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How to read an essay question properly
The four words that change what a marker expects, and a two-minute method for turning a prompt into a working thesis.
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The four words that change what a marker expects, and a two-minute method for turning a prompt into a working thesis.
Four skeletons — argumentative, comparative, problem-question and literature-led — with what belongs in each paragraph.
Cases, statutes, books, journal articles and secondary sources, with the footnote and bibliography form side by side.
In-text and reference-list form for each, including the ones students get wrong: edited chapters, reports and datasets.
What differs, what does not, and how to tell which one your handbook means when it just says "Harvard".
Week by week from proposal to submission, with the two points where supervisors need slack in the schedule.
Enter the submission date; it works backwards to research, draft, revision and proofread windows with buffer built in.
One row per source, columns for method, sample, finding and limitation — so themes emerge instead of being invented.
Each stage of the cycle with a nursing example, and the reason reflections lose marks at the "analysis" turn.
Where the line sits, why patch-writing trips detectors, and a method that keeps the meaning and loses the phrasing.
Common wording across institutions on collaboration, proofreading and third-party help — and what to check in yours.
Nine questions that tell you whether yours is answerable in the word count you have been given.
The formats people get wrong most often, with a worked example of each. Set in monospace because a citation is a character-exact string.
Author–date in the text; reference list alphabetical by surname. Psychology, education, health sciences.
Author, initials. (Year). Title in italics. Publisher.
Include volume(issue), page range and DOI.
Organisation as author when no person is named.
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And if it does not, a manager will tell you honestly whether a full piece is the right answer or whether editing what you have would serve you better.