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Doing research is the most tiring and tedious step in writing an essay. This requires focus as finding the write evidence and being able to properly gage how useful evidence is quite difficult in the sea of information known as the internet. As a result, going on online journals is usually a must when writing essays for uni. However, sometimes websites such as JSTOR or academia.edu require you to pay for access to certain materials. Luckily, a useful tip in gaining access to these types of material is to log in through your institution. To do this just follow the following steps:

1. Click “Log in through Institution”
2. Find and select your institution
3. Log in through your single-sign on account

Writing essay outlines are an extremely important part of essay writing in UK universities. This is because the questions themselves can be more detailed when read after a few times. So writing an essay outline and establishing your stance within the essay will save you the panic of worrying if your essay answers the question appropriately.

Writing essay outlines is very standard and you all are probably used to it. But the key is to write your thesis in a way that you won’t forget your stance when writing your essay. The standard way in writing a useful essay outline is the following:

1. THESIS (write your thesis in bold and at the top of your outline)
2. Argument 1
3. Evidence
4. Analysis
5. Repeat steps 2-3 until you feel you’ve had enough arguments
6. Conclusion

Essay ideas is a very vague concept to discuss. This very vagueness is what makes writing essays an interesting journey as you can take your essay on any narrative you desire. However, for the sake of this article, we will be discussing two easy processes to come up with essay ideas; rationalising evidence and succumbing to evidence.

The first process, rationalising evidence is probably the easiest way to come up with ideas. All you have to do is use your own knowledge of the subject and make up a fantasy stance towards it. If you have sufficient knowledge of the subject then it will make the research process much easier. For example, if you are given an assignment to write an essay on the political dimensions of the Covid-19 pandemic you’d probably already have your own knowledge of the subject. Say for example you took a stance that it was not politicised, what you’d do is only use evidence stating so or use excerpts of evidence which you would further extrapolate to plead your case. This way you would not have to revise your original stance and can deliver powerful arguments.

The second process in coming up with essay ideas is succumbing to evidence. This process will take multiple revisions on the essay in general as you might have to change your original stance. Anyway to use this process in coming up with essay ideas what you need to initially establish are the specific elements of a topic you want to discuss. For example, when discussing the politicisation of the Covid-19 pandemic you might want to narrow the topic to elections are discrediting certain political parties. This way you’ll know what data to research. After that, you will have to find the relevant data and from there build your arguments.

Properly reading the question or the assignment guidelines is a massive first step in writing a good essay. These questions usually hold more meaning than first perceived so doing this should be done with great attention. To do this effectively, there are several things that you need to take note of. First, identify the problem in the question. Once you’ve identified the problem you’ll be able to construct your essay and arguments correctly so that they answer the problem. Second, identify the concepts you should use. Some essay questions mention specific concepts or refer to examples that you have to use. Ignoring this will definitely hurt your grades. Third, identify the range of the problem. By identifying the range you will be able to apply a specific focus towards a certain unit of analysis. This will dictate the amount of elements that you will factor into your arguments.

Personally, I hate laboratory practicals. They are by far the most troublesome and stressful types of classes that I have ever come across. However, for those of you who have these classes they are absolutely essential for your grades. This is apparent in the lab report you’ll have to submit on your activities within the class.

The main tip when participating in laboratory practicals is handling the equipment. As university labs are usually supplied with professional grade equipment, special attention must be taken when handling them for several reasons. First, you should make sure to be using them correctly. Knowing the right procedures in handling equipment will allow you to actually finish your lab report so your tutor will have something good to grade. Second, replacing them could decimate your wallet. As they are professional grade equipment, you would probably be unable to afford a replacement if you end up breaking one of them.