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Essay Writingcommon problems
Relevance
2. Always write out the question accurately and in full on both your notes and your essay script. 3. Plan your essays carefully, consult the wording, and relate each part of your argument to the topic(s) in question. 4. At each stage of the argument, you should keep asking yourself 'Is this relevant?', 'Am I answering the question?', 'Does this relate directly to the subject I have been asked to discuss?' 5. Each paragraph should contain just one idea or topic which is announced in its first sentence. This idea or topic should be directly related to the question or the subject you have been asked to discuss. 6. If you introduce a separate issue in order to illustrate some part of your argument, make sure that you return to the original subject as soon as possible. Part of your discussion should explain why and how this secondary issue is relevant.
Signposting
2. That is, you do not need to use expressions such as:
3. Just state clearly the point of your arguments and leave them to speak for themselves. 4. In a well-planned essay, this progression should be self-evident from the arrangement of your work. 5. A sound essay plan and a coherent structure will reveal the logic of your argument and the relationship of its parts. 6. Each new topic should be clearly identified or defined as soon as you begin dealing with it. This statement will provide all the indication needed of your intentions. 7. If you wish to some light indication of structure, it is perfectly acceptable to use formulations such as
8. The conventions on signposting may vary slightly from one subject to another. In some of the sciences it is necessary to announce in advance what you will be writing about.
Commenting on the process
2. Your tutor doesn't need to know in what order you assembled your evidence, or what difficulties you encountered during its composition. 3. You might wish to argue that the question raises a certain number of difficulties or crucial issues. This is acceptable - so long as you say what they are. 4. You should then go on to discuss their relevance to the subject in question, and maybe even suggest some answers to them.
Posing questions
2. Remember - you are supposed to be answering a question. 3. Avoid formulations such as:
Your own argument
2. That is, don't present your answer to the question as a mixture of your own remarks, woven together with quotations. 3. Here is an example:
Referencing
2. You should not include the reference as part of your text, as in the following example:
Creating structure
2. Good structure is a persuasive or logical sequence of the parts in an essay. 3. The order of parts is often determined by the nature of the subject. This order might be created by:
4. You can generate the parts of your essay by deciding which topics you will cover in your answer. 5. Each of these topics should be discussed separately - usually in at least one paragraph on its own. 6. If there is no natural order for your topics, you could deal with the smaller, less important items first. This leaves the larger, more important issues until the end of the essay.
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