Learning Lab

Essay writing overview

This short video gives you an overview of how an essay is structured. It looks briefly at what to include in the introduction, the body and the conclusion and shows some writing models of each part.

Writing an essay

This resource takes you through the process of writing an essay from analysing the task, to planning and researching, writing and reviewing.

Art History and Theory Essay

This resource outlines the process of writing an Art History and Theory essay. It highlights the key features of planning, structuring and writing an essay using the Futurism movement as a model. It demonstrates how to write cohesively, and how to effectively integrate visual and textual references.

Critical Essay: Landscape Architecture

This resource provides a guide for writing a critical essay in landscape architecture. It models how key words, from the abstract and your research, are used to express the concepts or themes that run through the framework. These themes allow you to structure your essay, paragraphs, and flow of discussion.

Critical Essay: Communication Design

This resource provides a guide for structuring and writing a critical essay in communication design. It will show you how to critically discuss key historical, technological and theoretical developments in communication design, and their relationships to contemporary communication design in the Design, Commerce and Culture course.

Assignment slammer

This short tutorial walks you through the process of preparing, planning and writing an assignment with quick links to the resources you can use at each stage.