Footnotes Dos and Don’ts

If you’ve ever read a textbook or an academic paper, chances are you’ve come across footnotes. Footnotes exist to represent either citations or additional pieces of information. How you use footnotes in your essay will depend on which essay style you are using. This short guide will act as a point of reference for planning […]

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Dissertation First Steps: Primary Research

So you made this far. Congratulations! Now it’s time for the holy grail of graduate work; the dissertation. It’s a big endeavour, and while in many ways a dissertation is not much more than a big research project, it must be comprehensive, and demonstrate a level of mastery over your domain. This comes from research, […]

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Directive Essay Words

It is sometimes said that the difference between a good grade and a great one is the difference between someone who sees key words and charges with an answer, and someone who takes the time to read the question 2 or 3 times to make sure they understand it. This can happen with exams, quizzes […]

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Descriptive Writing

Have you ever been so enthralled by a book that you could actually visualize the descriptions of the characters and events? If you have, then you have come into contact with an example of great descriptive writing. Descriptive writing is defined as a literary device wherein the writer uses descriptive language to paint a picture […]

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