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Writing academic essays for excellent university grades
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Writing academic essays for excellent university grades

Learn how to write excellent essays for good grades.
Created byGlensinos Interdisciplinary Center
Last updated 10/2019
English

What you'll learn

  • The ability to break down essay questions.
  • You learn how to conceptualize research and plan them.
  • You learn how to gather data and seek sources for your project.
  • How to reference, write, and edit academic research projects.

Course content

2 sections • 14 lectures • 1h 12m total length

  • Introduction2:53

    Welcome to the world of academic writing. The traditional university has evolved significantly over the past two decades. Many professors have no direct responsibility to teach academic writing. As such, many students struggle and often have to pay third parties to write their essays for them. This issue is spelt out in detail in this lecture. It then proceeds to set the parameters for the rest of the course's content.

  • Stage 1: Organising your essay: Contextualization, Breakdown and Outline8:45

    The first stage of academic essay writing involves breaking down the question. This course covers the best practices of doing it, in order to systematize the other stages that lead to the final deliverable.

  • Stage 2: Preliminary research, wider reading and note-taking4:58

    After you model the research question, you need to do some reading and note-taking. This stage often helps to broaden your mind on the issue - yes, you can use Wikipedia to broaden your horizons on almost every topic (never reference Wikipedia!).

  • Stage 3: Introduction and headings leading up to conceptualization4:58

    When you have a brief idea, it is best to write an introduction and the topics for the rest of your paper.

  • Stage 4: Dealing with Referencing Issues: Introduction to RAW4:09

    This course introduces you to the Referencing as you Write system. It provides you with templates in APA, Footnotes, Harvard and MLA referencing style that you can download and use for most university and college essays.

  • Stage 5: Detailed Research and Referencing Secondary Sources3:03

    This course provides insight to the common methods of conducting detailed research and referencing it. It also has the popular referencing formats, available for download.

  • Stage 6: Final Compilation7:09

    This course walks you through how to undertake the final compilation of your academic essays. The optional video below  (Lecture 10) provides a live rendition of how the sample paper was actually written.

  • Stage 7: Editing0:53

    This lecture deals with editing and adding final touches to your paper.

  • Stage 8: Recap1:25

    This lecture brings together all the content of the course.

  • OPTIONAL: Live compilation of the sample paper.0:04

    This covers a recording of the essay that answers the sample question. It is about 1 hour long.

    You can find it on this link:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT26bojRj8Q&

Requirements

  • A word processor - preferably MS Word

Description

This is a course that provides you with a systematic approach to break down essay questions and write them for your college assignments. Writing term papers, research papers, and other academic works require a few technical steps. Once you get those pointers fulfilled, you can easily write the project with relative ease. This course seeks to raise the main pointers of achieving that end through the presentation of simple and easy steps. Most of these are pointers that have been used by experienced writers in diverse academic fields. You do not have to pay anyone to do your assignments and course work. It can be done by following our easy and quick steps. The course is compiled by a team of experts who have enormous experience in academic writing and research. We share our experiences with young and upcoming writers who struggle with their projects. This is aimed at helping you to gain an insight in rephrasing your project requirements into an introduction, develop a strong outline, and write the paper. Another important thing covered, relates to referencing. This is aimed at helping you make the best of your word processor to reference things quickly and efficiently without issues. Let’s get on with this!

Who this course is for:

  • University students, college students and high school students.

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