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Archive for April, 2010
April 20th, 2010
3000 word essays must be well organized
When writing essays, students don’t get to choose the extension of their paper. It is up to the teacher to decide the essay word count. And many times, as students we may need to deal with the challenge of writing a really long one, such as a 3000 word essay. Even if at first the number of required words or pages frighten you, don’t freak out. Actually, sometimes the difficult thing is writing a significant short essay. In fact, such long essays allow you more freedom and extended quotations: and that means writing many words without actually having to think them!
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April 19th, 2010
Some tips on where to look for essay advice
Are you working on an essay and you feel totally lost? Seems you could use some valuable essay advice. But, who shall you ask for help? Is your teacher going to guide you when you are already supposed to be working on the task? Probably not. But luckily, there are others who could guide you and give you some valuable tips on how to write a better essay. For example…
Older students
Students who have already taken your class can be really helpful providing some essay advice –especially if they had your same teacher back then-. Ask them how they marked the essay so you know from beforehand what to take into account: is your teacher especially focused on grammar? Or does he like a lot of quotes in the essay?
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April 18th, 2010
Free online essays can be taken only as examples
After a long experience as a student, you should probably know already the risks of downloading a free online essay. After all, an essay you got for free may end up costing you a lot. It is true that today, getting an essay on any topic is as easy as turning on your computer. With any search engine you can find all kinds of free essays waiting for you to download them. But it is not as simple as it seems…
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April 17th, 2010
An essay sentence should be a reflection of the essay itself
Sentences are the first language structure with a full meaning attached. While words can be ambiguous, sentences are already giving the reader or the listener some valuable information. When you are writing your essay, you should consider all the essay sentences as a reflection of the essay itself: they must be concise, coherent and meaningful.
If you are not sure where to begin with, pay attention to the following tips which you may find useful when working on an essay.
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April 16th, 2010
Writing funny essays is not so simple
When we imagine the teacher or the examiner laughing at our essays, it is not a nice picture. Unless, of course, that from the start we have decided to write a funny essay, intended specifically to be as hilarious as possible. Sounds easy, right? Wrong! Actually, writing funny essays is quite a challenge. It is not as simple as it sound being funny on paper, since most of the sense of humor is transmitted through our voice tone and not words.
But if you still want to prove yourself worthy of the task of entertaining your readers, here are some tips on how to write this kind of essay.
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April 15th, 2010
A love essay can include a personal appreciation
This is one of the most popular essay topics among school students. Love essays have the advantage that every student has experienced such a wonderful and amazing feeling (although sometimes can be quite painful and frustrating). So don’t complain if your teacher requests you to write an essay on this topic, because you could do much worse! A love essay can be quite interesting to write, although you should focus on “serious” topics and not only describe how wonderful, cute and lovely is your current sweetheart.
Here is some advice for writing a great essay on the topic of love and feelings in general.
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April 14th, 2010
Writing advice for helping you get better
Why do so many students find essays and other written assignments so difficult? Well, it is because writing properly is quite a challenge. You may probably think that you will never get good at it, but that is not true! We know it’s not easy, but you can get better with some writing advice. So keep on reading.
Why is it so difficult to write well?
Some linguistics agree that oral language is something innate in human beings. In other words, it is in our species the necessity to communicate by speaking. On the contrary, writing is not something biological but cultural, and that is why it is an ability that has to be learned and practiced. No one is born knowing how to talk, but that acquiring process takes less than three years and children manage to do it with little or no help at all from their parents. In some cultures, adults don’t speak directly to their children, but they acquire their native language sooner or later.
Instead, nobody can learn to read and write without a teacher there to guide them in the learning process. Writing is something that human beings invented in some point of their history. Not every human culture is literate and many people live a long life without ever learning to write their own names. Since writing is not something that is in our nature but a cultural ability, it is natural that so many people find it difficult and challenging. After all, no one ever asks for “speaking advice”, but so many happen to find “writing advice” something useful…
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April 13th, 2010
Film essays should be fun and easy to read
This is a very popular topic for school essays nowadays. A film essay has the advantage that every student enjoys watching movies, even when most of them don’t enjoy writing so much… So don’t freak out if a teacher asks you to write an essay on this topic, because you could do much worse! Film essays are funny to write and read, although you should focus on “serious” topics and not only repeat the best lines on the film you are analyzing.
Here is some advice for writing a great essay on the topic of films and cinema in general.
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April 12th, 2010
Long essays require a proper organization
When it is up to essays, most of the times students don’t get to choose the extension of their works. It is up to the teacher to decide the essay word count. And many times, as students we may need to deal with the challenge of writing a really long essay. Even if at first the number of required words or pages frighten you, don’t panic. Actually, sometimes the real challenge is writing a significant short essay. In fact, long essays allow you more freedom and extended quotations: you may write many words without actually having to think them!
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April 11th, 2010
How to say a lot with short 1000 words essays
It sounds like a lot, since we tend to associate the number one thousand with a big amount. But actually, a 1000 words essay is something quite short if you think about it. If you are typing it on Word, with a Times New Roman 12 font, it will only take a couple of pages. In fact, the real challenge is using that amount of words to say something truly significant and with some kind of academic value.
At first, one tends to believe that short essays are easier to prepare than long ones, when in fact the opposite is true. When the student is only allowed to write a certain number of words, they may find themselves restricted and bounded. What can you do in order to write the best possible essay with no more than 1000 words? And why is it fundamental to constrain yourself to that precise extension after all?
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