Essay Writing
A Student's Guide
- MunLing Shields - University of Central Lancashire, UK
SAGE Study Skills Series
MunLing Shields places essay writing within the larger university experience for students. In a clear and easy to understand way the author guides the reader through the process of writing successful university essays by looking at essay writing in the context of academic communication, academic culture and different learning styles and approaches. This book:
- Helps students study more independently and learn more meaningfully to write better essays
- Offers invaluable insights into the way tutors see essays
- Explains why essays are set, and how to understand the rationale behind them
- Demonstrates how best to approach answering the question.
This highly accessible book offers practical, in-depth guidance on each of the stages of the essay writing process - planning, drafting and editing - and relates them to the important sub-skills of information-gathering, reading academic texts, how to get the most out of lectures, referencing and citations, and fluency and appropriateness of style and language.
'An excellent guide for students new to writing essays at university' - David Ellicott, Senior Lecturer in Youth Justice and Youth Studies, Nottingham Trent University
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A little long, but a valuable guide neverthess, and would be best used over an extended period of improvement in essay writing. I was pleased to see a section on essay structure, including structuring of paragraphs, which quite a few of our students find problematical. I liked too the short section giving some of the most common mistakes in use of English - I would add incomplete sentences and confusion of although/however to the list.
An excellent guide for students new to writing essays at University
A helpful book for students that are just starting to learn how to construct academic essays.
