Whenever you are asked to submit an assignment for university, you also get told the name of the tutor who will be marking the work. You can contact this person and ask to have a tutorial with them - you can then take along a first draft of your work for their comments and suggestions.
Once you have the marked work back you can then request another tutorial to discuss your marks (in addition to the comments you get back with the marked work).
Well I'm glad I took advantage of this today. Previously I have undertook science and social science courses and didn't think writing essays for a nursing course would be any different for a nursing course. It is.
It was only through talking about my assignment that I began to understand why. Nursing is evidence based so your essays need to be strongly evidence based. You need to use at least 10 different pieces of evidence from journals, government websites, topic based books and lobby groups (websites such as BHF etc). Social science courses need a lot less. But that isn't to say your whole work needs to be essays - about 1/3 of it perhaps.
I have decided to make a series of help sheets such as essay tick lists for reflective essays, literature reviews and informative essays.
Also evidence needs to be recent and age related. For example - my reflective essay is based on a teen and my evidence was for a child, therefore I had irrelevant evidence.
I am so glad I sought out these tutorials and strongly recommend anyone to do the same.
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