Ebook: Reading english and writing essays: a student's guide

University of Bristol, 2012. — 60 p.Reading English at university. When studying an Arts-based subject at university, your time is largely your own. This can be both liberating and highly challenging; for many, it is the single hardest adjustment from school-level work.
Full-time English students at Bristol are firmly expected to invest forty hours a week in their studies. For single-honours students, approximately six of these hours are covered
by formal teaching (lectures, tutorials, seminars), while joint-honours students will typically have
between two and four teaching hours in English and further hours in their other subject. That
leaves about thirty-four hours for single honours students and between sixteen and eighteen (on
the English side) for joint-honours students to spend each week on independent study.Contents:
-reading English at University
-Independent Study: A checklist of Weekly Activities
-Key Materials for Regular Reference
-Taking Notes in Seminars and Tutorials
-Taking Notes in Lectures
-Taking Notes from Books
-Giving a Tutorial or Seminar Presentation
-Planning and Writing Essays
-Plagiarism, and How to Avoid It
-The style guide
-introduction
-A: essay Format and Structure
-B: punctuation
-C: word Order and Word Relations
-D: errors, Dangers and Grey Areas
-E: quotations
-F: references and Footnotes
-G: bibliography