How To Write Essays: A Practical Guide for Students

How to Write Essays, now in its third edition, has preserved the original serious, yet practical, approach to academic writing, with particular attention paid to the central tasks of analysing a topic, reading and research, planning and drafting, and editing the final version of an essay or report. *A new chapter on the use of the Internet and the WWW for essay and assignment research. *Chapters on book reviews, lab reports and fieldwork reports to make the book as relevant to Science students as it is to Social Science and Humanities students. *Numerous examples and exercises to provide practice in note-taking, essay planning, reading and editing strategies.