Writing Essays

guidance notes for students

This is a best-seller - now in its sixth edition. It covers all aspects of essay writing, from analysing questions to the presentation of a finished assignment. Clear guidance notes may be used as a study programme, or a source of reference. Writing Essays also includes five sample essays - on current affairs, history, philosophy, sociology, and literary studies. Easy-access notes and clear presentation - suitable for students at all levels. Offers rapid answers to the common problems of writing essays, term papers, and reports.

Sample pages

What makes a good essay
Analysing questions

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Details

102 pages - A4 format
Sixth edition 1996
ISBN 0-9519844-0-3

Verdict

"My essay grades improved immediately" - Isobel Smith
[Open University student]

Full contents
A brief review - What makes a good essay - Abbreviations - Analysing questions - Bibliographies - Checking drafts - Colons - Conclusions - Dates - Endnotes - Examination essays - Footnotes - Generating ideas - Grammar - Instruction terms - Introductions - Jargon - Line references - Names - Narratives - Numbers - Paragraphs - Planning essays - Presentation - Punctuation - Questions - Quotations - Reading and research - Rewriting - Semicolons - Sentences - Signposting - Style - Taking notes - Tenses - Titles - Tone - Tutor comment - Typing - Word-processors - Writer's block - Writing strategies - Sample essays - Reference works - Index.

This book will help you to write better essays. Your grades will improve. You will understand the techniques and develop the skills required for all essentials.

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