Reading english and writing essays: a student's guide

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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