Essay Writing Tips from the Queen of Procrastination

I have a cheek to write a blog post on essay writing tips when I myself should be writing an essay ATM *on the failure of appeasement in preventing WW2 for those of you who would like to know*.

Going into my 3rd year of university soon *whatttt?!?* I've written a fair few essays in my time and in all honesty I think half the battle to writing a good essay is all about the techniques you use.  Get the technique right and your half way there to acing a 1st or strong 2:1 in your essay.

 

1) If there's been one thing that I can take away so far from my years of essay writing its this, RTFQ!! Sound like some intelligent coding that's so complexed its going to change your world?....well in a way yes! Read The 'Flipping' Question! Seriously never underestimate the importance of the actual essay question, its what the examiners want to be answered so don't decide to craft the question to suit yourself !

2) Make Time to write a plan.  A stage that many a time I've been tempted to skip but deep down a plan is the pizza base, if you like, to your essay.  Make a strong plan organised of  when and where certain factors are going to come into play and it will make writing the actual essay 10X easier.  A strong pizza base holds the ingredients on top of it together. I do realise I've been comparing a plan to pizza......mmmhh

3) Follow the plan, follow the plan and stay on track

4) Read widely, don't just read what your university has advised you to read surf the web and find other articles that could make your argument stronger.  Many books are free to read online!

5) As you the find quotes that your going to use in your essay, make sure to keep a note of the page numbers, seriously there's nothing worse than when it comes to referencing and you suddenly realise that you've not jotted down the page numbers for quotes and are desperately trying to skim the pages of books *that could be used as a weapon there so heavy* in desperate search of the quotes!

6) Finite- Get someone else to read over your essay, see if  they understand what you've written and if they can spot any grammatical or spelling mistakes.  My Dad has read pretty much every one of my uni essays, the gem that he is! Make them a hot chocolate as a way of saying 'thank you' it really does help!

Hope these tips have been helpful for anyone reading, and please leave a comment below I love reading comments!

Gingerbread Snaps Beauty xx