Academic Writing

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Academic Writing
2. Essay Writing
   1. Learning Outcomes: essay writing
   2. Practice writing
   3. Brainstorming
   4. Generating questions
   5. Writing an assignment
   6. Think, Plan, Write, Revise
   7. Think
   8. The thinking process
   9. Plan
   10. Planning your reading
   11. Planning the essay
   12. Write - Getting the essay into shape: the structure
   13. Write - Getting the essay into shape: relevance and clarity
   14. Write - Getting the essay into shape: communicating with the reader
   15. Write - the main body of the essay
   16. Write - the conclusion
   17. What else do I need to do? Review the essay.
   18. What else do I need to do? Revise
   19. What else do I need to do? Appraise your work
   20. Final points to note
3. Different writing styles
4. Back to Study Skills Introduction

Essay Writing

You will probably find that you will spend a great deal of time writing essays during your course. This can be rather daunting because many students often want to focus on the course assignment before the course has even got underway. A great deal of tutorial time in the next few months is spent returning to the guidelines and discussion of essay plans as the impending assignment deadline approaches.

Does this sound like you?

The art of writing is a skill and skills need practice.

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