If you are about to start University,

If you are returning to higher education after a break,

If you have struggled to fulfil your academic potential in your first year of undergraduate study, then you have found the right course.

By addressing where to find research materials, exploring how best to structure your essay and considering how you can present great content, you immediately establish yourself as a keen and informed undergraduate essay writer.

This course aims to ensure that as an undergraduate essay writer, you adopt best practice. I will introduce you to a range of quality scholarly online resources that become the foundation of your essay writing. I will also present options to assist you with essay construction.

This course explains the best ways to research and plan an undergraduate essay.

• It illustrates how to use lectures to inform your thinking and writing.

• It shares best practice for note-taking.

• It identifies vital online research portals for science, arts and humanities.

• It explains how an Introduction immediately alerts markers to the standard of research.

• It explains how key verbs in an essay question lend themselves to a particular essay writing structure.

• It provides different options for structuring an essay.

• It identifies the elements that create a clear and crisp conclusion.

• It addresses how to combine research and structure.

• It provides a template for building a bibliography and constructing appendices.

The goal is to provide you with a logical way to create a clear and concise undergraduate essay.