Writing academic essays
The main areas of confusion whilst writing essays are:
- understanding the question
- academic style and context of writing
- presenting and supporting an argument
- structure of the essay
There are a selection of leaflets which contain detailed examples, descriptions and exercises for you to do.
Resources
Leaflets
Essay writing checklist (available from L205 Ked Rd library)
Learning Skills Resource Bank
- Nos.39-41 Planning and Writing Essays
Open Teaching Toolkit
- Analysing essay questions; writing skills
- Writing essays and dissertations
- Doing a project
- Finding, using and analysing information and evidence
- Presenting your work, making it look good
- Action planning: Identifying actions; making recomendations
- Handling time and pressure
- Starting new documents with Office 2010
- Working with documents Office 2010
- Table of contents Office 2010
- Drawing tools Office 2010
Books
Books on essay writing can be found at the 378.17 classification mark in the library.
Online
WrAssE - Produced by the University of Plymouth, 'The Writing for Assignments E-Library project is a resource to help people learn about writing at university'. Includes samples of good writing technique.
Learn Higher - Advice for writing at University level and other study skills topics.
