How to Write Better Essays
Checklist 1 Is the content accurate? 2 Are the grammar, punctuation and spelling correct? 3 Have I distinguished clearly between ...
By taking out the unnecessary words the meaning is made clearer, sharper and more direct. A small sign nailed to a village tree ...
The following example presents no problem in understanding what is meant, but it does sound slightly pompous: Our constant deman ...
But your meaning will be clearer if you argue, A manufacturer of computer printers will be keen to tell you that theirs is the m ...
272 Revision In the 1970s subliminal messages were recorded onto the music played throughout some US supermarkets by managers, w ...
Revising the Content 273 only were traditional social classes changing with movement up and down the social structure, but cultu ...
274 Revision demanded the best product irrespective of where it was produced. Architecture, clothes, fashions, even the ways of ...
tences. Long sentences are very comforting and reassuring. They may be best suited to the development of the core elements of yo ...
276 Revision The final step With this done you will have completed the five-stage revision on your essay. As a result you shoul ...
of different lengths, you will begin to enjoy more confidence in your ability to develop your arguments and make your points in ...
Conclusion We started this book by drawing attention to the value of writing essays both in what you can learn from them and in ...
that you can allow yourself to write freely, knowing that you can sig- nificantly improve your essay later, when you let the edi ...
Bibliography Dorothea Brande, Becoming a Writer(London: Macmillan, 1984). Even profes- sional writers admit they are indebted to ...
abilities range of, 8, 56–9, 61–5, 178–81 unlocking, ix–x, 51– 4, 55, 63, 125–6, 132, 177–81, 258–60 see alsopatterns of study; ...
282 Index selective use of, seethesis statements showing rather than telling, 230–1, 264–5 too much of, 230–1, 264–5 types, 226– ...
Index 283 substitute for evaluation, 195 suspending judgement, 177–81 too much, 195, 197–8, 225–8 see alsoevidence ordering idea ...
284 Index reasons for, 240 systems for citing, 240–51 relaxing, 128–9, 133, 136 relevance, 9, 42–50, 52–3, 78–9, 143–4, 151–2, 1 ...
Index 285 words choosing the right ones, 211–14, 217–24, 269–71 rely on nouns and verbs, 220–1, 270–1 replace prepositional phra ...
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