The word essay comes from the French word ‘essayer’ meaning ‘to try’ or ‘to attempt’. A French writer called Michel de Montaigne invented the essay in Europe as his ‘attempt’ to write about himself ...

So you've been assigned to write an essay. You know you'll be spending the next few weeks of your life with this sort of hanging over your head; you'll do a lot of writing and asking yourself "What on ...

To write a good university essay you have to make your message clear. This means organizing your key points, supporting them with a series of evidence-based arguments, and wrapping it all up at the ...