The Student S Guide To Writing Essays

Boost your confidence and grades with this step-by-step guide to tackling university writing assignments.

This text is divided into two sections: a core element focusing on basic skills which everyone needs to master in writing essays, and a subject-based section which takes the student to a more advanced level.

Writing Philosophy: A Student's Guide to Reading and Writing Philosophy Essays, Second Edition, is a concise, self-guided manual that covers how to read philosophy and the basics of argumentative essay writing. It encourages students to master fundamental skills quickly--with minimal instructor input--and provides step-by-step instructions for each phase of the writing process, from formulating a thesis, to creating an outline, to writing a final draft, supplementing this tutorial approach with model essays, outlines, introductions, and conclusions. Writing Philosophy is just $5 when packaged with any Oxford University Press Philosophy text. Contact your Oxford representative for details and package ISBNs.

A comprehensive writing text for students in all disciplines. Covers every aspect of the writing process, from coming up with an idea to the final written product, whether it be an essay, exam essay, tutorial paper, or report. Illustrates each stage of the process of writing with examples and models. Offers strategies for the ``prewriting stage'': thinking the question through, defining a purpose, selecting evidence, and choosing a presentation structure; for the writing stage: constructing introductions and conclusions, sustaining a line of argument, and choosing an appropriate level of technicality or generality; and for the editing stage: reworking sentences, ensuring that each paragraph has a focus, and that the argument flows well throughout the paper. Contains notes on referencing systems, bibliographies, and on punctuation and spelling. Includes many examples of good writing drawn from a wide variety of subjects.

This book gives students an answer to the question, “What does my professor want from this essay?” In lively, direct language, it explains the process of creating “a clearly-written argument, based on evidence, about the meaning, power, or structure of a literary work.” Using a single poem by William Carlos Williams as the basis for the process of writing a paper about a piece of literature, it walks students through the processes of reading, brainstorming, researching secondary sources, gathering evidence, and composing and editing the paper. Writing Essays About Literature is designed to strengthen argumentation skills and deepen understanding of the relationships between the reader, the author, the text, and critical interpretations. Its lessons about clarity, precision, and the importance of providing evidence will have wide relevance for student writers.

Essay Writing is a student guide with a mission: to enable students to write better essays and get the grades they deserve by demystifying the essay-writing process. MunLing Shields places essay writing within the larger university experience for students. In a clear and easy to understand way the author guides the reader through the process of writing successful university essays by looking at essay writing in the context of academic communication, academic culture and different learning styles and approaches. This book: Helps students study more independently and learn more meaningfully to write better essays Offers invaluable insights into the way tutors see essays Explains why essays are set, and how to understand the rationale behind them Demonstrates how best to approach answering the question. This highly accessible 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, and fluency and appropriateness of style and language. 'An excellent guide for students new to writing essays at university' - David Ellicott, Senior Lecturer in Youth Justice and Youth Studies, Nottingham Trent University SAGE Study Skills are essential study guides for students of all levels. From how to write great essays and succeeding at university, to writing your undergraduate dissertation and doing postgraduate research, SAGE Study Skills help you get the best from your time at university. Visit the SAGE Study Skills hub for tips, quizzes and videos on study success!

Writing Philosophy is a concise primer that covers all of the basics of argumentative essay writing. Step-by-step instructions are included for each phase of the writing process, from formulating a thesis, to creating an outline, to writing a final draft. Even students who are new to philosophical reading and writing will be able to master skills quickly with minimal instructor input. An ideal supplement for almost any philosophy course with a writing component, Writing Philosophy distilsa vast body of invaluable advice into simple rules that students can easily remember and apply.