A crib sheet and handout for tutors to help first year undergraduates understand what is required of them for essays. This resource will need to be adapted for individual institutions with different criteria for layout of references etc.

This is the seventh unit of a series forming a VLE course for first-year students on 'Academic Research'. In this unit students are helped to understand the basic structure of an essay, how to construct an introduction and conclusion and advanced use of paragraphing.

Bibliography for essay: Do any of the sources that we have examined in this course enable us to delineate a general picture of what constituted 'superstition' in the early-modern period? Prepared for the special subject module: Ghosts, Witches and Portents in Early Modern Europe.

A brief introduction to the course, number of teaching hours, and course assignments along with a brief discussion of the historiography, seminar programme and list of essay questions. These materials were prepared for the special subject module: Ghosts, Witches and Portents in Early Modern Europe.