📓 How to Write Incredible Academic Essays: A Practical Guide

✨ Learn how to write essays from the perspective of a former top law student and lecturer and marker 👩🏼‍🎓👩‍🏫

After nearly a decade of studying at university and being a top student in two degrees (and a lecturer), I've developed incredible, unique and effective methods for writing A+ academic essays. 🏆

In law school, almost every grade I received for essays was an A+. As a lecturer, I taught an entire course on how to write academic essays. 📄

In this guide, I’ll teach you everything I know. I share tips from my experience as both a top student and as a former lecturer and marker. I walk you through my ingenious methods that took me literally years of trial and error to come up with. 🙌

This guide is for anyone who needs to write essays. Whether you’re in high school, at university, or taking a course, this guide is for you! 🤙🏼

The guide is split into four parts: 4️⃣

1️⃣ Part 1: Getting Started 😌

2️⃣ Part 2: Research and Referencing 👩‍💻

3️⃣ Part 3: Thesis Statements and Structure 🪜

4️⃣ Part 4: Writing and Editing 📝

📓 What's included?

This guide is 13-pages of epic information. It contains:

• Little things you can do to improve your grades drastically; 👩‍🏫
• A diagram that simply explains my ingenious method for structuring essays; 📊
• My personal method for taking notes on readings; ✨
• My hacks for overcoming procrastination; 🏃🏼‍♀️
• My tips on editing effectively; ✍🏼 and
• Heaps more!

What else is covered? 🔍

• Getting your mindset right;
• Folders and which software to use;
• Tips on selecting the right readings;
• My ingenious two-part note-taking system;
• Referencing tips (for law and non-law students);
• How many references you need;
• What a thesis statement is;
• How thesis statements are on a spectrum;
• Using Chat GPT ethically;
• Structuring the essay as a whole;
• Structure introductions; body paragraphs and conclusions;
• Writing techniques;
• Editing tips; and
• Of course, lots more 😎

🙌 Why it's awesome

The guide is super simple and easy-to-read. It's colour-coded and structured in my unique style, making the information easy to digest.

Never again feel confused on how to start an essay. Feel confident knowing how to take notes, come up with a thesis statement, structure your essay and write and edit an incredible essay, every time.

By buying this guide, you're not just paying for information, but also peace of mind and confidence when approaching essay-based exams and assignments, which is invaluable. 😌

This guide is literally years in the making. I have already helped hundreds of students write better essays and I can't wait to help you too! 🥳

🏆 My awards and prizes at Law School

• Law School prize for the best Part I (first year) student (2018)
• Lexis Nexis Prize for the best Part II (second year) student (2019)
• The Anderson Creagh Lai Ltd Prize for best student in Personal Property Law (2018)
• Deans Prize: Top Student in Legal System (2018)
• Top Student in Company Law (2019)
• Top Student in Trusts (2019)
• Top student in Constitutional Law (2019)
• Top student in Torts Law (2019)
• Chapman Tripp Prize for joint Top Student in Contract and Torts Law (2019)
• Joint Top Student in Real Property Law (2019)
• A+ average in every paper in Year 2
• AUT undergraduate law scholarship (2019)
• Top student in ACC Law (2020)
• SBM Legal Prize for Employment Law (2020)
• The Anton Botica Memorial Prize for Employment Law (2020)
• LexisNexis Prize in Public Law (2020)
• The New Zealand Insurance Law Association Prize (2020)
• Graduate speaker - Winter Business, Economics and Law Graduation (2021)
• Top Student in Private Remedies (2022)
• Student with the overall best record for the Law Degree at AUT (2022)

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🗓 This guide was created in 2024.

👩🏼‍💼 This guide is not intended to be legal advice. I (Julie Schmidt and Julie Schmidt Law) accept no responsibility for any action taken in reliance on this guide. (This includes me taking no responsibility for grades received in reliance on information provided in this guide).

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