| class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: | | | | Even the most experienced academic writer or |
| 4.8pt;">Here are the most common reasons that we | | | | student can make this mistake and that is repeating |
| hear from students of why they received poor | | | | the same set of the words throughout the essay. |
| marks or have failed their essay:- | | | | This is something that can only be eliminated through |
| 1. Spelling Mistakes | | | | practice, so get practicing! |
| Spelling is something that students tend to overlook | | | | 4. Keep your Paragraphs Short |
| in their rush to complete their essays. Too many of | | | | Too many students write paragraphs within their |
| them simply rely on spell checking programmes to do | | | | essay that are too long and this can make your |
| the work for them and this often lets them down. | | | | essay or dissertation ramble and consequently you |
| The best strategy that you can employ for | | | | will lose marks. |
| minimising spelling mistakes in your essay is to read | | | | As a tip, a paragraph should only contain one idea. As |
| carefully through your work yourself. | | | | a rule of thumb of one side of A4 paper, your essay |
| 2. Grammar | | | | should contain at least three or four paragraphs. |
| It can be extremely difficult to write with such | | | | 5. Organisation of the Essay |
| perfect grammar, as there are different rules that | | | | Many universities around the world do not teach their |
| have to be followed each time that you write your | | | | students how to structure and organise their essay |
| essay. | | | | properly, beyond explaining to them that the essay |
| One of things that you can follow is to ensure that | | | | needs to include an introduction, a body of text and |
| there is a consistency of tenses. Students often | | | | a conclusion. |
| change tenses mid way through an essay without | | | | What you should do is search through the internet |
| even realising that they have done it and this of | | | | for tips on essay writing and in particular essay |
| course changes the direction of the essay | | | | structure or pop into your university library and there |
| completely. | | | | you will find many books offering advice on how |
| You can ensure that this does not happen in your | | | | best to structure your essay. For more great tips on |
| essay writing, by getting a friend to read out the | | | | Essay Writing or advice on How to write essays you |
| essay out loud to you, whilst you listen carefully for | | | | should get in touch with us today at UK |
| tense’ mistakes. | | | | Assignments, as we can always help you. |
| 3. Repeating Things in your Essay | | | | |