ABSTRACT
Students are often ill-prepared for writing tertiary-level essays, and experience a great shock when their first essay is returned with a lower than expected mark. There is a jump in the standard of work required when the students move from secondary school to a tertiary institution. This chapter presents a way for the students to acquire these skills, but remember that hard work and plenty of practice are needed for the students to master them. Consider keeping an alphabetically indexed section of definitions of keywords, which the students can update regularly, at the front or back of the students subject folder. Voluntary group work usually takes the form of a study group, in which the students choose to study collaboratively with other students, and meet as needed. Working together with fellow students has a number of benefits, such as helping one another to understand subject content, and giving each other feedback on drafts of written work before submission.
