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The Need Of Researching For Essay Writing

An aspect of essay writing is that it draws on the work of other writers and researchers. Thus, the skills of interpreting, researching, and writing are essential to essay writing. Researching confers the knowledge and facts that you need you to draft an argument and respond the essay question.

Reading for preparing your essay

Commence reading as soon as you get the question so you have enough plenty time to become acquainted with the subject. When reading the material you have research, remember to read with a purpose. Good question to ask yourself include:

• What do I currently know about the subject?

• What material is required to answer essay question?

• Is the material relevant to the subject?

• Can I use these research materials in my argument

Reading lists

If you are given a list of recommended readings, read as many as you can. Otherwise, find the references in the library. Use the database to searche. Once you have your readings:

• use the table of contents and the

index to find relevant material

• skim through the text to locate

specific information

• when you find something you need to read carefully, highlight the material with a post-it note so you can return for a close reading

• photocopy useful sections of

Summarise content from the readings

It’s essential to summarise what you have read. Your summaries should be the foundation of your essay.

There is no need to take notes in your initial reading of the material. Highlight information or facts you think are useful. You can return to it when you re-read and take notes.

Summarise your research materials with the question of your essay in mind. You must employ the facts and evidence you have found to help assist your

materials so you can emphasise and make notes.

Thinking it through

Essay writing requires both creative and critical thinking.

Central argument. This, for example, can

• Creative thinking

encourages

be summaries or direct quotation from the materials, useful diagrams, case analysis studies or statistical data.

Remember to cite everything. Note the bibliographic information of each text you read. Remember to include the date, author, publisher, title and place of publication. This will save your time when doing boring referencing!

3. Planning your thoughts

Begin planning your research findings and ideas into an argument.

Essay strategies

Following your research and development of central arguments to your essay, you ought to draft a second essay plan. This second essay plan will answer the topic and how the thesis will be ordered. The second essay plan ought to include:

• Make a decision on a potential answer to the question

• Settle on the facts and evidence you will utilise to respond to the question.

• Making a decision on which issues you will examine, and the structure in which they will appear.

• Jot this all down in point form!

you to broaden your ideas. Try techniques like brainstorming or mind mapping.

• Analytical thinking allows you to narrow the focus of your ideas (for example, asking why an example is important to your argument).

Your essay should be balanced: that is, it should include a range of information and viewpoints from different authors that explore the key arguments and relevant aspects of a particular topic.

Don’t only cite evidence that confirm what you are arguing; if there are different or opposing views, then they need to be examined.

You need to evaluate differing arguments – explain why one argument is more convincing than another and how they relate to the conclusion your essay arrives at.

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