Essay Assignments: A user-friendly guide
By Janine Gee
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Insufficient time is consistently cited by novice higher education students as one of the major causes of their failure or poor results. On the other hand, academic staff typically opine that lack of application is the most significant cause. This simple essay assignment strategy is intended to fill the gap between these two sets of opinions.
The higher education experienced to-day is assessment and administration dominated. It is characteristically the responsibility of the contemporary higher education student to demonstrate how effective he or she can be in terms of his or her assessment results. Regardless of what you may consider to be the nature of higher education, all that seems to count is one's formal academic statement that lists the results that led to the degree awarded.
With this fact of life and its attendant challenges clearly in mind, the following insight into how to cope efficiently, effectively and legitimately with the commonplace first form of progressive assessment, viz., the essay assignment, is presented to you as simply as possible.
Please read this presentation until you fully realise just how you can cope efficiently and effectively with the first and crucial piece of assessment that higher education students typically meet. The efficiency aspect under consideration relates to the amount of lime and energy needed to complete the work required. The effectiveness aspect relates to the grade or mark achieved. (There is little benefit in completing an essay assignment in less time per thousand words of essay only to achieve a failing grade or mark.) Improved productivity should be reflected in improvements in both efficiency and effectiveness. Keep a record of your own improvements. Consider also whether your confidence and willingness to get started early improve.
Later, when you are familiar with this recipe-like system of essay organisation and preparation, you can adapt and alter this simple system to formulate your own approach to essay assignments. However, do not part with this text. It has been a relatively common experience that some purchasers of similar texts have given their copy away only to find that they cannot obtain another copy when they subsequently return to formal study. It is also helpful to return to this text after some years of following your own adaptation of this relatively simple strategy.
Though this system was devised for higher education students, it has proved its worth to secondary students as well. This simple essay organisation and preparation system has been used even by primary school children from the Year 5 level onwards, with most rewarding results.
I wish you success in your studies.
John Elms
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John Elms spent more than 20 years at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba Queensland. During this time he has conducted comprehensive applied research in regard to improving higher education student productivity. After directly observing many novice higher education students struggling with the various forms of 'progressive assessment' he formulated a simple and practical set of productivity strategies to cope with the most common forms of assessment.
His books are respected by students because the strategies described in them are easy for most students to implement and readily produce improved results.
Janine Gee
Janine Gee was born, raised and educated in Adelaide, South Australia. Throughout her diverse career she has worked all around Australia in documentation and training in the software implementation environment (Information Technology in a variety of clients' industries). This experience facilitated her progression into a career as author. On a personal level Janine, a serial monogamous dieter, tried diet after diet, each with the same disappointing result. In 2001, a lengthy juggle of dieting and many minor ailments culminated in a battle with a persistent migraine. Janine's 30-year battle with her weight and abrupt solution to a six-week migraine sparked a journey of unimaginable discovery which became the foundation of the book The Epigenetics of Diet. It is about foods, imitation foods and contaminants and their effects on our emotions, bodies and behaviour. Her first book explains how the reader can discover their ideal body shape without the need for drugs ... simply by eating real food ... a *dietary* survival guide! It dispels the myths asserted by the agricultural, pharmaceutical and psychiatric industries! Epigenetics is a fascinating science that bridges the gap between nature and nurture. People evolve in order to survive. Children born on the Gaza strip with PTSD live longer than children born there without PTSD ... and they certainly aren't medicated either. A number of elderly Australians have also teamed up with Janine to co-author many other titles about travelling safely and surviving natural disasters and man-made emergencies (Survival Guide) and University booklets that detail what is required and expected of tertiary students. Her diverse experience and extensive skill set support her talent as a gifted author and co-author of books that appeal to a wide audience. Simply take a look at the growing diversity of her titles. There is likely to be something for even the most discernible reader.
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Essay Assignments - Janine Gee
About this book
Foreword
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Essay Assignment Strategy
Summary
Conclusion
Appendix A. Glossary General Definitions of Common Instructive Key Words
Appendix B. Oxford Planning Bibliography
Appendix C. Harvard Planning Bibliography
Appendix D. Oxford Journal Planning Bibliography
Appendix E. Harvard Journal Planning Bibliography
Appendix F. Paragraph Planning Page
Appendix G. Essay Outline Planning Page
About the Author
A note from the co-author
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" ... At last, we have a way through the tangled web of academic essay writing! Too often we academics complain that such skills should be taught and practised at school, but none of this helps students at the academic coal-face to work their way through the process of forming a polished essay. Besides, many students have been away from school for some years.
But John Elms has usefully set out the 'simple' steps to 'do' an academic essay, right down to warning students to check what range of criteria is used in assessment. Some of his steps might look very obvious, but how often is it the case that an unnecessary panic grabs students as they hesitatingly work into a topic? More often than most of us are prepared to admit. And, once a student gains confidence in handling the techniques, then the intricate array of steps becomes more automatic. This too is part of the outcome of a solid academic education.
John Elms has put a wealth of experience and solid advice into one of the most useful 'textbooks' a new student can buy."
Dr. Brian Ridge Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Arts, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Qld Australia
tmp_12076b873a2018fd5dc6a241eb7ce415_OdurSf_html_m4bad4b32.pngForeword
Insufficient time is consistently cited by novice higher education students as one of the major causes of their failure or poor results. On the other hand, academic staff typically opine that lack of application is the most significant cause. This simple essay assignment strategy is intended to fill the gap between these two sets of opinions.
The higher education experienced to-day is assessment and administration dominated. It is characteristically the responsibility of the contemporary higher education student to demonstrate how effective he or she can be in terms of his or her assessment results. Regardless of what you may consider to be the nature of higher education, all that seems to 'count' is one's formal academic statement that lists the results that led to the degree awarded.
With this fact of life and its attendant challenges clearly in mind, the following insight into how to cope efficiently, effectively and legitimately with the commonplace first form of progressive assessment, viz., the essay assignment, is presented to you as simply as possible.
Please read this presentation until you fully realise just how you can cope efficiently and effectively with