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How to Write an Essay
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Esther has just graduated from a highly respected university with a degree in economics. She’s rightly proud of her achievement; but she admits that the first year was tough.
The most traumatic element?
Writing essays.
In her first weeks, she told me, she would work deep into the night, trying to put an essay together. “It was the words that were so difficult at the start,” she says. “All those academic terms. And then, putting my own thoughts into academic language was difficult.”
As the weeks went on, she realized that there was another question bothering her. “Nobody told me that I was entitled to my own views,” she says. “The idea that I could actually disagree with the academics I was reading seemed crazy. After all, they’d done all that research, and – who was I?”
Esther’s story is not unusual. You may have come to college or university with little training in writing essays. Even if you did well in secondary or high school, you may be unprepared for the challenges of essay writing at college: in particular, the need to research systematically, and the need to construct arguments in your essays.
And so few students get any help. Some tutors offer one-to-one help, and some colleges offer study skills sessions (although there’s evidence that students often resist the offer, perhaps because they feel that the sessions are remedial and demeaning). Again and again, I meet students who have never been told that there’s a simple system for producing an academic essay. Neither have they been told that the essence of essay writing is constructing an argument, rather than simply recycling what they’ve read.
With nobody offering this kind of straightforward advice, it’s no wonder that students can feel overwhelmed – or that so many resort to cheating.
This book will help you take charge. It will show you how to write essays that you can be proud of. It might (though I make no promises) even help you get higher grades for your essays.
Alan Barker - Personal Name
1st Edtion
978-87-403-0571-5
NONE
How to Write an Essay
Management
English
2013
1-134
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