Another useful exercise is to ask someone else to read the essay through.

 A person
proofreading the essay for the first time will have a different perspective from your own
and will therefore be better placed to point out any incoherence, lack of structure,
grammatical errors, etc.

Ideally find somebody to proofread who has a good grasp of spelling and grammar and
at least a casual interest in your subject area.

One or two edits should be sufficient. It is best not to become involved in an

unproductive multiplicity of drafts. The remedy is to analyse the question again and
write another, simple, plan based on how to organise the material you are not happy
with in the draft of your essay. Rewrite the essay according to that revised plan and
resist the tendency to panic in the middle, tear it up and start all over again. It is
important to get to the end and then revise again. Otherwise you will have a perfect
opening couple of paragraphs and potentially the rest of the essay in disarray.

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