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Essay Writing Website

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Brilliant Essays – the book!

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Ursula Hackett’s tried-and-tested approach for essay success helps students to create brilliant, original, high-scoring essays that are enjoyable to write – and read. With dozens of hands-on exercises and clear examples, Brilliant Essays begins with students’ everyday experience of using language, arguing a case, reading, thinking, and communicating with other people. Chapters help students to examine – and dispel – assumptions, build and control their arguments and use evidence effectively, in written assignments and timed exams. The final chapter provides clear, no-nonsense answers to frequently asked questions raised by Ursula’s students at Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Oxford and via her YouTube channel and website.

Whichever subject your students study, Brilliant Essays will take them beyond the basics and give them the tools to reach their academic potential.

Brilliant Essays gives students of all levels and disciplines the practical tools needed to decode essay questions and to really understand what their tutors are looking for. –Mark Field, University of Portsmouth, UK

This is a book for which I’ve long been waiting. Brilliant Essays is the answer to every student who asks ‘How do I get a first?’ –Richard Johnson, Queen Mary University of London, UK

With humour and verve, Ursula Hackett provides a penetrating analysis of what goes wrong in student writing, paired with effective techniques for avoiding common problems and writing incisively. I can’t wait to get this thoughtful book into my students’ hands. –Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA