To get help writing an essay

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Do people get help with essays?Do you pay someone to do it with you? Or do it for you?

It is secondary school but quite important part of the qualification

Thing is, it's not an exam. It's clearly a piece of work that your child has had a long time to do and has had plenty of opportunities to ask for help on. Which they need to do now

But your English is very good.

I agree.

I'm still not entirely clear what the OP's child is expected to produce but...

I think there's misunderstanding and some dishonesty about theatre/drama qualifications - GCSEs and A levels. I remember the drama teacher at a school I worked at getting very frustrated with his A level students who were highly reluctant to write anything at all! They wanted to video themselves acting all the time.

These courses are not 'drama school', but I fear they're sometimes sold to students as this. They do have an academic, reflective and analytic element which requires mastery of essay-writing and argument-presenting skills.

As a former English teacher I used to think that what was asked of these (actually not very academic) students was extremely demanding. They're often asked to analyse and critique a particular production of a play - which requires thorough knowledge of the work as literature and THEN, on top of that, a sophisticated understanding of the decisions made in presenting it as a dramatic production. This was ironic considering that many of the students did not enjoy writing or intellectual analysis - I heard them moaning about precisely this!

But the drama department, I thought, had not been honest with them about what a drama A level involved.

10,000 words would be around 35-40 A4 pages using a 12 point font.
You need to get your ideas down first, and aim to do 2-3 pages a day, so over a calculated period of time that’ll be 10 - 15 days (at around four hours of work - see below, section on each topic).
start by writing down a list of the topics you will be covering, then for each topic, bullet point your observations and the highlights and lowlights of these.
Once you have enough topics, create an introduction to your essay stating what your essay will be covering - that can be 1.5-2 pages.
Tackle each topic in turn, expanding on the topics list and finding as much relevant information as you can for each, making arguments for and against each point, if you can and that is relevant.
Once you have covered all your topics, summarise these in a conclusion (I.e. explain what you have learned from the experience of researching and thinking about these) - again, 1.5-2 pages for this.
If you have E.g. 10 main topics, try to complete 3 pages on each, fewer in proportion if you have more topics and more if you have fewer topics.

Try to tackle each topic separately (researching, thinking about and writing each section in one stretch - whether over a couple of days or less).
Once you are happy about your sections, take a look and see if there are any connections between them, and make any revisions to the relevant sections to reflect this.
Get a friend to review your work (after spelling and grammar checks) and once you are happy, submit your work.
Good luck! It’s a challenge, for sure, but by breaking it down into sections it will help you to concentrate on just one topic at a time!

There is a Btec level 2 in Performing Arts which is equivalent to four GCSEs. However there is not one 10000 word essay required but several written pieces over the course consisting of practice logs and evaluation reports. Unless the OP comes back with a clarification on what exactly the qualification is then it’s seems very unlikely any awarding body would expect a 15/16 year old to do a 10,000 word essay.
OP I do agree the system of exams is imperfect but if it is the BTEC mentioned then that is not exam based but marked on coursework and live performance review and written reflection.