The online writing and learning link owll is massey university 39 s gateway to a wide range of study and writing resources. All students, whether internal or distance, undergraduate or postgraduate, native english speaking or esol, can use this website to develop their academic skills. Owll covers topics such as how to study, how to write assignments, how to reference, and how to study for exams.

The content of owll has been developed by allan smee and present and previous staff of massey university 39 s student learning centres and centres for teaching and learning. How to use owll you can find a particular page or topic on owll by using the search page. The menu to the left will take you directly to the contents pages of major sections e.g. Academic writing follows specific conventions of structure, style, and content, and your marker will expect to see these conventions in your assignments.

This section describes academic writing, and suggests ways to plan and proofread your assignment so that it meets the expectations of tertiary study. In this section related sections specific types of assignment for example, essays, reports, and literature reviews have their own expectations, and these are described in the section on assignment types. Most assignments require you to properly credit any external sources like books, articles, and websites that you have used. For a broader understanding of honesty in assignment writing, see academic integrity. This resource has been designed for massey university students who are new to the conventions of academic writing. Many students, including distance, internal, and both domestic and international, may find this book useful, especially as the examples provided are not limited to a specific discipline. The book offers advice and guidance on how to write university assignments, including a section on the writing process, with particular reference to essays.

Another section deals with the basics of report writing, incorporating sub sections on business report writing as well as lab report writing. When writing university assignments, referencing the work of others is integral, hence there are sections on integrating the opinions of authors into your assignments, as well as how to construct a reference list at the end of your assignment. What would you do if you had an hour all to yourself tonight? read a book? soak in the tub? take a leisurely stroll? i’d shave my legs. With a full time job, seven kids, two cats and a neurotic dog to take care of, by the time i even think to shave my legs, i need a weedwacker. Shorten the paper trail americans spend up to three hours every month shuffling through papers and paying bills and their homes are flooded with up to 1,0 pieces of unsolicited mail every year.

Here 39 s how to do that: remove the blame factor oftentimes, indirect language works because it focuses on the project rather than the person. Instead of saying, 39 you need to get it to me, 39 you can say, 39 reports must be turned in by. 39 let people know the result of their actions when colleagues miss deadlines, i let them know the impact: 39 if you don 39 t get it to me until tomorrow, that means we won 39 t have time to check it before shipping to your client, 39 or whatever. Talk in person or by phone it 39 s notoriously easy to hit the wrong tone and come off sharp, imperious or brusque in email when you don 39 t intend to. It 39 s easy to stress about things we didn 39 t do well but our missteps can actually teach us a thing or two about life take a moment. Not a great feeling, right? that’s because your focus was on what went wrong, rather than the solution.

What was i thinking, feeling or doing that contributed to this outcome? jane ehrman, m.ed, ches is a mind body coach at the cleveland clinic center for integrative medicine and a behavioral health specialist for lifestyle 180, cleveland clinic’s disease reversal program. Exam essay questions require an answer that can vary from several paragraphs to several pages. How much you can write will depend on the marks available for the question, and the time available. Remember, though, that it is the quality, and not just the quantity, of the answer that counts in marks. Exam essay questions allow you to demonstrate the depth of your understanding of a topic area.

You will need to structure your exam question in the usual way introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion. You will not need to reference your essay as you usually do in an essay, but you will need to acknowledge theory and research using relevant names. The specific sections and headings of a report depend on the type of report: business report lab report. However, the discussion section of any report can be organised according to several structural formats: flat, hierarchical, general specific, and relationship structures. You should select a structure that will most effectively demonstrate your organisation and examination of relevant issues.

This involves organising issues of relatively equal importance, or when there is no need to consider how issues appear in relation to other issues in terms of whether they are more or less important. These relationships or intersections comprise important components in the structure. Main issues issue a issue b issue c relationships relationship between a and b relationship between b and c relationship between c and a this structure of intersecting circles involves similar connections already identified in the previous structure.

In contrast, though, this pattern is focused more on the new structures and ideas emerging from the intersection points between two and three components i.e. A, b, and c , rather than concentrating solely on the interconnections between existing components. Hone your writing skills and learn to analyse the power of the written word to produce knowledge and influence decisions. Our academic staff specialise in: literacy in educational, professional, academic, and civic settings helping students to develop their own research on writing in academic and applied contexts find out about the bachelor of arts public and professional writing minor subject here.

139.246 technical writing and 219.202 professional and e business writing are compulsory papers choose one only via distance and internal delivery. A quotation is an exact copy of the words that someone else has written or said. These words are placed within quotation marks also known as speech marks: ldquo rdquo to indicate that it is a direct quotation and not a summary or paraphrase. A quotation can be a full sentence from another source, part of a sentence, or several sentences: when gathering demographic data it is important to remember that ldquo only relevant types of demographic information should be requested rdquo lazar, 2006, p. Quotations must always be cited, depending on the referencing system that you are using: see quotations in apa and quotations in mla for examples. In most referencing styles, quotation citations must always include the page number where the quotation was located. While quotations indicate to the marker that you have read the literature and have identified points of interest, quotations can distract from your own writing.