Some advise about academic writing

GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR WRITTEN ACADEMIC EXAMINATIONS

 • Consider carefully what each question or topic requires and keep your answers focused. Do not simply pour out whatever you can recall about an author. Read the questions and topics carefully and answer exactly what you are asked. Providing extraneous information will not add to your mark

. • Concepts of literary theory (genre, imagery, style, rhetoric, etc) should be clear. Confusing them often results in unsatisfactory answers. 

• All your answers should be discursive and not schematic. Do not provide notes: these should be organized and integrated to produce a coherent and cohesive text.

 • Avoid contradictions and use a suitable register.

 • In topics that require a comparative approach, do not write independent blocks of information, one for every author or text involved. These must be set against each other, before deriving conclusions.

 • Most of our questions require you to critically analyze and compare texts and not reproduce fragments from secondary sources you have memorized.

 • Manage your time. Do not write a lengthy answer to one of the questions, since this will leave you with insufficient time to write the other two answers. Remember to leave some time at the end to review your answers and proofread them as much as you can. 

• Do not prevent your ideas from getting across successfully: avoid spelling mistakes, make sure that the syntax is correct and your writing legible. 

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