Hints on writing Essays, Reports and Dissertations

Here follow a couple of remarks, which might improve the quality of essays and reports: • Look very carefully at the marking scheme for your essay, report, or dissertation, and what each item it requires. Then make sure you address each item. • In the motivation say what could motivate the audience, not what mo-tivates you. (E.g. that you want to learn about an area since childhood doesn’t motivate others, only you; think instead why this area is im-portant, interesting, etc). • Essays and reports should contain title, table of contents, introduction, conclusion, list of references (which must not consist of web addresses only), citations in the text, and numbered chapters. • To copy sentences and small paragraphs from other texts is acceptable, if cited correctly (especially, quotation marks should be put around them). To do this for longer paragraphs doesn’t give a good impression