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Structuring the components: Activity

You have been asked to write an essay on the following topic,

"Men and women differ in their self-evaluations of attractiveness. How do evolutionary theories account for the differences?"

Below are nine ideas or pieces of information that you need to elaborate on, or write a paragraph about. These ideas or pieces of information belong in one of the sections of the essay, that is, in the Introduction, the Body, or the Conclusion.

Your task is to determine where they should go, that is, in which section of the essay, the Introduction, the Body, or the Conclusion. Then you need to decide the logical order in which they should go within their section.

	Essay content
1	Sex differences in mating behaviour (such as differences in the number of sexual partners and the desired length of the relationship)
2	Description of evolutionary theories (ETs) and their main tenets
3	The focus of the essay
4	Summary of essay
5	Sex differences in the tendency to overrate one's own desirability to the opposite sex
6	Purpose of the essay
7	The evolutionary importance of attractiveness in a mate, and how this differs for males and females
8	The ability of evolutionary theories to account for sex differences in the tendency to overrate one's own desirability to the opposite sex
9	The factors that affect evaluations of one's own attractiveness and that of potential mates

Essay component	Essay content number:	Hints
Introduction 1	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9	Preview or print out the correct order
Introduction 2	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Body 1	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Body 2	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Body 3	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Body 4	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Body 5	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Conclusion 1	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Conclusion 2	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9