Making Sense of Essay Writing

This is a straightforward, practical guide to essay writing in the humanities, written with a touch of humour by a long-standing (and long-suffering) expert in
this field.

The guide is divided into three parts:

(1) what you should do before writing the essay itself, especially how to tackle the various different types of essay and the importance of taking a very close look at the title of the essay;
(2) the correct way to go about the writing the essay, from punctuation, spelling, and other formal elements, via the correct style to adopt, to the bigger picture of how to set out and pace the essay, introduction, central section and conclusion;
(3) When the essay is completed, how you should set about checking through what you have written and what techniques to adopt to ensure that both form and content are improved to the highest possible level.

The guide is rounded off with advice on how to go about writing essays under examination conditions.