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What tutors want – 2

Departmental style sheets Many departments now produce style sheets or short guides telling students how to write essays. They can…
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Be prepared to be flexible

What Dr X wants Just as some tutors are happy for you to use ‘I’ in your essays and others…
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Being a writer

Meet the new you Being a new student can often seem like finding yourself in one of those science fiction…
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Thinking critically, thinking clearly

Thinking critically Writing things down in a learning log or just doing some writing every day will train you to…
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Speaking vs. Writing

Speaking vs writing 1: Alan buys milk Another way to think about what’s involved in writing clearly is to think…
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Why are you writing?

Why are you writing? 1: assessment & memory The short answer to this question is because you have to. You…
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Understanding what they want – again

They’re back – and this time they want an essay… In the ‘What tutors want’ section, we spent some time…
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Basic definitions

Pop quiz Journalist Robert Winder has this to say about essays: ‘In a way, an essay is just a grown-up…
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Different varieties of essay, different kinds of writing

There’s more to it than quoting experts Different essays are designed to do different things. Some essays are designed to…
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Glossary

analyse   To separate or break up something into its fundamental elements or component parts. To examine something complex in…
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Look, it’s my favourite word!

The author confesses About 25 years ago, when I was an undergraduate studying English Literature, I was given an essay…
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Starting to answer the question: brainstorming

You have the power to rebuild it Now you’ve broken your essay title down into its component parts to make…
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