Essay help
Are you looking for some help with your essay?
Whether you’re struggling to reference your essay or you just don’t have a clue what to write about, we can help you.
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Struggling to get started?
These guides will help you if you’ve not started writing your essay yet:
- Interpreting your Essay Question – This guide will help you break down your essay question – it’ll give you a great starting point.
- Collecting Material – Sometimes it’s so hard to find material to help you argue your point. This guide gives some great tips on collecting materials for your essay.
- Reading and Making Notes – Time to put all of those books you’ve found to good use! This guide will show you how to make great notes for your essay.
- Developing Your Ideas – So you understand the question, you’ve got loads of relevant materials for your essay but you need help developing unique ideas to write about. This guide will help you advance your thinking.
- Planning Your Essay – The ideas are flowing around your head, but it’s now time to write a plan. Use this guide to help you structure your thoughts and understand what makes an essay plan successful.
- How to Write an Essay Plan – This thorough guide will take you through essay planning step by step. It’s more specific than the guide above, and it’ll walk you through the planning process.
- Effective Note Taking – This guide attacks note taking differently to the plan above. It’ll help you extract quality notes from your own research, while helping you write notes to strengthen your conclusion.
- Marking Scheme – Before you start writing, use this helpful guide to learn what makes a first class or 2:1 standard piece of work!
Improve your essay writing with our help guides:
Tips and essay writing walkthroughs to give you a better idea of what’s expected of you academically:
- How to Write an Essay – A generic help guide that takes you through all of the essay writing steps. From planning to concluding.
- What is an Essay? – This guide talks about what an essay actually is. Use this guide to educate yourself about the history of ‘the essay’. If you know what an essay is, you’ll write them better.
- Essay Tips – These tips have been written by a PhD student, who has written hundreds of essays for us over the last couple of years. Use these tips to help you improve your own essay writing.
- Top 10 Essay Tips – Is the above guide too in depth? The top ten tips in this guide will help any student looking for a quick fix!
- Top Essay Mistakes – Sick of low grades? Check out this list of popular mistakes made by students. The guide is written by a lecturer, so avoid making the same mistakes and you’ll soon be on track to getting better grades.
- Write an upper first-class essay – Before you start writing your essay, read this help guide. It’ll teach you how to write a piece of work that stands out.
- Grammar help – Improve your grammar with this useful guide.
- Punctuation help – Improve your punctuation with this helpful guide.
- A guide to avoiding plagiarism in your essay – Make your essay better by avoiding plagiarism. This guide will show you how!
Help with specific types of essays:
- Problem Questions – If you’re studying law, this guide will help you solve problem questions. It’s an easy-to-use formula that you can apply to any problem question!
- Critical Evaluation – If you’ve been asked to ‘critically evaluate’ some research for your essay but haven’t a clue where to start, this guide will help you.
- Report Writing Help – Have you been tasked with writing a report? This guide presents a good structure to help you get the most out of report writing.
- Essay Types – From the five-paragraph essay to the scholarship essay, this guide will help you learn what’s required from different types of essays.
Help with different sections of your essay:
- Bibliography – Bibliographies are confusing. This guide will help you work out what a bibliography is and what should be included in yours.
- References – Ever wondered why you need a bibliography and a reference list? This helpful guide will explain all.
- Types of referencing – These guides explain all the different types of referencing styles and how to do them properly.
- Appendix – This guide explains what an appendix is and why they’re necessary, helping you form your own correctly.
- Essay Titles – Struggling to write an essay title? It’s pretty difficult to form your own when you’re used to being assigned titles! This guide will show you how to write the perfect essay title.
- Essay Topics and Subjects – This is an alphabetical list of topics and subjects. If you’re really struggling to find something to write about, scroll down this list until something jumps out and inspires you!
- Final Evaluation – Already written your essay? This guide will help you take that last glance over it and identify any mistakes you’ve missed.
