Holly Mercer

Economics Coursework and Feedback Specialist

Education: BSc Economics, PGDip in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (University of Sheffield)

Experience: 2 years, 250 projects completed

Most of the students who end up with Holly are not completely lost – they usually have a draft, some notes, or a half-finished essay that isn’t quite working. She takes the time to read through your brief, your draft and any comments your tutor has already given you. Then she quietly rebuilds the assignment so the structure, the argument and the referencing line up with what your university is asking for.

Holly is especially strong on mixed coursework where micro and macro blur together – for example, pieces that ask you to talk about a real company, bring in market structure, and then link it to wider macro conditions like inflation or interest rates. She breaks these tasks into clear, labelled sections so the marker doesn’t have to guess what part of the question you’re answering.

Her writing style is calm and steady. She avoids long, fancy sentences and keeps the language at the level of a UK student who pays attention in lectures but doesn’t speak like a textbook. She knows where to put diagrams, when to bring in data from sources like the ONS, and how much theory is “enough” for the word count. Students often say that after reading one of Holly’s assignments, they finally understand how their course expects them to write in future

Specialized Subjects: First and second-year economics, mixed micro/macro coursework, marking grid alignment, feedback-based rewrites