Essays and reports

This topic tells you about the stages of essay and report writing, from the first stage of analysing the title to the last stage of proofreading your work. If you are fairly new to essay and report writing at University level, you may find it best to work through the information sheets one by one. Make sure that you do this in the order in which the information sheets are listed below, because they follow on from each other. Alternatively, if you have more experience of essay and report writing at University and just need information about one or two of the stages, then you can access the information sheets individually.

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Stages of essay writing

Essay title analysing

'Do' words in essay titles

Sources of information

Evaluating sources of information

Essay structure

Report writing

Editing the draft of your essay

Proofreading the final draft of your essay

Further reading about essays and reports

Essay title analysing and planning practice task

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Find out about the stages of essay and report writing

Analyse my essay or report title

Make sure I answer my essay or report question, and don't go off the point

Know what the do words (verbs) mean in essay and report titles

Draw on a variety of sources of information in my essay or report

Assess the usefullness of the different types of information sources for my essay or report

Structure my essay and know what goes into each section

Structure my report and know what goes into each section

Edit the drafts of my essay or report

Proof read the final draft of my essay or report

Read more about essay and report writing

Practice essay title analysing and planning

 
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