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I want to explain a few things about your essay.

First of all, the deadline. The deadline for this essay is October the 18th. Not the 19th, not the 28th, not two days later because your dog was ill or your computer broke – the 18th. If it's late, I won't mark it. I won't even read it – you'll fail the assignment! So, please hand it in on time. You can even hand it in early, if you like!

You can email me the essays at j.hartshorn@lmu.ac.uk. That's H-A-R-T-S-H-O-R-N. I'll reply to say I've got it. If I don't reply within a day, it might mean I didn't get it, so please email me again to make sure. You can also bring a paper copy of the essay to my office, but let's be kind to the trees, OK? Email is better for the trees and for me.

Don't forget that you must reference every idea or quote you use that isn't your own idea. And the last page of your essay should be a list of all the books you used, in alphabetical order, not in the order you used them!

And lastly, make it easy for me to read! That means use a clear font. Arial is best, but Times New Roman is fine too. Not Comic Sans please! Size 12 font for the essay, and size 14 for the titles and subheadings. And use page numbers. Any questions?

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Discussion

What do you find difficult about writing essays?

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I find difficult about writing essays is how to summarise your broad Idea in few words. This takes a lot of time. If you have given a period of time to write a essay then difficulty is so high. We have a lots of ideas. So this is for me a difficult task. If you want to master in writing essays then you have to practice writing essays and reading essays. Practice is a thing that you can master in anything.

it is very hard to supply all of the instructions writing essays.

In my opinion, with front 12 Arial and 14 subheading are little bit small, and it makes difficult to read. If we want to clear, I suggest that we use front 14 and bolder for subheading.

In my opinion the most difficult part of writing an essay is that I don't know how to write a formal sentences or the way of essay writing,cause it should be inspire the boss or teacher by best words

In my opinion the first thing that would makes writing essays difficult is the level of one's English, because we could still have ideas but we are not able to express them. And this is due to lack of vocabulary.

Writing an essay with a word limit is a difficult situation. Because sometimes you have ideas' in abundance and that is hard to decide on paper what to mention and what to not, on the other hand sometimes we lack the ideas to fulfill the word limit.

One of the most weakness is writing an essay, when some asking me for write some essay, that's a very hard for me and I get a fear of the writing any essay due to my mistakes which I do them in the grammar so I'm doing my best to improve my skills in the writing, though.

Essay writing is difficult task but for me difficult thing is not exist in the world. I had participate many essay competition and i like write essay.

The topic is the most difficult for me and how to write the essay headline. I am also difficult with vocab and grammar. But we should do the assignment before the deadline is more importance than other. I find many books for the topic I choose in the library and I read more about the topic I choose. And then I write down sentence and choose the most I like. In this way, I write the essay or assignment.

it is difficult for me describe about things.