Essay writing

Essay writing resources

• Preparing to write

  Start all writing assignments here. Unpack the requirements of your task, generate ideas, and make a plan to guide your research.

• Structuring your argument and paper

  Pull together your thoughts and organise them into a coherent, cohesive structure that directly meets your task requirements.

• Essay writing

  We break down the structure of an essay and show you how to do it well.

• Building good paragraphs

  Understand paragraph structure, cohesion and coherence, and other elements that assist you to produce well-developed academic paragraphs.

• Six top tips for writing a great essay

  An essay is used to assess the strength of your critical thinking and your ability to put that thinking into an academic written form. This resource covers some key considerations when writing an essay at university.

• Structure and key elements of academic paragraphs

  This video will show you how to structure paragraphs in your academic writing.

• Writing an abstract

  This page explains what an abstract is, its purpose, structure and what to include.

• Improving cohesion

  This guide will help you make your academic writing more cohesive and communicate your message more effectively. It includes advice on how to analyse and improve your own writing for elements of cohesion.

• Using a writing process

  A six-step process to get writing done.

• Following a writing process

  Taking a process approach to writing helps you to break your assignment down into manageable chunks and meet the expectations of your markers.

• Writing a rationale

  This resource provides a model for a way to present a rationale in writing and the language that can be used to indicate you are rationalising or justifying.

• Incorporating music examples

  Music writing tasks often require you to support your arguments and ideas with examples from musical scores, which can help illustrate your points clearly and succinctly.