How to Write Better Essays

complex and sophisticated ways. You will learn how to analyse

a passage and extract the structure from what you read, and how to

criticise and discuss the ideas and opinions of authors, rather than just

reproduce them accurately. As a result you will be better equipped to

produce ideas that are genuinely your own.

Notes

1 Lem Ibbotson, ‘Teach us how, not what, to think’, Sesame, August/

September 2000 (The Open University).

2 B. F. Skinner, ‘Education in 1984’, New Scientist, 21 May 1964, p. 484.

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