Plan Your Essay

A Super Quick guide to planning an academic essay, from setting your structure and developing an argument to staying on topic.

List of contents

Why Do I Have to Write Essays?
What Am I Writing?
Where Does The Question Come From?
What Do The Instruction Verbs Mean?
What Do You Mean By Evidence and Support?
How Do I Organize My Essay?
How Do I Organize a Research-based Essay or Paper?
How Much Do I Write?

About the author

Phillip C. Shon received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Illinois (Chicago); he also holds an M.A. in linguistics and a B.A. in philosophy from Northeastern Illinois University (Chicago). He is currently a Professor of Criminology at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology where he teaches courses in homicide and criminological theory.

He is the author of How to Read Journal Articles in the Social Sciences (2^nd ed.). London: Sage, 2015; Language and Demeanor in Police-Citizen Encounters. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2008; Respect, Defense, and Self-Identity: Profiling Parricide in Nineteenth-Century America, 1852-1899. New York: Peter Lang, 2014. He is a co-editor (with Dragan Milovanovic) of Serial Killers: Understanding Lust Murders. (eds). Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2006.

Phil grew up in Chicago. He no longer hides the shame of being a Cubs fan, and has completely forgotten Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series. He is patiently awaiting the Chicago Bears to come up with a sequel to the “Super Bowl Shuffle” before they return once more to the Promised Land. 

Summary

A Super Quick guide to planning an academic essay, from setting your structure and developing an argument to staying on topic.

Product details

• Authors: Phillip C. Shon, Phillip C. (Professor of Criminology At the Shon, Phillip C. (Professor of Criminology at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology) Shon, Phillip C. C. Shon, Phillip C. C. (Professor of Criminology At t Shon
• Assisted by: Phillip Shon (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781526488886
• ISBN: 978-1-5264-8888-6
• No. of pages: 104
• Series: Super Quick Skills; Super Quick Skills
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, EDUCATION / Essays, Writing & editing guides, Study & learning skills: general, Writing and editing guides, Study and learning skills: general, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Academic & Scholarly