ABSTRACT
Many students are more concerned with the mark they get than with the feedback tutors offer them. The most useful feedback is the kind that transfers to other essays. So, if a tutor points out that we haven’t considered counterarguments to our position, think about whether this is an approach that is unique to the particular essay we have written, or a pattern in our work. The alluder is someone who makes allusions, oblique references to points rather than the points themselves. The alluder’s essay often degenerates into a kind of name-dropping with hints at the arguments that it would be tedious for the writer to spell out in detail. Digressors, who may also be fact regurgitators, often begin their essays well with direct references to the question set, and so on.
