Writing Right: An Easy Guide to Essay Writing (3rd Edition)

Communication is difficult. Communication through writing is especially difficult. But why? Why is it harder to write than it is to speak? In this short guide to writing, we offer some insights into why writing can be difficult. Unless you understand why it is difficult to write, it's hard to figure out how to improve your writing.

Writing Right focuses on essay writing as the door to high-level writing that is needed in senior studies and in the workplace. Learning to write essays offers you the opportunity to:

• learn to undertake research
• understand, analyse and synthesise information
• express complex ideas effectively in written form
• plan your work to ensure your argument or discussion is communicated clearly, logically, and thoroughly.

We address all these skills in Writing Right. We will take you through a series of steps, one by one, offering clear and sound advice and a proven strategy that will help you go through the various stages of addressing an issue or topic in essay form. In addition, we provide an overview of grammar and share some of the most common grammatical errors to avoid. Finally, we include three annotated model essays so you can see how a well-written essay looks.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
  • Communication
  • What Is an Essay?
  • Different Types of Essays
  • How Do I Write an Essay?
  • Writing is harder than talking
  • Most of your essays will be on topics that require some research
• Chapter 1: Getting Yourself Started
  • 1. The first step to being effective
  • 1.1 Being Motivated to write
  • 1.2 Managing how you feel about writing
  • 1.3 Organise Yourself
  • 1.4 Focus! Managing your workspace and your devices
  • 1.5 Music and concentration
  • 1.6 Effective study breaks
  • 1.7 Set Yourself Some SMART Goals
  • 1.8 Are you in control of your life?
  • 1.9 Exercise – its wonderful benefits
  • 1.10 Using artificial intelligence in your essay writing
• Chapter 2: General Essay-Writing Techniques
  • 2. Understand your topic
  • 2.1 Activity
  • 2.2 Ask the important questions before you submit your work
  • 2.3 The differences between Explain, Discuss, Argue, Compare and Contrast
  • 2.4 The first step: choose an essay topic
  • 2.5 Do your research
  • 2.6 Mind Mapping
  • 2.7 Editing your work
  • 2.8 Planning an essay
• Chapter 3: Effective Communication
  • 3 Common Grammatical Errors
• Appendix
  • 4 Model Essays
  • 4.1 Blue Train Analysis
  • 4.2 Extinction Essay
  • 4.3 How wasps forage