A seven-step toolkit to help you produce winning essay and assignments, build your confidence and improve your grades.

Chapter 1: Using the Literature
Chapter 2: Planning Your Essay
Chapter 3: Criticality: Rational Reflection
Chapter 4: Criticality: Critical Thinking
Criticality: Analytic Thinking
Chapter 5: Originality
Chapter 6: Presentation and Academic Conventions
Chapter 7: Other Forms of Assignment
Chapter 8: Oral Assignments: Lectures and Short Talks

Mal Leicester is Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham. Mal has taught English in schools, Liberal Studies in Further Education, and Philosophy of Education and Adult Education in universities. She has also been a local authority advisor for Multicultural Education and Director of an antiracist community organisation. Before her retirement, Mal was professor of adult teaching and learning at the University of Nottingham. Since her retirement Mal has written a memoir of her beloved daughter's remarkable life and death-Jane's Journey: a Medical Story of Survival and Hope.