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Welcome to How to Write Essays and Assignments. We’re pleased
that you’ve chosen this book and we hope it will help you with all
your academic writing tasks. Our aim has been to provide practical
tips to guide you from planning to submission, with help along the
way on topics like punctuation, spelling and grammar, so that your
work is well developed and meets assessment criteria. We hope the
tips we have collated will help you tackle essays and assignments
with confidence and produce better results. We’ve tried to remain
faithful to the philosophy of our earlier book, The Smarter Student,
by creating a quickly accessible resource that you can dip into in time
of need. We hope that it will meet your personal needs – regardless of
your experience and background.
We would like to offer sincere thanks to many people who have
influenced us and contributed to the development and production of
this book. Countless students over the years have helped us to test
our ideas, especially those whose written work we have commented
upon, supervised and assessed. We are grateful to the following
colleagues and collaborators who have helped us directly or indirectly:
Margaret Adamson, Michael Allardice, John Berridge, Richard
Campbell, Margaret Forrest, the late Neil Glen, Anne-Marie Greenhill,
Jane Illés, Fiona O’Donnell, Richard Parsons, Mhairi Robb, Anne
Scott, Dorothy Smith, Amanda Whitehead and David Wishart. Also,
we acknowledge those at other universities who have helped frame
our thoughts, particularly our good friends Rob Reed, Nicki Hedge
and Esther Daborn. We owe a special debt to the senior colleagues
who encouraged various projects that contributed to this book, and
who allowed us the freedom to pursue this avenue of scholarship,
especially Robin Adamson, Chris Carter, Ian Francis, Rod Herbert and
David Swinfen. At Pearson Education, we have had excellent advice
and support from Steve Temblett, Georgina Clark-Mazo and Joan Dale
Lace. Finally, we would like to say thanks to our long-suffering but
nevertheless enthusiastic families: Derek, Keith and Fiona; and Mary,
Paul and James, all of whom helped in various capacities. |
