What Chicago Referencing Actually Is Chicago is the referencing style of the University of Chicago Press, and the default in history, art history, theology, and much of the humanities. If your module handbook says “use Chicago,” it means one thing above all: footnotes. The catch: Chicago is really two systems wearing one name, and students …
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What Makes an Essay Argumentative Most essays describe. An argumentative essay takes a side and defends it. A paper that explains what five scholars think about social media is a literature summary. A paper that argues social media should be banned in schools, then proves it against the strongest objections, is an argument. The difference …
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After you submit an assignment, your tutor uploads it to Turnitin, or your LMS sends it automatically. Within a few minutes — sometimes an hour for long papers — a coloured percentage appears next to your submission. On Blackboard, Moodle or Canvas, it’s usually a small square with a number in it. Click it, and …
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If the findings chapter of your dissertation is the evidence, the discussion chapter is the argument. It is the part where you stop reporting what you found and start explaining what it means — how it connects to the literature you reviewed, why it matters, and where its limits lie. Most examiners will tell you …
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Reflective essays are the assignment students most often misjudge. They look easy — you are writing about yourself, after all — and then the feedback comes back: “too descriptive,” “not critical enough,” “where is the analysis?” The problem is not that reflection is hard. It is that students write what happened instead of what they …
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If your module handbook says “use MLA,” you have probably already met the anxiety that comes with it: a page number in the wrong place, a title in the wrong case, a comma doing a job it was never hired for. MLA referencing is not difficult once you understand its logic. The problem is that …
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A case study is one of the most misunderstood assignments at university. Students treat it like a story — a long retelling of what happened — and then wonder why the marker gave them 55%. The truth is that a case study is an argument built on evidence. You are not just describing a case; …
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Most dissertations don’t fall apart because of bad writing. They fall apart because of a bad topic chosen in week one, when the student was guessing rather than testing: too broad, no accessible data, or a supervisor who can’t advise on it. Picking well isn’t luck — it’s a short, methodical process. We’ll work through …
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When You Need APA (And When You Don’t) APA — the referencing style of the American Psychological Association — dominates psychology, education, nursing, and the social sciences. It is the default at most US universities and widely used across Australian universities, especially in health and education programmes. UK universities tend to favour Harvard instead, which …
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Why the Introduction Feels So Hard to Write It’s ten per cent of your dissertation — maybe 1,000 to 1,500 words — yet students agonise over it more than over the analysis chapter that takes ten times as long. The introduction is the only chapter everyone reads twice: your supervisor reads it to decide what …
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