2nd Edition

Writing Essays A guide for students in English and the humanities

By Richard Marggraf Turley Copyright 2016
158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

Essays are a major form of assessment in higher education today and this is a fact that causes some writers a great deal of anxiety. Fortunately, essay writing is a skill that can be learned, like any other. Through precise explanations, this fully updated edition of Writing Essays gives you the confidence to express yourself coherently and effectively. It demystifies the entire process of... Read more

1. How to write introductions

2. The middle section: structure & critics

3. More on the middle section: linkage

4. How to write conclusions

5. Grammar & punctuation

6. Improving your style

7. Quotations, footnotes, & bibliographies

8. Getting the most out of secondary sources

9. The undergraduate dissertation

10. How to write exam essays

Biography

Richard Marggraf Turley is Professor of English Literature at Aberystwyth University. He is the author of various scholarly articles and books on the Romantic poets, as well as three volumes of his own poetry and a novel, The Cunning House.