Tips to Write an Essay- PPT
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TIPS TO WRITE 
AN ESSAY
Prepared by Mitchell Lee
TIPS
• Understand the question
• Plan and schedule
• Be critical
• Structure, flow and focus
• Read widely
• Quoting, paraphrasing and plagiarism
• Find a 'study buddy'
• Write academically
Today's 
Discussion
UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION
This may, at the face of it, sound like 
somewhat banal advice – but fact of the 
matter is that failing to properly 
understand the question set is one of, if 
not the most common reason behind a 
disappointing grade when it comes to 
essay writing. Are you being asked to 
critically evaluate something? Compare 
and contrast? Analyse a particular 
circumstance? Evaluate the usefulness 
of a particular concept?
PLAN AND SCHEDULE
By setting deadlines for yourself and committing to stick to 
them, you are ensuring that you won’t be left with too much 
work right before your hand-in date. It is also important that 
you leave time, ideally a couple of days, between finishing 
your first draft and proofreading.
BE CRITICAL
Critical thinking is what will make your essay 
stand out. It shows the marker that you are not 
simply repeating the arguments that have 
been fed to you throughout your studies, but 
actually engaging with theories in an academic 
manner.
STRUCTURE, FLOW AND FOCUS
How you present your argument is nearly as 
important as the argument itself, which is why it 
is imperative that your essay follows a logical 
structure. A classic piece of advice is to “tell 
them what you are going to tell them, then tell 
them, and tell them what you told them” – this, 
in essence, summarises the core introduction, 
main body, and conclusion structure of your 
essay.
READ WIDELY QUOTING, PARAPHRASING AND 
Writing may be the core task, PLAGIARISM
but reading is equally important. Academic writing requires a 
Before you start writing your careful balance between novel 
essay, you should conduct a argument, and drawing on 
broad search for relevant arguments presented by others. 
l iterature. Learning how to sift Writing a completely 'novel' 
through a large amount of data essay, without drawing on a 
is an important academic skil l .  single source, indicates that you 
You should start by searching haven’t made yourself famil iar 
through databases – Google with what has already been 
Scholar is a great tool for this – published; citing someone for 
using key words related to your every point made suggests that 
research topic. Once you fi nd an you haven’t produced a novel 
article that sounds promising, argument.
read through the abstract to 
ensure that it’s relevant.
FIND A 'STUDY BUDDY'
Having a similarly ambitious 'study buddy' is often 
undervalued by students, but the synergy achieved by 
working together can help both of you achieve 
considerably higher grades. It is important to note that 
you shouldn’t write your essays together, nor 
necessarily agree on the approach to be taken 
beforehand, as this leads to the risk of submitting two 
papers that are too similar – again linking back to the 
issue of plagiarism.
WRITE ACADEMICALLY
Another common issue – particularly amongst 
first and second-year undergraduates – is that 
they tend to use rather non-academic 
language:“In this essay I will look at how 
people who buy art use cultural capital. My 
theory is that having more cultural capital will 
change their taste in art, as they are able to 
understand the pieces differently to other 
people.”
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