5 Essay Writing Tips 1) Use quality ingredients/sources
2) Have something to say
3) Hone your structure
4) Draft then redraft
5) Polish your tone
Referencing You must reference whenever you directly quote from a source, paraphrase from a source and refer to a visual source. After the main body (images embedded, labelled with creator, year and title), comes the reference list (text-based sources, alphabetical by surname), and then image list (references for images used). In-Text Reference or Citation
Paraphrasing
In-Text Images
Bibliography
My essay writing skills are currently quite rough due to the fact I haven't had to write one in about five years. My initial thoughts as to my writing process is to do the reading, take down notes and quotations, write a brief essay plan, use point, evidence, explain to write my paragraphs and then read it over and make improvements as many times as necessary. Aspects of academic writing I would like to improve is my understanding and use of proper language which I will try and develop using any vocabulary used in the lectures as well as the Academic Phrasebank suggested. I think that writing this essay will help me to develop the skills needed for next years dissertation because it is sort of like a practice run and I can hopefully get to grips with not only using the special language and referencing properly but also sourcing the relevant academic material and actually understanding it enough to paraphrase it. Notes:
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