Student-Friendly Guide: Write Great Essays!, 2nd edition

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Student-Friendly Guide: Write Great Essays!, 2nd edition

Student-Friendly Guide: Write Great Essays!, 2nd edition

Authors: Peter Levin

Published: November 2009 Pages: 200

eISBN: 9780335239900 | ISBN: 9780335237272

Front cover

Half title page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of tables

List of boxes

The strange world of the university – Read this first!

Introduction

Part 1 Getting started

Chapter 1 ‘I'm a slow reader

Chapter 2 Three stages in academic learning

Chapter 3 Making notes and translating ‘academic-speak'

Chapter 4 Coping with monster reading lists

Part 2 Reading purposes and strategies

Chapter 5 What are you reading for?

Chapter 6 Exploratory reading (1): How to get an overview

Chapter 7 Exploratory reading (2): How to use the World Wide Web

Chapter 8 Targeted reading: How to find and use key terms

Chapter 9 Dedicated reading: How to master a text

Chapter 10 How to work with secondary sources

Part 3 Writing essays

Chapter 11 Discovering what's wanted from you (1): How to clarify the topic

Chapter 12 Discovering what's wanted from you (2): Traps to avoid

Chapter 13 Essay types

Chapter 14 How to figure out your teachers' mindsets

Chapter 15 How your essay will be marked (1): ‘Tick-box' marking

Chapter 16 How your essay will be marked (2): Impressionistic marking

Chapter 17 Thinking it through: the importance of methodology

Chapter 18 How to create an essay plan

Chapter 19 Titles, abstracts, executive summaries and appendices

Chapter 20 How to use quotations

Chapter 21 The drawbacks of model essays

Chapter 22 The process of writing

Chapter 23 Writer 's block and how to overcome it

Part 4 Referencing styles

Chapter 24 How to use and cite sources

Chapter 25 Which style to choose?

Chapter 26 How to capture and list details of your sources

Part 5 Plagiarism and collusion

Chapter 27 The conscientious student's predicament

Chapter 28 How academic learning forces you to plagiarize

Chapter 29 Avoiding accusations of plagiarism

Chapter 30 The politics of plagiarism

Notes and references

Books on speed reading

Acknowledgments

Back cover