Doing Essays and Assignments
SAGE Publications Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84920-203-9 (ISBN)
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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.
Before his retirement, Pete Greasley was a Teaching Fellow in the Division of Health Research at Lancaster University. He has been marking student assignments for more years than he would care to remember, and not particularly enjoying it. He has conducted research and published academic articles in psychology, sociology, health, and education, and has also written an introductory book on quantitative data analysis. His research and teaching interests include psychological and social issues relating to health, sceptical inquiry relating to pseudo-science and the paranormal, and how to help students avoid common mistakes when writing their assignments. Prior to retiring, he spent much of his time supervising trainee clinical psychologists doing their research projects at Lancaster University.
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.5.2011 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 242 mm |
| Gewicht | 340 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84920-203-6 / 1849202036 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84920-203-9 / 9781849202039 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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