We cannot mark your essay if we cannot read it . An essay in illegible handwriting may be returned to a student with the request that it be re-presented in a legible form. However, if you are not confident in your ability to write essays, or if you are returning to study after a long period of time, there are some hints that you might find useful. An essay which is just an unstructured jumble of points will not do well, and is quite likely to fail. An essay must have an ordered or logical structure.
Some students have difficulty in putting together an essay with such a structure.
Not all parts of the reading will always be equally relevant. Pay careful attention to the bits that are especially relevant. If you take detailed notes of everything you have read, you might end up with an unmanageable mass of information. Once you feel you know how you would explain your answer, write down an outline of how you would go about explaining it. Your outline should suggest a logical order in which to place the relevant bits of information in your notes.