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Unlike
the compositions you wrote at school, you are no longer just presenting
information. Most college essays are argumentative essays and
you must show your analytical skills. In order to write a persuasive
essay you still need to collect and present your information.
But you must also work out implications, assess its relevance,
judge the results, evaluate the evidence, criticize and debate
the essay topic. Youll find you need to critically research
propositions to decide if the evidence justifies the conclusions
or if you need to question the assumptions underlying a new theory.
In other words, you must show that you can think clearly and reason
logically.
In
most subjects, your tutors are not looking for the correct answer.
If you are discussing an issue or describing an historical event,
theres no one way of answering or one line of reasoning
to follow. You may even disagree with the conventionally accepted
view on a subject although in doing so, you should assess
and deal with opposing views.
Your
tutors may agree or disagree with the views you present, but they
should not mark you down for taking a standpoint. Disagreement
will not result in a poor grade, writing a bad essay will. Whatever
line you argue, you will gain a good grade if you back it up with
firm evidence, logical reasoning and sound arguments.
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