How to Write Essays & Assignments

Smarter Study Skills

by Kathleen McMillan, Jonathan Weyers

How to write great essays covers everything a student is likely to need to research, plan and write academic essays and assignments that will get you great marks.

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction, Education

246 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Ilse · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a handy little booklet on how to write essays and assignments. As I already have some experience in this field, this book wasn’t particularly helpful for me, but absolute beginners can take a lot of useful tips from this. It is written in easy to understand language and kept very short (which is nice as no-one wants to read a 600-page book about how to write essays). All in all, a book I would recommend to those unfamiliar with how to write academic texts

[charlie]

decent. our professor gifted our whole class a copy of this each to help us with our essays, and although a lot of it was written for absolute beginners (which is unneeded for someone like me, doing my masters degree lol) it had some good structures and tips.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

3* really because it was not for me. Most suitable for secondary/high school students making the transition to univeristy. In fact it would be great for high school students themselves.
Overall a little light but still useful.

[Jas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite helpful, made some very good points. However I felt like a lot of points were repetitive.

[Silvia Vela Ruiz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Buen, cumple su función. Helpful.

[maDDie]

For uni

[AmbWitch · Rating 3 out of 5]

You can probably guess why I read this book. I found that most of the information was the same things you are always told but did take something new from it, the fishbone method of planning. I use it for plotting though, not my assignments. I don’t think it has led to any improvements to my essays or assignments.

[Ralph Lea · Rating 4 out of 5]

I should have read this in my first term of uni, it would have saved me a lot of trouble