Hi everyone! This is Farzana from Farzana's Law, and in today's video, I'll be sharing
with you all how to get 80% on your all university essays, and if you want interested
to find out the references and the style of essays, and how to get 80% in that category,
then please keep watching this video till the end. In last week's video, we spoke about the writing
and the research part of the essay, and how to get 80% in all those kinds of things. However,
in this week's video, we're going to talking about the references and the style of the essay, which
I believe are equally important to get an 80% or more in your next university essay, so if you're
interested to find out the tips and tricks that I have found available in this mark scheme that
I've also shared in the last week's video, then please keep watching this video till the end. I'm
going to be sharing with you all the mark schemes so that you can exactly see the word by word,
what the teachers are expecting you to achieve in terms of references and style because that's what
I'm gonna be focusing on this week's video, but in terms of references, this is basically what
you have to look for. Looking at this, you can pause this video, and read the whole entire thing,
so that later on we can discuss after you resume it, and see what are the key points that the
teachers want you to basically achieve in terms of references to get an 80% or more. So, looking
at this mark scheme, I can clearly see that the first things first that, your teachers want you
to make sure that your references, your bibliography, your footnotes, your citations, and
everything in between, are all flawless basically. There should be no error, or there should be no
room for error basically, and you can do this very easily by just looking at your university's
preferred referencing style. For example, for my university, the University of Westminster,
we used OSCOLA referencing style for every single law essay that we did in the university,
so you have to make sure and consulted with your teacher very well because there are different
kinds of referencing styles, right? For example, I know before I started university, I knew that
my brother, for example, did Harvard style referencing, and that was completely different
than OSCOLA, so I could not really do his style to my essays, so you have to make sure that your
references, your footnotes, your citations, your bibliography section, everything in between, are
all flawless and there's no room for error, which is why you have to keep checking this section
all the time as you're referencing and as you're writing your essay. In that way, you'll be able
to achieve that 80% that you wish to achieve by the end of the essay. This section of the
marking scheme is pretty self-explanatory, there's not really much to say except the fact that you
have to make sure that your references, footnote, citations, and everything between that I mentioned
in the previous clip are basically flawless and 100% correct, which is why you have to check your
referencing style as many times as possible. But now, I'm going to be moving on to the last part of
this whole entire video, which is style, and how to get 80% in terms of style when you're writing
your essay, your university, or academic essay. So for that, I'm going to be sharing with you all the
mark scheme, which is right in front of you right here again, you can pause this video and read
the whole entire thing so that you can understand yourself before I discuss the points that I found
myself looking at this mark scheme. The first thing first that I can basically see right away
is the fact that you have to use terminology which is correct and which is basically identifiable,
and useful, and relevant to the essay that you're writing. So for example, if I'm writing a Law
essay, I have to write terminology or definitions of words that are basically relatable to the essay
that I'm writing about. I cannot be writing or using, for example, scientific words in a
law essay, so the terminology has to be used in a manner that is relatable and relevant to the essay
question that you're doing. The second point that I straightaway found is also the fact that you
need to have a good structure to your essay, which means that you cannot be waffling around, and you
need to have a plan as to how you're going to be approaching this essay question, and breaking it
down, which is why in my next week's video, I'll be talking about how to exactly break down your
question your essay question in a manner that you can get an easy well thought out structure,
because people can write really good essays, but if your structure is really poor, and it does not
really answer the question that your teacher is trying to make you basically get an answer from,
then it's going to be really hard for you to really achieve an 80% or more, because
80% means that you are flawless in every aspect of the essay, and you need to give your
best in a way. Having a good structure really makes sure that you're gonna have that because,
everything that you say in an essay has to sound very logical and has to look as though you have
put a lot of thinking into it, and you reflect it a lot, and you basically picked out the relevant
research as well, so a good structure can really help you achieve that 80%, only if you have one.
I know the next thing is not really mentioned in the mark scheme but, I think the one thing that
has definitely made me stand out and it made me achieve 1st in my university essays, is the fact
that I've included a cover page before writing my essay. So, by the time I finished writing my essay
and everything was basically perfectly done, I have edited, I have proofread and everything
between, I've also added basically at the end just a simple cover page, where I basically maybe
included an image with my name and my candidate number, and that has made my essay look much
more professional, much more put together, much more thoughtful, and that can make it look like
they're basically a very professional person, and obviously, that might not necessarily increase the
marks, but that makes you yourself look really good and presentable to the person who might be
reading it, because let's be honest, if you're a teacher yourself, and you have read 200 essays,
and you've seen black and white everywhere, but you decided to stand out and basically include
a cover page, that can make it look absolutely amazing, and that boosts your chances of actually
getting that 80%. This is actually one of the tips that I got from my brother because he
completed Aerospace Engineering for example, and he basically used that tip to basically
make sure every time he submitted an essay, he would basically put a cover page, in that way,
it will make him stand out, and that made him look more professional and more academic in a sense.
So, I will include some examples of my cover pages if you want to get some inspiration,
but including a cover page is a really good idea. Similarly to the next point that I'm going to be
mentioning is about having a good layout. So for example, when you're starting to write an
essay first, you're going to have the cover page, then you're going to have the contents page...now
contents page...not everybody writes it and not everybody wants to do it because first of all,
it cuts down your words, and second of all, it can be annoying checking the page numbers all the time
and everything. But, having a good layout for your essay is really good as well. So for example for
me, it would be having a cover page, and then a content page, which is very short and minimal, or
if it's really cutting my words, then I would just basically not include one, but if I have the spare
amount of words, which is very rare in cases, I would just basically include a contents page.
And then, I'm going to write the essay, and then I'm going to include the bibliography at the end,
and then I'm going to include the appendix. So, the appendix is basically any kind of
sources that you have used, for example, graphs, images, or anything like that you have used in
your essay, you can include them in the appendix so that it doesn't distract you when you're going
to be including them in the actual essay itself, or the body itself, because in that way, it can
be very confusing and distracting for the person reading it. So, that will be the tips that I've
basically gathered in terms of style overall. So this brings me to the end of today's video. I hope
you really enjoyed it and found some of the tips really helpful for the next university essay that
you might be writing. Of course, this is gonna be like a whole series every *Tuesday* when I'm gonna
be sharing tips on how to get your 1st Class on all kinds of university essays, so I'm going to
be starting on with the mark scheme, and then I will tackle the essay question breakdown, and
then what to include in terms of research, and the introduction conclusion, and everything
between. So, it's going to be like a whole playlist of A-Z, or what to do basically to get
First-Class Honours in all of your academic essays. So if you're interested to find out,
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