Doing essays & assignments : essential tips for students / Pete Greasley.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : SAGE, 2016Edition: 2nd editionDescription: xxiii, 211 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1473912075
- 9781473912076 :
- Doing essays and assignments
Item type | Current library | Home library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Chinhoyi University of Technology Libraries | Chinhoyi University of Technology Libraries | LB 1047.3 GRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | c.045103 | Available | BK0053583 |
Previous edition: 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-167) and index.
Why you should read this book (and keep it to yourself) -- An insight into the marking process -- How to impress and how to distress markers -- Before you start, some rules of the game -- Getting started, and getting finished -- Reading and researching the literature -- Introductions, conclusions, and structure -- What was the question again? -- Critical analysis, perspective, and argument -- The greatest source of "marker distress" : language, grammar, and expression -- Referencing : an academic fetish for the anally retentive? -- Plagiarism -- How not to present graphs and charts -- Presenting your assignment :first impressions count -- Feedback and feed-forward -- Writing research/project reports -- Doing a systematic literature review -- Presentations: a fate worse than death? -- Group project work, or 'hell is other people'.
Both lively and authoritative in equal measure, Doing Essays and Assignments: Essential Tips for Students leads its readers through all of the skills required for the process of essay and assignment writing at a number of levels. Pete Greasley finds the perfect balance between a humorous style which maintains the reader's interest throughout and a comprehensive approach which highlights a wide range of specific practical tips that all students could benefit from.
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