Essay writing
- How to Write an Essay (University of Manchester)
http://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/studyskills/essentials/writing/how_to_write.html
(detailed advice on essay writing; part of the skills-website of the University of Manchester)
- The History Essay Checklist (George Campbell Gosling)
http://gcgosling.wordpress.com/2014/02/25/history-essay-checklist/
(valuable advice at the level of the sentence and paragraph)
- Structuring essays (Melodee Beals)
http://mhbeals.com/reversing-engineering-assessment-criteria-or-so-thats-what-you-meant-by-critically-analyse/
(detailed advice on structuring an essay, especially essays on historical topics)
- Developing your essay writing (University of Reading)
http://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/studyadvice/studyresources/essays/sta-developessay.aspx
(detailed advice on essay writing; part of the skills-website of the University of Manchester)
- Five things you need to think about when starting your dissertation (Sara Barker)
http://hehistoryhub.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/five-things-you-need-to-think-about-when-starting-your-dissertation/
(advice useful especially in the early stage of a dissertation, including advice on choosing a topic, working with primary sources and working with a supervisor)
- Get critical, get digital, get EDEU… (Sue Watling)
http://suewatling.dev.lincoln.ac.uk/2014/04/12/get-critical-get-digital-get-edeu/
(links concerning writing skills, University of Lincoln)
- The Thesis Whisperer – 5 ways to declutter your writing (Inger Mewburn)
http://thesiswhisperer.com/2010/11/04/5-ways-to-declutter-your-writing/
(advice especially on editing your text and improving the style)
- The Thesis Whisperer – What to do when your thesis is rejected by the examiners (Inger Mewburn)
http://thesiswhisperer.com/2014/03/05/what-to-do-when-your-thesis-is-rejected-by-the-examiners/ (How to cope with problems in the student/supervisor relationship; what to do when the thesis has to be resubmitted; related links in the end of the blog post)
- How to write paragraphs (Patrick Dunleavy)
https://medium.com/advice-and-help-in-authoring-a-phd-or-non-fiction/80781e2f3054/
(advice on structuring paragraphs, identifies six common problems when writing a paragraph)
- Seven questions to ask about how your chapter ends (Patrick Dunleavy)
https://medium.com/p/262d5ad5e653
(helpful advice on designing the end/conclusion of a chapter)
- HistoryToday – Help and Advice for Students
Help and Advice for Students/
(links to several articles giving advice on different aspects of essay writing)
- 10 Simple Lessons to Improve Your Writing (A.J. Juliani)
ajjuliani.com/10-lessons-improve-your-writing/
(10 tips to improve your writing skills)
- The Writer’s Technique in Thirteen Theses: Walter Benjamin’s Timeless Advice on Writing (Maria Popova)
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/04/15/the-writers-technique-in-thirteen-theses-walter-benjamin/
(summary on Walter Benjamin’s advice on writing technique)
- your academic writing is “slow” – some thoughts on pace (Pat Thomson)
http://patthomson.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/your-writing-is-too-slow-but-what-is-slow/
(explanation of the “show and tell”-technique and how to use it to make a chapter more reader-friendly)
- The Writer’s Handbook – Developing a Thesis Statement (University of Wisconsin)
http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/thesis_composedraft.html
(technique of developing a draft thesis statement)
- Thesis statements (University of California)
http://write.oid.ucla.edu/assets/docs/global-writing-issues/effective-thesis-statements/2Thesis_statement_history.pdf
(Advice on composing a thesis statement using “what”, “how” and “why”; indentifies common problems concerning writing a thesis stetement)
- Writing a literature review as your dissertation
http://www2.plymouth.ac.uk/millbrook/rsources/litrev/lrabstract.htm
(detailed advice on writing literature reviews, including advice on abstract, main body and conclusion of the work)
- Online Writing Lab – General Writing Resources
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/1/
(whole wep-page about writing, from basic (grammar) to advanced (essay writing))