Argument Craft
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Chinese Thinkers and Cases in a John Locke Essay: How to Use Them as Evidence, Not Decoration
Mencius, Zhuangzi or a Chinese case can strengthen a John Locke essay, but only when it does real work. Four jobs a Chinese source can do, worked examples and a test.
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Thought Experiments and Analogies in a John Locke Essay: How to Build Cases a Marker Cannot Wave Away
A thought experiment earns marks only when it isolates one variable and survives the artificiality objection. How to build, borrow and audit cases and analogies.
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The First Page of a John Locke Essay: How to Open So the Marker Keeps Reading
With entry numbers the organiser has reported in the tens of thousands, your opening 250 words shape how the rest is read. The four jobs a John Locke first page must do, and five tests for your own.
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The John Locke Politics Essay: How to Argue About Power Without Writing Current-Affairs Commentary
Politics is the John Locke category most often written as news commentary. What markers reward instead: a contested concept, a claim someone could deny, and cases used as tests.
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The John Locke Public Policy Essay: How to Argue for an Instrument, Not an Opinion
A Public Policy essay is not an opinion column with citations. It names a goal, picks a measure, compares instruments and survives the evidence — here is the craft, step by step.
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The John Locke Theology Essay: How to Argue About Religious Claims Without Preaching — or Needing Faith
Theology is a John Locke category many students skip. It asks for argument about religious claims, not religious commitment — here is what a strong entry actually has to do.
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Why Strong John Locke Essays Still Get Cut: Seven Pitfalls (and Fixes)
Most cut John Locke essays are well written but capped by a fixable flaw: a safe thesis, description instead of argument, or drift off the question. Seven pitfalls and how to fix them.