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Editing Exercises

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1. Rewrite for brevity without changing main idea. (Ans:210 Src: S019C)

Needless to say, people who are drunk behave oddly.

2. Edit: Limit personal commentary (Ans:101 Src: S007N)

A temporary dip in the stock market, it seems to me, does not mean we are heading into a recession.

3. Edit: Replace redundant word pairs with single words (Ans:68 Src: S007N)

Each and every one of the jury members voted “not guilty.”

Other resources

Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Report on Pedagogical Work for New Academic Year - Mark Beachill - 20140707

Editing Court Reporting

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These are live video edits of a short court report.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc3dO34VpEs 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwHAXta4saw 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzFtIrASV1A 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WRBQtIq-Ys 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFo7u-XDvwE 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7cLas6Yths 6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5djluZUkLw 8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq3OnUYKjRc 9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xxz5AnXySY 10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xu9W8Oh-nc 11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRPPVTTR2j0 12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bldiM8FaFyA 13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhFIkBPARM0 14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj8xQkH9cso 15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WId1zC02JG4 17

Harvard Referencing Videos

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These two videos cover Harvard referencing from scratch for a book and then a web page.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7rWyBDEwUY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJeHZvcmok

Home

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Essay Writing Guide

Currently with 20 sections, the guide looks at themes such as why write an essay, how to get get started, common problems, structuring, comparisons etc. and includes a sample essay.

Academic Editing Videos

These are 12 videos showing in detail the editing process for a paragraph in an essay.

Journalism Editing Videos

These are 15 videos showing in detail the editing process for a court report.

UEL Academic Super Search

Fri, 06 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

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Report on teaching Work

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Pedagogical notes

Report on Pedagogical Work for New Academic Year - Mark Beachill - 20140707

1.1 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) The BBC holds a license... - YouTube

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1.1 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) The BBC holds a license… - YouTube

Live academic feedback for creating a paragraph with quote. The topic for this video:

www.youtube.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfHkMsJDh4c

www.youtube.com () “1.1 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) The BBC holds a license… - YouTube”, www.youtube.com, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfHkMsJDh4c

1.10 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Objectivity... - YouTube

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1.10 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Objectivity… - YouTube

Live academic feedback for creating a paragraph with quote. The topic for this video: objectivity

www.youtube.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpRCBfhYKaQ

www.youtube.com () “1.10 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Objectivity… - YouTube”, www.youtube.com, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpRCBfhYKaQ

1.11 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) The pyramid structure.... - YouTube

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1.11 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) The pyramid structure…. - YouTube

Live academic feedback for creating a paragraph with quote. The topic for this video: the pyramid structure in news reporting

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCrZs1Oa3_k

www.youtube.com () “1.11 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) The pyramid structure…. - YouTube”, www.youtube.com, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCrZs1Oa3_k

1.12 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) feature stories and the inverted pyramid - YouTube

Sat, 26 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

1.12 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) feature stories and the inverted pyramid - YouTube

Live academic feedback for creating a paragraph with quote. The topic for this video: the pyramid structure in news reporting

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJmWsDaxyP0

www.youtube.com () “1.12 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) feature stories and the inverted pyramid - YouTube”, www.youtube.com, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJmWsDaxyP0

1.2 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) The media and public life... - YouTube

Sat, 26 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) 1.2 The media and public life… - YouTube

Live academic feedback for creating a paragraph with quote. The topic for this video: the media and public life…

www.youtube.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t51UB_aIJ2c

www.youtube.com () “Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) 1.2 The media and public life… - YouTube”, www.youtube.com, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t51UB_aIJ2c

1.3 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Hugh Grant... - YouTube

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Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) 1.3 Hugh Grant… - YouTube

Live academic feedback for creating a paragraph with quote. The topic for this video: Hugh Grant and the Leveson Inquiry…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1slcXvVQx4

www.youtube.com () “Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) 1.3 Hugh Grant… - YouTube”, www.youtube.com, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1slcXvVQx4

1.4 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Reading the news... - YouTube

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1.4 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Reading the news… - YouTube

Live academic feedback for creating a paragraph with quote. The topic for this video: whether we read the news or the news reads us…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWBxOLa8Iko

www.youtube.com () “1.4 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Reading the news… - YouTube”, www.youtube.com, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWBxOLa8Iko

1.5 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Galtung and Ruge on inverted pyramid - YouTube

Sat, 26 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

1.5 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Galtung and Ruge on inverted pyramid - YouTube

Live academic feedback for creating a paragraph with quote. The topic for this video: Galtung and Ruge on inverted pyramid

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JubJJ8NMBuw

www.youtube.com () “1.5 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Galtung and Ruge on inverted pyramid - YouTube”, www.youtube.com, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JubJJ8NMBuw

1.6 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Objectivity and the BBC - YouTube

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1.6 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Objectivity and the BBC - YouTube

Live academic feedback for creating a paragraph with quote. The topic for this video: objectivity and the BBC

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGay7pqY1zw

www.youtube.com () “1.6 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Objectivity and the BBC - YouTube”, www.youtube.com, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGay7pqY1zw

1.7 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Dialectics... - YouTube

Sat, 26 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

1.7 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Dialectics… - YouTube

Live academic feedback for creating a paragraph with quote. The topic for this video: dialectics…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9t5XwkO_5E

www.youtube.com () “1.7 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Dialectics… - YouTube”, www.youtube.com, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9t5XwkO_5E

1.8 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Objectivity... - YouTube

Sat, 26 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

1.8 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Objectivity… - YouTube

Live academic feedback for creating a paragraph with quote. The topic for this video: objectivity.

www.youtube.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpyQadHz14E

www.youtube.com () “1.8 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Objectivity… - YouTube”, www.youtube.com, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpyQadHz14E

1.9 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Churnalism... - YouTube

Sat, 26 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

1.9 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Churnalism… - YouTube

Live academic feedback for creating a paragraph with quote. The topic for this video: churnalism, Nick Davies and citizen journalism…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTSpuIJl5U0

www.youtube.com () “1.9 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Churnalism… - YouTube”, www.youtube.com, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTSpuIJl5U0

Essay Writing Guide

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Download Essay_Writing_Guide_1.06 (PDF version)

Download Essay_Writing_Guide_1.06 (Word version)

1. How to be a Successful Student

2. An Approach to Essays

3. Just Answer the Question

4. Academic Writing

5. Getting Started: the question

6. Getting Started: writing exercises

7. Getting Started: research

13. Grammar: The Sentence

14. Grammar: The Comma

15. Using Referenced Material (under construction)

17. Academic Comparisons

Essay Writing Guide 1.06 Document

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Please see attached Essay Writing Guide 1.06

Essay_Writing_Guide_1.06 Word Document

Essay_Writing_Guide_1.06 PDF Document

EWG 1. How to be a successful student

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Consider these points step by step

The more time you spend studying the more successful you will be.
You need motivation for that study time to be productive.
If you are not that interested in studying but see it as a necessary way to get to your ideal career or even if you just want to get a degree then this is called an “instrumental approach”.
If you are being “instrumental” and you are not that interested in studying you will be poorly motivated and you will find it difficult to have quality time spent studying.
If you are not motivated then academic study will seem like a burden, be more difficult and it is likely that you will become cynical and either fail or get a low degree.
For success (and an easier life) you must have a motivation towards academic enquiry that is separate or independent from your career aspirations. You must learn to love (or at least like) what you are studying. You must get into the study itself.
One key motivation is when study helps you understand something. However, getting started is often difficult. This means an open attitude to new ideas and different ways of seeing the world is important.
The idea of academic study (for everyone from undergraduates to professors) is that we do not know enough but that through research, writing and reflection we can understand more and more.
Academic study at its best is transformative: students will have a different relationship with the rest of the world. And, rather than reflecting fixed intelligence, the results of study point towards continually developing knowledge and understanding.
However, there are absolutely no shortcuts to this process: it requires lots of hard work.

Exercise: Write a paragraph explaining what you find interesting about your course.

EWG 10. Note taking

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Why take notes in lectures?

The lecture provides a good introduction to a subject in a short space of time and taking notes will help you take full advantage of this. For example, notes can be a useful as quick reminder of a logical approach to a subject when doing essays. Notes will also help your concentration in class because you are taking a more active approach to learning.

Notes will help your memory. By writing you will reinforce points and be forced to mentally process what is being said. According to one source if you do not write anything down you will forget 42% of the information in 20 minutes, 56% after 1 hour, 66% after 1 day, 75% after 1 week and 80% after 1 month (see: http://www.edison.k12.nj.us/cms/lib2/NJ01001623/…/1453/NoteTaking.ppt )

EWG 11. Common mistakes

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These points are based on common feedback that students get on their essays. Some are more important than others. Some are quite technical. All of them contribute in one way or another to your mark. So it is worth going through all these points to avoid the same mistakes. When a marker gets a text that is easy to read without having to put in a lot of little comments, they will spend more time giving you substantial feedback and they will be predisposed towards giving you a higher mark. As a rule of thumb the less time something takes to be marked the higher the mark it gets!

EWG 12. Plagiarism

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Portions of this are taken from an LSBU document and so it will be rewritten.

The business of academics is words. If you copy other people’s work then a marker can spot in a second that the writing style has changed and can quickly look up the source.

The main thing is to avoid putting yourself in the situation where you are even tempted to present someone else’s work as your own. This means giving yourself as much time as possible to start on your essay rather than leaving it to the last minute.

EWG 13. Grammar: the sentence

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This lesson is about sentences and the two most common mistakes students make with constructing sentences. This is not a grammar lesson exactly, but instead a way of thinking about sentences that can help you spot and correct these mistakes. The reason to avoid these mistakes is so that your writing is clearer. This is important not just for the reader, but also for you to use your writing to clarify ideas for yourself.

EWG 14. Grammar: the comma

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The Comma Demystified

Essential to writing is the humble comma. Thought by many the creation of a sadist, the dot-curl combo can be the key to clarity. My comprehensive school education certainly skirted the issue. So, as a mature student, I looked into it myself. I found a few simple rules in a simple book and, in a few hundred words, here is most of what you need to know about the comma, but were afraid to ask.

EWG 15. Using Referenced Material (under construction)

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Why are you being asked to reference other people’s work in your writing?

Perhaps the main reason that you are asked to use references is that academic work (and a great deal of modern knowledge) relies on the idea that you can build on the insights and research of others. In an essay, report or dissertation you are using the theories and writing of others as building blocks or scaffolding for your argument – as all academic writers do. These sources or references can allow you to assume or state ideas that experts have worked on for years and so potentially let you build powerful and insightful arguments of your own with their backing. Alternately some of your writing will engage with important ideas to critique them and some of your work will use logic and evidence to undermine ideas you oppose. This is something that academics do in ongoing debates on many subjects – you are being asked to take part. Either way (through support and/or critique) the idea is that by engaging with ideas from the best thinkers you will be able to develop your understanding of a subject and be able to apply that to develop insights of your own.

EWG 17. Academic Comparisons

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There is a saying “It’s like comparing apples and oranges”. This means that it is seems impossible to compare two very different things. Sure, they are both fruit. But ask yourself, which is best? The only answer seems to be “I like oranges best” (or of course you might like apples). However, this is just your view and not really a comparison.

In academic writing you have to solve a similar problem. You must evaluate two (or more) different arguments or theories.

EWG 18 Sample Essay

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Below is an example of a third year essay that got a first. Nonetheless it is not the best essay in the world. Do not think of it as a template but as an example of the approach you should be thinking about and some indication of what you are looking to achieve. Consider how something such as TV celebrity that might be discussed in a conversation is approached in the academic form of an essay.

EWG 19. Resources

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Further reading

Cottrell, S. (1999) The Study Skills Handbook. London: Macmillan

Evans, H. (2000) Essential English: For Journalists, Editors and Writers. London: Pimlico

Mounsey, C. (2002), “Research” and “Structuring the essay” in Essays and Dissertations. London: Oxford University Press, pp.18-41

Orwell, G (1946) Politics and the English Language Available at http://iis.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/Politics_%26_English_language.pdf [accessed 14 July 2013]

Trask, R.L. (1997) Penguin Guide to Punctuation. London: Penguin

EWG 2. An Approach to Essays

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[reading time 5 minutes]

Or watch the animated version!

https://youtu.be/nZ-admndPJE

We couldn’t do it; it was such a slog. The lecturer was sighing and we were moaning. The class I took recently (at another University) was less than half-way through the essay and we simply gave up. And that was just reading and critiquing, done so that we might learn about writing.

People in the class expressed disbelief that the lecturer might have to sit through 10 of these. Sure the essay was about taxation, but specifically the Poll Tax and whether the opposition outside of Parliament, culminating in mass riots, was effective. The lecturer said, “I don’t expect any to be an interesting read. I’m just pleased if the English is okay and they have a structure.”

EWG 20. Who Are You Writing For? (under construction)

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If you were writing a report, or a newspaper or magazine article, or a book an important consideration would be who is the audience for this. Even before you started writing you would want to have in mind who would read it. If you were creating a sales pitch to get an editor to commission your piece, you would even have in mind what the editor saw their audience to be. While you wrote you would try to keep in mind what the level of knowledge and what are the interests of the people you are writing for. What do they know already? What do they need to know? Who are they?

EWG 3. Just answer the question

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[reading time: 20 minutes]

It seems obvious that undergraduates should use essays to answer the question that has been set. However, the main comment made on essay papers is “Answer the Question”. Academic guides often use detailed explanations of the terms used in questions to help students. However, as this complaint crops up time and again, there seems to be a more fundamental problem of communication between those creating questions and those required to answer. This piece is an attempt to address this by discussing why the essay is counterintuitive, then looking at what the ideas are behind an essay, and finally look at an alternative way of approaching the essay.

EWG 4. Academic Writing

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Academic writing is not the same as a conversation or of you simply putting your point of view. The idea is to leverage the years of work that some of the brightest people on the planet have put into thinking about problems to help you in the pursuit of answering a question. This answer should be impersonal, formal and analytical rather than personal, informal and descriptive.

To do this type of writing you need to spend a large amount of time and effort time digesting and thinking about the question you are answering and finding and understanding the academic literature on your subject. You will need to put into context and test the ideas and theories you find in academic literature in the pursuit of the answer to the question you have been set.

EWG 5. Getting started: the question

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A) Choosing your question

In most cases before starting an essay you must choose which question you want to answer.

There is a balancing act to be done when making this choice. On the one hand you must be as thorough as possible when making your choice because choosing the wrong question can make a big difference in how difficult your task is, how enjoyable the essay is and the mark you will get. On the other hand you have to choose as quickly as possible because you need as much time as possible to think about the question, to do research and finally to answer the question. It is possible to switch questions after you have chosen one, but it requires a lot of extra work to get back on track.

EWG 6. Getting started: writing exercises

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There are 5 writing exercises presented here.

Try some or all of these (to taste).

Do some research and thinking about the essay.

Work on them again

Writing exercise 1: re-write the question in your own words

The idea is to draw out what you think the question is getting at based on the ideas you have. Take each part and unpack it to explain what it means to you.

EWG 7. Getting started: research

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So far you have written down what you can think of. This may be a good start but it is almost certain that you need a lot more material and a lot more ideas.

The research lets you use the work of people who are experts in the subject you are studying – without their insights your essay will be very poor at best.

The research needs certain elements: arguments, facts, experts, arguments. Research will provide some of these directly and give you inspiration for the rest.

EWG 8. Structure

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There is not a formula for structuring an essay. It depends on your style, the material you are using and even how you try to fit your argument into the word count.

However below is a rough guide to one approach – take it as approximate rather than definitive.

You might want to also look at the section on “Getting started: writing exercises” for alternative approaches to those presented here.

EWG 9. Editing

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As a rule you will not write your essay and then present it. Instead you will produce several drafts that you read through, correct, alter and edit. Personally I go through about ten drafts over the course of several days or even weeks before the final version. This means I will have read the piece ten times at the very least and spotted a lot of flaws and problems along the way.

EWG Introduction

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An undergraduate education and a good degree can be the key to your future. And, in the humanities, the essay is the key to undergraduate education. Your performance is based on how you deal with answering a set of questions in writing i.e. the essay.

This is an indication of how testing the essay can be. Make no mistake: this is a major step up from secondary education. However, should you persevere, you will find that all the talents that you put towards answering essay questions will have a transformative impact on how you understand the world and your chosen subject.

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Welcome to Chequered History Learning on Chequered History Learning

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Editing Exercises

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Harvard Referencing Videos

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Contents

UEL Academic Super Search

Report on teaching Work

1.1 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) The BBC holds a license... - YouTube

1.10 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Objectivity... - YouTube

1.11 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) The pyramid structure.... - YouTube

1.12 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) feature stories and the inverted pyramid - YouTube

1.2 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) The media and public life... - YouTube

1.3 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Hugh Grant... - YouTube

1.4 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Reading the news... - YouTube

1.5 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Galtung and Ruge on inverted pyramid - YouTube

1.6 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Objectivity and the BBC - YouTube

1.7 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Dialectics... - YouTube

1.8 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Objectivity... - YouTube

1.9 Academic Editing Skills (live student feedback) Churnalism... - YouTube

Essay Writing Guide

Essay Writing Guide 1.06 Document

EWG 1. How to be a successful student

EWG 10. Note taking

EWG 11. Common mistakes

EWG 12. Plagiarism

Portions of this are taken from an LSBU document and so it will be rewritten.

EWG 13. Grammar: the sentence

EWG 14. Grammar: the comma

EWG 15. Using Referenced Material (under construction)

EWG 17. Academic Comparisons

EWG 18 Sample Essay

EWG 19. Resources

EWG 2. An Approach to Essays

EWG 20. Who Are You Writing For? (under construction)

EWG 3. Just answer the question

EWG 4. Academic Writing

EWG 5. Getting started: the question

EWG 6. Getting started: writing exercises

EWG 7. Getting started: research

EWG 8. Structure

EWG 9. Editing

EWG Introduction

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