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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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Close encounters of the word kind

Here’s this week’s essay In this section of the guide we’re going to use an actual essay title to understand…
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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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Starting to answer the question: after the storm

Organising your storm Now you’ve splurged everything you can think of onto paper, it’s time to think about organising what…
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Other ways of getting started

Issue trees This is a technique developed by an American writer called Linda Flower in a book called Problem Solving…
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How not to read

You take sixteen books & what do you get? The student in my office was close to tears. She was…
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You, the reader

Becoming a reader Just as writing at university is different from other sorts of writing so reading academic texts is…
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Choosing your reading

Know your library I was teaching a first year class on Wordsworth’s sonnet ‘Composed upon Westminster Bridge’. I’d set my…
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How to read: SQ3R

What is it? Many writers on essay writing and study skills recommend something called SQ3R. SQ3R is a reading tool…
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How to read: other techniques

Skimming, scanning & studying Another way to think about reading is in terms of different levels of intensity and speed.…
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