Assignment 2: main essay

Tips for completing assignment:

Well done indeed for getting to Assignment 2 - the end of the module is now coming into sight!

This is perhaps the toughest of the three assignments - because it's an essay and it may be years since you were asked to write one of those. But if you follow the instructions in the course handbook and assignment guide you will be fine. We really have tried to guide you along a way that will lead to a good outcome.

So, as with Assignment 1, here are some tips to help you.

1: Think carefully as to what we are asking you to do

Before you start, and then at various points while you are making notes and then writing, check the instructions carefully. We are asking for a particular type of essay ('compare and contrast') and telling you what this will look like. Provided you keep checking back to what we ask for, you cannot go far wrong.

2: Give us evidence

As with Assignment 1 we need to have evidence that you have done what we have asked for. In this case, that you have studied and understood the course textbook. You work out what you need to do to show us this - we are not going to spoon-feed you.

3: Keep to the kind of structure we suggest

The instructions are pretty clear and we would rather you followed these and included some innovative thinking within them, rather than going off on something completely different.

4: Don't just copy the examples we give

By all means use one or two of these, but you will increase your grade if you additionally pick some others not listed which have clearly impacted your thinking.

5: Check it all through at the end

You may find it better to complete the essay and then come back to it a day or two later to check layout, spelling, clarity of thinking, logical statements, etc.

Once you send it off you are not far from the end of the course. Time to celebrate another milestone passed!