Guide to Essay Writing

with assistance from other members of the

Department of Art History and Theory
University of Sydney
January 1998

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.0 Introduction

• 1.1 General comments
• 1.2 Writing a preliminary draft or drafts
• 1.3 Re-writing the draft
• 1.4 Visual material
• 1.5 Quotations

2.0 General format

• 2.1 Format
• 2.2 Form and expression
• 2.3 Titles
• 2.4 Quotations
• 2.5 Non-sexist language
• 2.6 'Apparatus' - footnotes or endnotes, bibliography list of illustrations and appendices

3.0 Footnotes

• 3.1 Footnotes, notes or endnotes
• 3.2 Reference to footnotes/ notes
• 3.3 Location of footnotes/ notes
• 3.4 form of footnotes/ notes. First reference
• 3.5 Form of footnotes/ notes subsequent references (incl. Latin abbreviations)
• 3.6 Footnotes/notes conclusion

4.0 Bibliography

• 4.1 Bibliography
• 4.2 Useful Guides to special problems
• 4.3 Abbreviations
• 4.4 References to works of art
• 4.5 List of illustrations and captions