Understanding Essay Writing: A Guide To Writing Essays By Someone Who Grades Them
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A concise guide on how to write a good essay, written by someone who has graded a heck of a lot of them. It contains essay writing strategies, helpful tips, and a step-by-step process guide. The second edition has a sample essay and extensive examples of pragraph structure and paraphrasing. Learn how to get the highest grade possible for your work and avoid the mistakes that so many students make.
Hercules Bantas
Dr Hercules Bantas has been teaching and reading the human sciences for the better part of a decade. It is his opinion that he is too often immersed in some weighty tome or other, the authors of which always use one thousand words where one hundred words would suffice. It was while juggling no less than three weighty tomes by the same author and trying to understand what the fellow was trying to say that the idea of The Reluctant Geek Guides was born. He is well aware that publishing clearly written and unambiguous guides to important ideas in the human sciences is frowned upon in some circles, but he's going to do it anyway. Despite his well documented grumpiness, Hercules claims to like people and can be contacted by email at reluctantgeek[at]tpg.com.au.
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Understanding Essay Writing - Hercules Bantas
Understanding Essay Writing:
A Guide to Writing Essays by Someone Who Grades Them
2nd Edition
Dr Hercules Bantas
A Reluctant Geek Academic Guide
Melbourne, Australia
Smashwords Edition
Copyright Hercules Bantas 2010, 2013
Cover Image: A ballpoint Pen's Tip by Guillaume Carels. Source file http://www.flickr.com/photos/aliceinw/227116873/
Table of Contents
How to Write an Essay
The Basics
Content
Structure
Style
Step-by-Step Guide
Sample Essay
How to Write an Essay
Essay writing is a key skill in achieving academic success, but its usefulness is not restricted to the academic world. Good essay writing skills are a boon in the workplace and are useful in preparing all manner of written reports, memorandums, and submissions. What I find amazing is the number of poor essays I receive as an examiner. At least half of the essays I grade are sub standard. While most of the students who submitted those sub standard essays did enough to pass, their grades could have been far higher if their essay writing skills were stronger.
The high number of poor essays I receive indicates just how many university and college students do not know how to write a good essay. They muddle along, never achieving their potential and doing their academic and working careers a disservice. This guide gives students the skills they need to write an excellent essay and live up to their full potential, both at school and beyond. It contains essay writing strategies, helpful tips, and a step-by-step process guide.
The Basics
It is important that you, as a student, know how examiners grade essays so that you are aware of what you need to produce to get a good result. When grading essays, examiners aim to be objective and have a definite idea of what they want to see. A good essay must answer the question, it must contains the facts and observations that the examiner is looking for, it must contain arguments that are cogent (make sense), and it must be clearly written.
Content, structure, and style are the three variables that determine the overall grade that