ABSTRACT

I’m getting on with the essay, I started the page numbers yesterday morning, they look really neat.

Many of the chapters in this book start with some reasons why practising a particular skill might be a moderately good idea, and an analogy involving practising playing musical instruments or sport. Now demonstrate your advanced creative skills by designing your own opening. Create two well-argued sentences using the following words or phrases: reports, communication, language, persuasion, cheerful examiners, lifelong, clarity; with needs . solos, practise, bagpipe, As, writing

The paragraph above may give you an insight into how annoying examiners fi nd disjointed, half-written paragraphs, with odd words and phrases rather than a structured argument. Such paragraphs have no place in essays. If this is the fi rst chapter you have turned to, keep reading!