How to Write Essays: A Step-By-Step Guide for All Levels, with Sample Essays

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
What are you being asked to do?......Page 14
Making a plan......Page 19
2 The Opening Paragraph......Page 24
‘Waffle’......Page 25
The length of the opening paragraph......Page 28
Useful phrases......Page 29
More opening paragraphs......Page 31
Paragraphs......Page 39
More examples of paragraphs......Page 43
Continuity......Page 47
The use of close references......Page 51
More about the body of the essay......Page 54
4 The Closing Paragraph......Page 56
Further examples of closing paragraphs......Page 58
5 Summary of Essay Structure......Page 63
6 Sample Essay 1: A Discursive Essay......Page 65
Essays on literature in examinations......Page 74
8 Sample Essay 3: Writing about Poetry......Page 84
9 Sample Essay 4: Another Essay on a Poem......Page 90
10 Sample Essay 5: A Media Studies Essay......Page 96
11 Sample Essay 6: History......Page 104
12 Sample Essay 7: Writing About a Novel......Page 110
13 Sample Essay 8: Writing in Response to a Critical Thinking Task......Page 121
14 Sample Essay 9: A Film Studies Essay......Page 128
15 Sample Essay 10: A Politics Essay......Page 137
16 Grammar and Accuracy......Page 146
Writing in sentences......Page 147
Punctuation......Page 151
The use of the apostrophe......Page 154
Their/there/they’re......Page 158
Were/where/we’re......Page 159
18 Bibliographies and Reference Lists......Page 164
19 Examinations......Page 167
Answers to Practice Sections......Page 170
E......Page 174
P......Page 175
W......Page 176