Essay and Cleopatra S Ethnicity
AA100 Tutorial 2: Cleopatra
I began the tutorial with a few comments on essay writing:
Essay writing 101
I asked people to read over the guide in the Assessment booklet and make sure that you are familiar with the conventions in it, particularly with regard to referencing.
Purpose
You are writing a course essay, rather than an article for publication. It is answering a specific question, rather than presenting original research (except in the EMA). You are trying to demonstrate that you understand the course content, that you can develop an argument and that you have, or are developing, the skills that the course requires.
You need to answer the specific question as fully as possible: avoid tangents!
You also need to write concisely: you only have 500 words for each section of the essay
Make sure that you essay is:
Clear - Make sure you understand the question! If not then ask, either myself or other students (check the forum). - Aim for a logical progression through your essay. Make sure it has structure. - Make it easy for me to understand what you are trying to say. Good writing should not need multiple readings . . . - Presentation is important. Word processing obviously removes many of the issues of handwritten essays, but even so make sure that it is properly spaced, justified etc. If you are submitting handwritten essays then make sure that they are fair copies, i.e. legible, no crossings out . . .
Concise - The first TMA in particular is very short (comparatively!), so there is no real space for florid intros etc. You need to make sure that everything that you write is to the point. - Be particularly careful of biography. It is sometimes useful as background or context but is very often completely irrelevant to the question asked
Accurate - You are writing an academic essay, so you need to follow best academic practice. - Proper sentence construction, correct spelling and
I began the tutorial with a few comments on essay writing:
Essay writing 101
I asked people to read over the guide in the Assessment booklet and make sure that you are familiar with the conventions in it, particularly with regard to referencing.
Purpose
You are writing a course essay, rather than an article for publication. It is answering a specific question, rather than presenting original research (except in the EMA). You are trying to demonstrate that you understand the course content, that you can develop an argument and that you have, or are developing, the skills that the course requires.
You need to answer the specific question as fully as possible: avoid tangents!
You also need to write concisely: you only have 500 words for each section of the essay
Make sure that you essay is:
Clear - Make sure you understand the question! If not then ask, either myself or other students (check the forum). - Aim for a logical progression through your essay. Make sure it has structure. - Make it easy for me to understand what you are trying to say. Good writing should not need multiple readings . . . - Presentation is important. Word processing obviously removes many of the issues of handwritten essays, but even so make sure that it is properly spaced, justified etc. If you are submitting handwritten essays then make sure that they are fair copies, i.e. legible, no crossings out . . .
Concise - The first TMA in particular is very short (comparatively!), so there is no real space for florid intros etc. You need to make sure that everything that you write is to the point. - Be particularly careful of biography. It is sometimes useful as background or context but is very often completely irrelevant to the question asked
Accurate - You are writing an academic essay, so you need to follow best academic practice. - Proper sentence construction, correct spelling and