Examples of common mistakes in Essay
Re-directly search for information in the relevant websites, Google Translate, deepL Translate;
Before handing in, go to Grammarly to modify the grammatical errors.
Chinese literature directly add, on the irrelevant English literature intext citations.
The machine-turned sentences are obvious traces of the whole Chinese direct translation of the professor simply can not read and understand.
If you are lucky, you can barely pass the exam, but if you are unlucky, you will have to fail, or even be asked by the teacher to meet with you.
At least find someone to modify and embellish the words and grammar, so that the whole essay is not so obvious Chinese English, yamabobs encountered this situation must not be directly turned over on the hand over!
Some reasons for low scores
too descriptive, no critical analysis
written in long paragraphs and sentences
full of ambiguity and redundancy
The reason for the above three points is that there is no suitable structural framework, which affects the score.
Determining the type of essay
There are three common types of essays.
Argumentative essay: focuses on the presentation of ideas and argumentation.
Descriptive essay: focuses on description and illustration
Reflective essays: essays that summarise experiences, or are afterthoughts.
Before writing, you need to be clear about what type of essay you want to write and what the purpose of the essay is, so that you can be sure that you are going in the right direction.
Essay structure
Introduction: 10% of the essay, a high percentage of the score, a large impact.
Introduction is in various forms, but the format is similar! ! !
Show that you have understood the title… .
State your objectives in the essay …
Outline which aspects of the subject ….
Introduction.
Background: Studies over the past two decades have provided important information on ….
Definition of key term(s): While a variety of definitions of the term X have been suggested, this paper will use the definition first suggested by Smith ( 1968) who saw it as …
lmportance of topic: In the history of development economics, X has been thought of as a key factor in ….
Highlighting inadequacies of previous studies: Although extensive research has been carried out on X, no single study exists which ….
study exists which …
Brief mention of your methodology: A combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches was used in the data
Brief mention of your methodology: A combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches was used in the data analysis.
Indicating significance: The present research explores, for the first time, the effects of . . owvever due to practical constraints, this paper cannot provide a comprehensive review of …. .
tatement: The main issues addressed in this paper are: a), b) and c)
Outlining thestructure: This paper first gives a brief overview of the recent history of X. The third chapter is concerned with the methodology used for The third chapter is concerned with the methodology used for this study.
The fourth section presents the findingsof the research,focusing on the three key themes that .
Main Body:Part of 80%, showing critical analysis Some writing steps.
Summarise the literature(about one or two lines)
Compare it to other literature in this field
Comment on the strengths and weakness of the literature
Main body:Topic sentence+Example+Analysis+Concluding sentence
The main body: Topic sentence, Topic sentence in order to connect with the previous smooth, with describe the beginning will be more acceptable, for example:.
Despite the focus on . it appears that … while …
Supporting evidence.
Somebody suggests/argues (author, year) …
Affirmation of position OR contrasting quotation Affirmation of position, e.g. So what kind of ….. Then the second paragraph starts with In addition to echo the previous.
The third paragraph uses Before to echo the previous two paragraphs.
Contrasting quotation: It can be the shortcomings of the previous research, or the contradictions of the previous different views, etc.
Concluding sentence: a sentence to sum up the point of view and echo the above and below, thousands of people thousands of law, there is no uniform format, according to the content of the summary can be
Conclusion: the same 10%, 150 words.
Thesis statement: A sentence summarising the point of view and echoing the context, no uniform format, according to the content can be summarised.
Thesis statement
Overview of your Main Body in the main argument (in other words, can not be copied)
Propose some suggestions, how to improve the current situation and so on.
Conclusion framework.
Summarise the content of the body
Summary ofthe main themes: From the review of the current literature, it can be seen that….
Point out the insufficiency of the previous researchgap: While much of the previous literature has focussed on…. , there have been few studies which examin….
承上启下，引出观点Link gap to writer’s own research: Thus there is scope for further research which…
简要概括观点summary of writer’s own research: Therefore, this study aims to… .
Understand the rules of the game
Before writing your essay, read through the criteria; it’s like a fixed formula, follow it!
Allow time for revision
The first draft is usually not as good as the second draft, after writing, you can let your classmates, teachers to give some advice; often the advice given by others will be better than their own optimisation, after all, the observer is clear!
Write down your ideas during the writing process
The idea is like a spring, essay writing inspiration is too important; when there is inspiration, a few hours can be out of the manuscript; on the contrary, if there is no inspiration, sitting at the table in front of the whole day also can not write out; when there are some small inspiration, must be sure to write down, rush due to use!
Learn to integrate the literature.
Organise ideas will generally start from the literature, different literature has different points of view; this time to think of a good classification, try to have their own initial point of view before, so as to make good choices, which can be used which can not be used…. If there is no point of view to read the literature, it is easy to be influenced by these views and sway, delay!
