| For many students writing essays can be a long, drawn out and painful process. It doesn't need to be like that however, because writing essays is a simple and straightforward process, provided you understand the main steps in the process, then focus on one step at a time. Students who are trying to do two or more steps at the same time tend to sit at their desks for hour upon hour, staring into space, or sucking the end of their pen, not knowing what to write next. The feeling is often described by the student as a mental block.
To help you get a clear understanding of the writing skills we teach, here is an outline of the major stages in the writing process:
- The first step is to make sure that you understand the question being asked, so that you know exactly what to write about. It's common for students to get poor marks for otherwise well written essays because they have not answered the question being asked.
- The next step is to do the appropriate research, so you can assemble the information to be analysed.
- The third step is to plan the order in which you are going to present your ideas, so that when you move onto the writing stage you can write your essay quickly and easily.
- The next stage is to edit what you have written.
- Finally you must present it as a properly formatted and typed document. It is easier to write your essays on computer, to make editing
and revision easier, and also because you are expected to submit your
written working in a professional manner. It is important that you know
how to use your word-processing package well. A couple of lessons on basic computing skills may save you a lot of time and frustration later on. If you haven't got a computer, we can help you determine which computer system will suit your needs and your budget.
We provide practical tuition for all stages of the writing process.
We can show you how to save hundreds of hours of wasted effort while you are at university,
and then afterwards when you enter the workforce.
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