When you write academic texts, there are a lot of things you need to keep in mind. For example, what separates a scholarly text from other texts? How do you find the information you need? And how do you know when you have enough information to produce a work of your own? You have to know how to formulate your own ideas cohesively, how to write following a certain academic structure, and understand why referencing properly is such an important procedure. You also need to understand how and when the use of AI technology is appropriate and when it's not. These are the skills that we refer to as academic information literacy.

Keep in mind that every aspect of essay writing is a process. You will have to redo your searches, rewrite sentences, and rethink the structure of your text – many times over. And that is exactly how it's supposed to be. All that hard work is what leads to a text that you can be proud of!

Hang in there!

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Image generated by Microsoft Copilot from the prompt "cute cat hanging from a branch".