Writing an Essay – Writing a Dissertation | Study Coach

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Students will need to draft their own Essay and submit to Study Coach, we basically act as a personal tutor online and we have many years experience providing face-to-face tutorials in education, acting as a personal tutor, both at further and higher education. Study Coach will provide detailed feedback, consultation, proof-reading and teaching to help students achieve. We make suggestions, give examples on how to write an essay and how to raise the standard of academic work. We support non-traditional learners studying for a Degree or Diploma. Adult Nursing students, Social Work, Law, Youth Justice, Criminology, Health and Social Care, Public Health, Mental Health, Education and Teaching, Access Students have all vouched for the great support they have received through Study Coach. Students have described Study Coach as the best essay writing service available. 

Adult Students 

Non-traditional learners are in good hands with Study Coach, if you are the first in your family to study for a degree (well done) we are made for you. Adult learners may be studying on a full-time or part-time basis, learners may be studying for a formal or non-formal qualification. What adult learners do have in common is that they have been outside of education for a number of years and have taken the decision to re-educate self in order to find employment; returning to formal academic studies can be challenging and adult learners sometimes need to find appropriate support for their needs, hence the reason Study Coach is in existence. For many adult learners’ English is not their mother tongue, this can pose difficulties for students in understanding new theoretical concepts and drafting assignments. Morel Benard at Study Coach is very experienced working with adult learners, and with students whose first language is not English. Contact Study Coach for a chat, see contact details below and on our website Home page.     

Study Coach’s Website and Essay Writing

We hope that visitors will find our website relatively easy to negotiate.  To submit assignments students will require the ‘Services’ page, if you hover Services, you will see a drop down box, inviting you to select Essay Services, Dissertation (make your selection and get onboard). 

Waiting for your University tutor to return your first essay and subsequent marked assignments can lead to stress. A good result will clearly alleviate the stress, however a poor result can lead to prolonged stress, just remember that we are here for you, to help you make the necessary improvements. Let’s say that the feedback you receive for an essay says reduce descriptive writing and give more discussion, but you don’t fully understand what is required of you. Don’t fret about it, just get in touch and we will take time to teach you and highlight the steps you need to take in order to address your tutor’s comments. We will guide you to understand the learning outcomes and academic requirements. If you have been searching for an Academic Support Service close to home, to help with undergraduate studies then do get in touch. Wherever you are, whichever University you are studying with, we are close to you because we are online, we try to make the most of technology, if a Zoom meeting is required to aid understanding, this can be arranged.  

Essay Introduction

How to write an essay introduction is a question that some students will ask. 

Firstly, there are many ways to structure an introduction, since writing should also be creative. Yes, we know that the essay is academic, but it will also require creative thinking skills, to link conceptual ideas. In the essay introduction students will need to explain what the essay is going to do. Universities will usually provide a word count guide for the whole essay, all students should take note of the word count, but first year students should pay particular attention to essay word count when planning the essay. You don’t want to spend hours writing a 3000 word essay, when the essay guidelines states 2,000; you will then have to spend valuable time deleting 1,000 words. 

Essay Word Count 

In respect of assignment guidelines for individual sections of the essay, the guide might say: ‘Introduction, approximate 300 words’. Do remember this is a guide, you can write under or over 300 words. The introduction should explain the aim of the assignment, by including a brief explanation of the essay subject and you should outline the content you intend to cover. The introductory paragraph should explain how you interpret the question, and students should identify issues that they intend to explore in the body of the essay. The introduction should therefore provide a brief outline of how you will deal with each issue identified from analysing the essay title/question and say in which order you will present the issues. The aim is to briefly discuss what the research is about, say why it is important or significant? Try not to use the phrase ‘the essay will prove that’ you are dealing with theoretical ideas, you will find evidence to support arguments, but not ‘prove’ anything.     

Essay Writing Skills and Writing Style 

Essay Writing will require developing skills in critical writing and critical thinking skills. To score high, markers will expect to see a high level of discussion as opposed to a high level of descriptive content. A discursive essay and a critical thinking essay have much in common, in order to raise a discussion we must learn to think critically. Critical thinking skills assumes abilities in a range of skills such as categorising, selection and differentiation, these points are highlighted in Cottrell’s Study Skills book. An academic essay requires students to process information in order to assess research, analyse the methodologies used to identify flaws in the way we arrive at a conclusion. 

Critical Thinking Skills 

Critical skills include the ability to spot assumptions, identify inconsistencies, errors and merits of research arguments. Higher level critical thinking skills usually requires a combination of skills and attitudes, critical thinking skills will enable students to decide on a number of issues, for example: whether information included in a piece of published research is relevant to the research question and whether chosen methodologies are appropriate for answering research questions. In structuring the essay, your ideas should be clear to readers and ideas should be suitably linked. Paragraphs should be well structured and the style of writing should be in keeping with academic writing style, meaning that self-expression is not too chatty or flippant. We need to do our best to ensure readers won’t find the arguments presented confusing, and that language is straightforward and sentences are of reasonable length and are uncomplicated. Self-expression should be free of slang and colloquialisms, technical vocabulary should be used correctly, text should not be repetitive and with minimal reliance on researchers’ words. If there is too much reliance on researchers’ words remember that students run the risk of falling foul of plagiarism. 

Academic Writing Style 

Here is an example of non-academic writing style, this is cited from Cottrell’s Study Skills book. This first piece of text is conversational: Mount Pepe is going up – it’s going to take everything with it when it goes. And I mean everything – villages, farms, trees, the lot. It’s frightening to think of how powerful a volcano can be. Think of the damage they cause! Remember Pompeii and Mount Etna!

The second piece of text is in a general academic style: In order to assess whether it is necessary to evacuate the villages on Mount Pepe, three main factors need to be taken into consideration. The first, and most important, of these is the element of safety. According to seismic experts currently working on the volcano, there is likely to be a major eruption within the next ten years (Achebe 1997). According to Achebe, the eruption is likely to destroy villages over a radius of 120 miles (Achebe 1997, p7). 

When writing an assignment it is important to choose an appropriate writing style, in this case you should opt for the style used in the second piece of text.   

Stress Theory and Essay Writing

Stress is studied under the subject of psychology, writing essays and other academic assignments are known to be a cause of stress, this is not to say that  all students will experience negative stress; some students will actually thrive. This last statement is suggesting that stress can be both negative and positive. 

There are 3 steps to managing stress and we should all realise that too much anxiety can be a killer. We want to do well in assignments, to pass exams, to have an overall good/excellent placement linked to our University course, but we need to be mindful to take care of our mental well-being. 

Studying and Stressors 

How does Stress starts?

It starts with a Stressor, example of Stressors are:

  • Assignments Overload
  • Moving House
  • Work Overload
  • Exams
  • Traveling to university/placement
  • Time 
  • Relationships

Day-to-day activities are all potential stressors, note the word ‘potential’ meaning that the Stressors examples won’t necessarily cause everyone to feel stressed. Individualism, is important in stress, some students might develop exams anxiety and others take pleasure preparing for exams. Study Coach would like to raise students awareness about stress and invite students to give consideration of how best they can deal with stress. It is worthwhile understanding what can cause stress, so we can manage it.    

Step 1 – Alarm Stage 

As stated above there are 3 stages to stress, the first stage is referred to as ‘Alarm Stage’ according to the theorist, Selye. I’ll give an example, you enter the room for a seminar and your seminar tutor tells the seminar group, that you will all take a test. All students are unprepared, students enter into an Alarm Stage and some students might feign illness and leave the room (otherwise known as the fight or flight response).  

Stress Response 

Students might experience a stress response, such as raised blood pressure,  headache, palpitation, quietly swearing. Stress response will impact on our energy level. 

Step 2 – Resistance Stage and Stress Theory 

At this second stage the body begins restoring balance and a period of recovery for repair and renewal takes place, but much is dependant on the individual. At the Resistance stage some students will recover from the initial shock news, and quickly adjust to taking the test. Unfortunately, some of us are likely to have reduced defences and our energy level will remain low. 

Step 3 – Exhaustion Stage 

The third stage is when there is little or no recovery from the second stage. This third stage is most hazardous to our health and is known as Exhaustion. It follows that our energy supply will be low, what is often referred to as burnout. If we are constantly worried about assignments, meeting essay submission dates, failing assignments, it will negatively impact on our health

Stress is all around us, we can’t get rid of it but we can learn to manage it, hopefully this little bit of information will help to give an understanding of how stress can manifest itself and give some thoughts of how individuals can manage potential stressors both within academic and social worlds.    

How do I write a good Essay

Undergraduate students should aim to understand what is a good essay and how to write a good essay. An essay title should contain an actual or implied question, do bear this in mind if you have to create your own essay title. In order to do well, students must ensure that the whole of the essay is focused on the essay title and students must ensure that all aspects of the essay question asked is addressed. It will therefore be worthwhile to consult with the Student Guide book to help reinforce why it is important to pay close attention to the essay guidelines.

Essay Resource and Writing Example Criminology 

If studying Criminology or a related subject and writing about governing crime, you might find the following ideas useful as background reading and for planning an essay.

War on Crime and Politics – Criminology 

In war on crime, the police (law enforcement) are seen as soldiers, commissioned to fighting crime on our streets, in urban neighbourhoods (for example, fighting crime on the streets of New York or London). The War on Crime is particularly evident in western countries where government lead the campaign to stamp out crime through introducing new criminal laws to deal with social problems. Criminal activities are said to stem from problems within society, for example, problems such as unemployment, poor housing, racial discrimination.

Crime is very political; if you pay close attention to the words politicians use, you will soon be able to identify which party they belong to. Researchers’ say that politicians associated with conservatism are likely to advocate for a zero tolerance approach to fighting crime; on the other hand politicians advocating liberalism are likely to argue that we should be considering the social issues, that lead people to commit crime. 

Fear of Crime 

How do the general public perceive crime? Perception of crime does differ, depending on individual differences. For example, some people support the decriminalisation of smoking cannabis, whilst others believe that it should remain a criminal offence. In regard to fear of crime, it is the consequences of drug addiction that people fear; smoking cannabis could lead to people trying other drugs; leading to addiction and engaging in further criminal activities to obtain money to buy hard drugs. 

There is an argument that there is a link between crime and class.The view is that a middle class person’s fear of crime will ultimately direct their decision of where they choose to live, where they work and where they send their children to school. These decisions are taken with reference to how the middle class perceive their risk of becoming a victim of crime. 

The fear of crime therefore influences the way we live, and how we choose to direct the lives of our families and our communities. The fear of crime clearly also affects the lives of working class people. Parents living in poor neighbourhoods are likely to implement strict curfew rules for their children, in order to minimise the risks of their children being caught up in criminal activities. 

Minority Communities 

Due to fear of crime, people now spend more income on purchasing security cameras, burglar alarms and paying for supervised child care. It is also argued that due to fear of crime, growing numbers of certain groups of citizens are wrongfully imprisoned. 

Criminology – Governing Crime 

There is no doubt that the influence of crime over American and European policies and across various institutions is great. There has been much talk and state planning on how to effectively launch an attack on crime. Researchers’ such as Simon, argue that the American elite are governing through crime. The introduction of new criminal laws implemented by an American government or English Parliament is an act of governing through crime.

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How to Write a Discursive Essay

Start by making notes as you read and start to mentally raise questions in view of the essay title. For example, you could ask yourself why the university have chosen to set the particular essay question, there might be a public or academic controversy inferred in the question, waiting for you to explore. If the essay question ask that you should consider the topic from a local, national and global perspective, then you should do so. Each level is likely to unearth its own dynamics and at the same time be linked. Your job is to gather relevant and sufficient evidence for each perspective and to raise a discussion, this will require you to use critical thinking skills to produce discursive arguments. If you find yourself basically reiterating what the research says then you are being descriptive and this could lead to issues of plagiarism, irrespective of you referencing the source. To write a good essay, students need to rely less on researchers words and instead critically analyse research findings, weighing-up research data and considering the merits of arguments, relevance of methodology used, assumptions made, debatable points, and expressing why the points are debatable will all help to lead to a discursive essay.  

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How to Write Essays and Reports (Student Guide) author: Morel Benard 

The book ‘How to Write Essays and Reports (Student Guide)’ is now available at Amazon and on Kindle. It’s written to help students with their education, to help University and College students alleviate the stress of writing assignments (Essays and Reports). The author is yours truly Morel Benard (Study Coach UK). Access students making the leap from level 3 to level 4 will find the book to be of great help. Students coming from a non-traditional academic background should keep the book close at hand when planning to tackle assignments; the analysis of a reflective essay is included in order to give students guidance, to help students gain confidence and to help students raise assignment grades. Students should find the book easy to read and the suggestions and guidance should prove to be valuable, use the book as a source of reference; your assignment writing companion.  

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