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Reflective writing breaks the rule you have spent years learning. Every other assignment says keep yourself out of it. This one says put yourself in.

Most plagiarism at university is not deliberate. It happens when a student rewrites a sentence word by word and believes they have paraphrased.

Before you panic about the percentage at the top of your report, it is worth knowing that the number on its own means almost nothing.

The conclusion is the most rushed chapter in most dissertations, and the last thing an examiner reads before deciding your mark.

The introduction is the chapter supervisors most often send back, and it is almost never because the writing is poor. Here is what it actually has to do.

One set of sources, written first the way most students write it, then rewritten the way it should be, with the reasoning between the two versions.

Markers see the same handful of problems again and again, and most are invisible to the person who wrote the chapter. These are the ones that cost the most marks.

Most literature reviews that come back with disappointing marks were not badly researched. They were badly arranged. Here is how to organise one so it argues something.