Lessons from Essay Season
The first month of January 2021 is over, and so is the mid-winter essay season, which finished when I submitted my last essay at 04:24am last Thursday. Before I am swept under the wave of this semester's academic teaching, I thought it would be helpful to construct a brief summary of the essays I have just completed, followed by the lessons I learnt whilst writing them. I had one essay for each of the three modules that I took last semester, which were as follows: 1) "To what extent did early modern English men and women 'rest in peace?'" (Module: Death, Dying and the Dead in Early Modern England) There was a strong selection of varied and fascinating essay titles for this one, so I found it difficult to choose. Although this question initially seemed too broad, I was fond of the scope this left to research different channels and place emphasis on comparative analyses. As it turns out this was entirely the right decision, because I was able to compare detailed ar...
