The focus of this essay is to explore the stages in producing a good college essay to the academic standard required. The essay will indicate the following points, the importance of analysing the title, the planning of the essay, the way in which to layout a good college essay, why time keeping is important, proof-reading, spelling and grammar, all about referencing and bibliography, how to use feedback and the role of self-refection.
Before you start an essay you should make sure you know what is needed in the essay, such as the word count that is needed for the essay and how words you are able to go under or over the word count. The next step in the process of producing a good essay is to analyse the title, is very important in understanding what exactly the essay should be about (Palmer, 2004). A good grade essay, for example merit and destination will come from a well-planned essay. Excellent planning of the essay allows the essay to stay on point and flow well. Cottrell, (2008) proposes that a good way to get started when planning an essay to draw a spider diagram to help get all the ideas for the essay down on paper. All essays will have the same layout. The structuring of an essay should be, the title, introduction where you will intrude the essay and it will include the main points of the essay in, main body which will develop the essay then the conclusion to conclude the essay this should not include any new or addition information that is not already stated in the essay. The interdiction and conclusion should both be ten percent of the essays word count (Cottrell, 2008). Taylor, (2003) indicates that time keeping is one of the most important skills when writing any academic work. Time keeping is an important skill as it allows the essay to be at the best standard possible as it will not be rusted. time keeping is also important because if an essay is not in on time the mark of the