What Is a Good Turnitin Score? Similarity Explained Honestly
Almost every UK student has asked it, usually at 1 a.m. before a deadline: “My Turnitin score is 24% — am I in trouble?” The honest answer is:…
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Tips, guides and insights for UK university students.
How to Ask for an Assignment Extension (Email Template Included)
Illness, a family emergency, a placement that swallowed your week — sometimes an assignment deadline becomes impossible for reasons that have nothing to do with effort. UK universities…
Read MoreHow to Write a Literature Review: A Step-by-Step Guide
The literature review is the chapter students find hardest to start and easiest to get wrong. It is also, in most dissertations and many long assignments, the chapter…
Read MoreHow to Write a Dissertation Proposal (With Structure & Examples)
A dissertation proposal is the document that turns a vague topic idea into an approved, realistic research plan. Most UK universities require one before you are allowed to…
Read MoreHow to Write an Essay Introduction (With Examples)
Your introduction is the most heavily weighted 10% of your essay. It is the only part your marker is guaranteed to read with full attention, and it is…
Read MoreOSCOLA Referencing Guide for Law Students
If you study law at a UK university, your referencing system is almost certainly OSCOLA — the Oxford University Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities, published by…
Read MoreGibbs Reflective Cycle: A Worked Example for Nursing Students
Sooner or later in a UK nursing degree, you will be asked to “reflect on a significant incident from practice using Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle.” And sooner or later,…
Read MoreDissertation Structure: A UK Student’s Chapter-by-Chapter Guide
A dissertation looks enormous from the outside — 10,000 or 15,000 words, months of work, a bound volume at the end of it. From the inside, though, it…
Read MoreHarvard Referencing Guide for UK Students (Cite Them Right)
Harvard referencing is the style most UK university students meet first — and the one that quietly costs them marks every single term. The good news is that…
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