1 You and university writing Why a book on university writing Working with others You as a writer Different types of writing Talking for writing Getting started keeping going and dealing with writing blocks Getting help A note on word processing A tour through the rest of the book I never understand what they want Writing here seems completely different to anything Ive done before The thought of writing assignments just makes me panic This book is about writing university assignments at degree level Some parts will also be relevant to students taking postgraduate courses who are new to an area of study One of the main reasons why we decided to write this book was that we wanted to help students find ways of putting writing at the centre of their learning We believe that writing for your studies and learning for your studies are so integrally related that they cannot be separated from each other Obviously an important aim for you as a student is that you complete your written assignments on time and get good grades but writing essays and other assignments is about more than that it is fundamentally about learning As you learn to write in a particular way for a particular subject you are learning how to make sense of that subject Academic disciplines have their own ways of organizing knowledge and the ways in which people in different subject areas write about their subjects are actually part of the subject itself and1 You and university writing Why a book on university writing Working with others You as a writer Different types of writing Talking for writing Getting started keeping going and dealing with writing blocks Getting help A note on word processing A tour through the rest of the book I never ...understand what they want Writing here seems completely different to anything Ive done before The thought of writing assignments just makes me panic This book is about writing university assignments at degree level Some parts will also be relevant to students taking postgraduate courses who are new to an area of study One of the main reasons why we decided to write this book was that we wanted to help students find ways of putting writing at the centre of their learning We believe that writing for your studies and learning for your studies are so integrally related that they cannot be separated from each other Obviously an important aim for you as a student is that you complete your written assignments on time and get good grades but writing essays and other assignments is about more than that it is fundamentally about learning As you learn to write in a particular way for a particular subject you are learning how to make sense of that subject Academic disciplines have their own ways of organizing knowledge and the ways in which people in different subject areas write about their subjects are actually part of the subject itself and