Bio NatSci - Essays

Hello! You will get a set of problems for Chemistry and your Maths subject every week and either an essay a week or an essay every other week (depends on the supervisor you have) for each of the 2 Biological subjects. So anything up to 2 problem sheets (which probably took me at least 5 hours each) and 2 essays a week (Requiring 8 hours on each maybe? depends on how much reading you do for them). So lots and lots of work!

More explanation than argument.

The essays, NatScis find, aren't really essays as such. Basically, they ask you to explain what a particular thing is- can't give any details, as I don't know anything about science at this level!- for which you have to read the relevant bits of the textbook, and copy from the lecture notes and so on.

More explanation than argument.

I'm not saying that they're easy or anything, just that they're a different type to an Arts-type "analyse then evaluate then argue" kind of essay.

...shattering my illusions of lazy days on the backs...

In the first year perhaps....beyond that...not really.....Us third years have to read piles of cutting-edge scientific papers, see what different peoples theories are on the matter and evaluate them, show how an issue has developed through time etc.... As you say, you 'don't know anything about science at this level'- our essays are certainly not something you could write from your lecture notes.

Are you at John's Tiggerishon?

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