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Preparing for successful academic writing
Preparing for successful academic writing
4.11 Oh dear...
What makes lecturers despair when they mark essays? Let's see how Dr Kiri Williams is doing...
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Dr Kiri Williams is in her office marking assignments from a different course.
Kiri: “It’s well known that" - No, it’s not! Where’s your evidence? Where’s the reference? Known to whom?
“All the known research" - What research? Hedge it!
“The problem with it’s approach" - Oh dear…
“You can’t be sure, that you’re analysis" - Oh no. Please, no.
The paragraphs, where are your paragraphs?!
Kiri disappears under her desk.
Kiri: Calm down, Kiri. Breathe in, breathe out, 1, 2, 3… They’ll learn. They’ll learn.