Where essays lose marks most often
After enough essays the same handful of problems keep reappearing, and almost none of them are spelling. These are the ones we look for first.
- A thesis that is implied in the conclusion but never stated in the introduction
- Description where the question asked for analysis or evaluation
- Paragraphs carrying two or three ideas instead of one
- Quotations dropped in and left to speak for themselves
- Counterarguments ignored rather than addressed and answered
- A conclusion that summarises rather than concluding anything
- Citations in the text that never appear in the reference list