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This book provides students with an insider's view of what tutors and professors are looking for when they set essays and assignments. As such it will be a vital purchase for any student seeking practical and effective guidance on how to write successful essays and other written assignments. Both lively and authoritative in equal measure, Doing Essays and Assignments: Essential Tips for Students leads its readers through all of the skills that are required for the process of essay and assignment writing at a number of levels. Pete Greasley finds the perfect balance between a humorous style and a comprehensive approach, which highlights a wide range of specific practical tips that all students could benefit from. The tips are backed up by a survey of tutors, which highlights the things that markers are really looking for in students' work, paying particular attention to areas in which students commonly struggle. Topics include: planning, time management and deadlines reading and researching the literature writing introductions and conclusions answering the question critical analysis and argument referencing language, grammar and expression avoiding plagiarism This will be a must-have book for all university students. The book's clear organization and broad content have been developed from the survey of tutors and Greasley's own extensive teaching experience. As enjoyable as it is functional, Doing Essays and Assignments sets the essay writing process within a manageable structure that will prove a friend to students and markers alike. Pete Greasley is a lecturer at the School of Health Studies, University of Bradford.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Why You Should Read This Book (and Keep It to Yourself…) An Insight into the Marking Process How to Impress and How to Distress Markers Before You Start: Some Rules of the Game... Getting Started… and Getting Finished Reading and Researching the Literature Introductions, Conclusions and Structure What Was the Question again? Critical Analysis, Perspective and Argument The Greatest Source of ′Marker Distress′: Language, Grammar and Expression Referencing: An Academic Fetish for the Anally Retentive? Plagiarism How Not to Present Graphs and Charts Presenting Your Assignment: First Impressions Count Feedback and Feed-forward Appendix 1: A Sample Assignment Appendix 2: Writing Research/Project Reports Appendix 3: Critical Thinking and Sceptical Inquiry


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781849202039
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: SAGE Publications Ltd
  • Depth: 13
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 340 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1849202036
  • Publisher Date: 04 May 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 242 mm
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Essential Tips for Students
  • Width: 170 mm


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