{"id":13386,"date":"2016-08-15T03:52:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T03:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/unglobalgovdiplomacy\/?page_id=13386"},"modified":"2016-08-15T03:52:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T03:52:55","slug":"build-your-essay-writing-skills","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/unglobalgovdiplomacy\/modules-1-4\/module-one-introduction\/build-your-essay-writing-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Build your Essay Writing Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\"><div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"media\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/unglobalgovdiplomacy\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_multimedia.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Introduction Activity Three  (Required Activity)<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Like most university courses, much of the assessment for this course will take the form of written work.  Your essay will count for 40% of your final mark; in addition 40% of your final mark will comprise online submissions, many of which may be in short essay form.  Yet it is very common for students to be unsure of how to approach a written essay, or how to present their arguments most effectively.  In this activity, you will explore the features of a good essay.  Remember, at any point in the course you can return to the information and links in this module to assist you.\n<\/p>\n<p>First, watch this video on the features of a good essay:\n<\/p>\n<p>It is in five parts; below is part one.  Part one (required) contains a valuable overview of the features of a good essay. For further detail students can also access parts two to five (optional) easily from the end of part one.\n<\/p>\n<p><b>How to Write a University Essay &#8211; The Basics<\/b> (9:41)\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"plainlinks\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425px\" height=\"355px\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OyrnaepYSSw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\nNext, explore these helpful written sources:\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe University of Newcastle has a very good website with detailed information about each component of an academic essay:\n<\/p>\n<p>Available at: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newcastle.edu.au\/current-students\/learning\/study-skills\/develop-your-skills\/essay-writing\">https:\/\/www.newcastle.edu.au\/current-students\/learning\/study-skills\/develop-your-skills\/essay-writing<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe University of Wollongong also has some information on effective essay writing here:\n<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/unilearning.uow.edu.au\/main.html\">http:\/\/unilearning.uow.edu.au\/main.html<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.021 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.024 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 139\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 976\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 4581\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 3075\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 7\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:169646-0!*!*!*!*!2!* and timestamp 20160815035253 and revision id 980929\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/unglobalgovdiplomacy\/modules-1-4\/module-one-introduction\/sign-up-to-receive-some-blogs-and-tweets\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/unglobalgovdiplomacy\/modules-1-4\/module-one-introduction\/read-the-subject-information-and-study-guide\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2190 Previous Next \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":13376,"menu_order":1300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13386","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/unglobalgovdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/unglobalgovdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/unglobalgovdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/unglobalgovdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/unglobalgovdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/unglobalgovdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13387,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/unglobalgovdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13386\/revisions\/13387"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/unglobalgovdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/unglobalgovdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}