Essay Writing
A Student's Guide
- MunLing Shields - University of Central Lancashire, UK
SAGE Study Skills Series
Essay Writing is a student guide with a mission: to enable students to write better essays by demystifying the essay-writing process.
In contextualizing essay writing within the larger university experience – communication, the academic culture, different learning styles and approaches and learning and teaching at university, this book helps students to study more independently, learn more meaningfully and to write first-class essays. Essay Writing explains why essays are set and demonstrates how best to approach them.
The book offers practical, in-depth guidance on each of the stages of the essay writing process - planning, drafting and editing, and relates them to the important sub-skills of information-gathering, reading academic texts, how to get the most out of lectures, referencing and citations, fluency and appropriateness of style and language. This is an easy to use, practical book designed to help students hone their essay writing skills and get the grade they deserve.
I have recommended this book to students in the first and second years of the course and also post registration students,
at least two students expressed an intersest in purchasing ,
i will offer to the course management team this coming friday for possible inclusion in reading lists
i will also plan to mention the book to pre registration nurses during tutorials
A little long, but a valuable guide neverthess, and would be best used over an extended period of improvement in essay writing. I was pleased to see a section on essay structure, including structuring of paragraphs, which quite a few of our students find problematical. I liked too the short section giving some of the most common mistakes in use of English - I would add incomplete sentences and confusion of although/however to the list.
An excellent book recommended to all my students
Contains highly relevant content that will assist them with their work
good for undergrads
We will be recommending this books to all new students for the coming academic year. Particularly useful are the chapters on introduction and conclusion and the body of the essay. Students find essay writing really daunting especially those who are returning to study after a long break and this book will help them to understand what they need to do.
excellent support for essay writing skills suited to undergraduate study - easy to use and practical in the way it has been written
Useful to offer to students new to writing academic asignments- I just wonder whether they would have the time! However, this is a good book to dip into, so it will be avaialble for all of my students to use!
This is a really helpful book for students returning to education, preparing for Higher Education. It equips them with all the essential skills of planning, writing and referencing.
A helpful book for students that are just starting to learn how to construct academic essays.
A really useful guide to help students master an essential skill, with practical tips and guidance to make student assignments a little more accessible.
