Essay Writing Skills: Essential Techniques to Gain Top Marks

by Jacqueline Connelly, Patrick Forsyth

Writing essays is a major part of many higher education courses. A well written essay can make the difference between a pass and a fail in coursework assignments, dissertations, personal statements, graduate school applications and exams.

Essay Writing Skills offers practical and proven ways for students to maximize their success in all aspects of essay writing. From planning a first essay to assessing primary and secondary sources, it will help the student write in a systematic way that presents a convincing and academically sound argument. The book provides instruction and advice on good research techniques, grammar and accuracy, creating an essay plan, and correctly citing sources.

Also including a range of real life example essays and insider knowledge on how essays are assessed, Essay Writing Skills is an indispensable source of guidance for students that wish to improve the quality of their written work.

Genres: Writing, Academic

152 pages, Paperback

First published April 3, 2012

Reviews

[Sai Preetham · Rating 1 out of 5]

Too general points and unintended content is filled. No clear cut explanation and summarized points.

[Ahmad Rashad · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book was useful for a beginner like myself, I learned a lot about essay writing techniques. However, it is quite hard to focus while reading it