Doing essays & assignments : essential tips for students /: essential tips for students. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Doing essays and assignments
• Further Information: Note: By Pete Greasley.
• Other Names: Greasley, Peter
• Contents: 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 -- Appendix 1: A sample assignment (with annotated comments) -- Appendix 2: Writing research/project reports -- Appendix 3: Critical thinking and sceptical inquiry.
• Publisher Details: London Thousand Oaks, Calif : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 808.066378; Academic writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric; REFERENCE -- Writing Skills; Academic writing; Electronic books; Handbooks and manuals
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781446210116; 1446210111
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-167) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.