Few chapters cause as much quiet panic as the literature review. You have read dozens of papers, your desk is buried under PDFs, and now you are supposed to turn all of that into one coherent chapter. Most students go wrong in the same place: they treat it as a summary of everything they read, …
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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.
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Most plagiarism at university is not deliberate. It happens when a student rewrites a sentence word by word and believes they have paraphrased.
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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.
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The conclusion is the most rushed chapter in most dissertations, and the last thing an examiner reads before deciding your mark.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It is one of the most common referencing problems and one of the least well explained. A government web page, a company policy document, an NHS information leaflet: none of them list a person as the author, and every referencing guide seems to assume yours does. The rule for how to reference a website with …
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