However, the L is just an extra element to add at the end, okay? So this is how the Peel structure works and this is what the Peel structure includes. So firstly, it's a point. So you make your point and how you can open by making your point. And remember that the point bit is you referring back to the question, highlighting the keywords. Do make sure you refer to my video on keywords if you're not entirely clear and then answer the question directly, okay? So in your point, you're literally making your point and answering the question directly. Then, following on from that, you follow with evidence. Support your point by using words from the text. You also, going back to the point, you first make your point and what I would suggest with the point bit, so this is the purple bit here, begin all of your points with the writer effectively, dot, dot, dot. So the writer effectively presents blah, blah, blah. The writer effectively structures a text, blah, blah. Whatever it states, just begin with the writer effectively and then add the remaining bit of your point. Then as I mentioned, the evidence is you supporting your point by using words from the text to show that's not just your own words. You have also found it in the text and I would suggest open your evidence with, we learned that, dot, dot, we learned that the play states, speech marks and you add your evidence. Explanation, this is when you explain how the evidence supports your point and in the explanation bit add techniques. So for instance, in this case, I would suggest beginning your explanation with the use of, for instance, the use of a metaphor is really powerful because of XYZ metaphor is a technique I would suggest you mention. Also don't forget the technique, it can also be a structural technique, you can talk about sentence types, you can talk about beginning, verses end and so on. Finally, now this is the link, the final bit. So link is linking back to the question and I would suggest beginning your link, your final bit within your paragraph with thus the writer effectively, blah, blah, blah. Using the keywords from the question. Here is an example of just a random question I've taken from a past paper. Now, the question is, how has the writer structured the text to interest you as a reader? So let's see how we can apply the point, evidence, explanation and link method so the writer effectively for your point. We learned that for your evidence, the use of for your explanation and thus the writer for your link, okay? Now, I would suggest opening the paragraph in this way. So this is my example paragraph. The writer effectively structure the text to interest us as readers as we learn that the car is traveling in the darkness. So can you see here in the purple bit, I have began with the writer effectively, okay? Irrespective and it doesn't really matter if the text is a play, a novel, a poem, a short extract, there is a writer or even here you can add plural. So for example, if it's two sources you're referring to, you can state the writer's plural. However, you can state the writer effectively structured or whatever the keyword within the question is, okay? So that's the point. Then the evidence. We learned that night will soon fall as it would be dark by four. Now, the evidence here I have embedded it. I've made it flow as part of the sentence. So here the evidence is it would be dark by four. Open speech marks, close speech marks, okay? Again, I've opened my evidence by writing, we learned that. Now explanation, the use of a simple sentence focuses our attention on how difficult the journey is. Again, here as you can see the use of, you could use that for any explanation in any paragraph, okay? And finally, I've ended off with my link. Thus the writer focuses our attention on the dark setting to make us feel anxious and worried for travelers in the car, okay? Now of course here it's interest us as readers, hence I've linked it back to how this makes us interested because we feel really anxious and worried. So as I've mentioned, essentially when you're writing any really, really strong paragraph either opt for the point evidence explanation or the peel method point evidence explanation link, okay? And opening your point just really literally state the writer effectively does whatever the question states. Then your evidence is we learned that dot dot dot then you put your evidence. Then your explanation is the use of dot dot dot explain that. And then finally the link is thus the writer has going back to the question keywords within the question. So that's really it when it comes to peel paragraphs. As I mentioned, peel paragraph structure is a really, really good and effective structure to adopt when writing a really solid and powerful essay. However, you can basically use this as well as the peel structure for any kind of essay. Thanks so much for listening.