Checklist for Writing Essays
See below for a quick checlist - you should make sure that your essay matches all of these key features, this will help you get a much better grade!
Good luck...
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- Have you used the official title (as set)?
- Does your essay answer the actual question set? See KEY WORDS below
- Does the essay have a clear structure?
- Does the introduction preview what is to come?
- Are your main points/arguments supported by evidence?
- Have you distinguished between your own ideas and those taken from other authors?
- Have you acknowledged the sources for other authors? The usual way is the Harvard system. For example, in the text give author and date the book was published directly after the quote.(Thompson 1994) . In the bibliography give a full reference:
Thompson P (1994) Reading - A Voyage of Discovery, New York Free Press.
- Have you included a bibliography?
- Is the length correct? (You may lose marks if the essay is too short or too long.)
- Have you checked through your work for errors of spelling and punctuation?
- It is hard to proofread within a day of finishing the work. Read aloud to check for omitted words and clarity in general.
- Does your work follow the structure set out in departmental guidelines?
Key Words
It is no good just giving the relevant information. It must be written in the right style:
- Discuss… Give advantages and disadvantages, present different views
- Identify… Spot the relevant information
- Consider… Take various factors, issues into account, weigh up the merits of different ideas
- Analyse… Make value judgements, go into detail, be critical and make value judgements, disentangle various elements / component parts
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