Essay Writing Skills: Planning Your Essay

By Grant Andrews

A quick and easy guide to planning your essay
This short guide will give you the tools you need to plan your essay effectively, so that you're sure you're answering the question and that you construct a good, effective piece of writing.

Learn how to understand the question, brainstorm ideas, find your thesis statement and plan paragraphs before you start writing.

Whether you're writing an essay or a master's or doctoral thesis, this guide will be useful for making sure that you start your journey of academic writing on the right foot. You'll be able to master the skill in just over 30 minutes. The guide is written by Dr. Grant Andrews, who has been teaching academic writing for years, and who knows the common pitfalls that students experience in academic writing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Grant Andrews
• Release date: Jul 10, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370314188

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Essay Writing Skills: Planning an Essay

Essay and Thesis Writing Series

Grant Andrews

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Copyright © 2017 by Grant Andrews

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Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Understanding the Topic

Chapter 3: Brainstorming Ideas

Chapter 4: Finding Your Thesis Statement

Chapter 5: Planning Paragraphs

Things to Remember

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Reviews for Essay Writing Skills

[bmraval · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Very concise yet comprehensive guide on how to write academy and general essays.

[Elijah · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A brief technical resource book to help students or new writers. It outlines basic structures of essay and define essay concepts used in all writing styles. Great book!

[GQ · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Short and very straight-forward and covers a lot and very important information which can improves a student/person essay writing skills by a lot. Really enjoyed reading this and thank you for the necessary knowledge I needed. With this knowledge, I'll be very confident in writing essays for assignments and for exams. Thank you!