Showing posts with label Essay Writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Essay Writing. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

6 tips for writing a winning essay

Everybody wants to be a winner. Whether it is a college or a university student, success is always the most important things in their minds. For every college student though, college life is marked by a lot of writing and most of these make every student scared. However, there is no way that one can escape from such responsibilities as they are a part of the requirements for the assessment for every college student. It will be hard to graduate without having to write these papers and therefore you must know how to do it. It is important for every college student to understand some helpful tips that will be helpful for them to write a winning essay that will leave them with high grades at the end of the course. Below are some of the tips that could help you do this.

  • First, you should understand the rules and make sure that you have followed them closely. Once you have been given the paper or the assignment, read the instructions fully and understand what you are supposed to write about as well as the word count that you are expected to adhere to. Essay writing is very tricky such that if a student exceeds the word count given, then they are disqualified. Keep the rules.
  • Plan your time so as to be able to complete the assignment within the stipulated time. This is always a problem for many students as the lack proper time management skills. But you will need to be prepared well enough so as to complete the assignment within the given time. Divide you time and know how much of the same you need to write the 3 parts of the assay.
  • Think about different ideas and try to come up with a number of ideas to write an interesting essay.
  • Read essays from previous writer and especially those that have been successful. This will help you come up with helpful ideas on how to do your writing.
  • Write a good introduction for your essay. This is the winning part for any essay as the readers’ attention is always captured by the first paragraph. Your first sentence determines the effectiveness of your essay if you are supposed to write a short one.
  • Avoid spelling, grammatical errors in your writing. Winning essays can only d so if they are perfect.



Thursday, October 16, 2008

Easy Essay Writing Tips

Essay WritingESSAY writing tips thrive not only in books but also over the Internet.

Sadly, many students take for granted all these copious gifts: They deem writing essays as “problematical,” period.

But an essay is the easiest kind of literary work to write. Because apart from being short, it has a format or structure that is so easy to follow, namely: the introduction, which begins with a sentence that should rouse the interest of readers; the body, where the ideas in the first part are expanded; and the conclusion, which summarizes the gist or main thought.

Here are three hints students have to keep in mind when tasked to write essays by their teachers:

Fix thoughts first. Essay writers not only experience partial loss of ability to go on writing—or the so-called writer’s block—they also go through “writer’s excitement”—their minds overflow with concepts. Hence, their ideas, when written, become distorted. They should write on a piece of paper each and every idea that comes out of their mind first then sieve the useful from the futile ones prior to writing the first draft. Students must have a general idea of their work so they will know where they are really heading to.

Be free from eyesores. These eye irritants include typographical and grammatical errors. Writing blunders make essays less credible. Students have no reason to commit lots of typos in their works anymore, what with the presence of spelling and grammar checkers in computer programs that make writing tasks easier done than said. On the other hand, essay writing wouldn’t be a problem if students have a full grasp of sentence structures as well as singularity and plurality of nouns—but that is if they listened to their teachers attentively from the time when they attended school and have read a lot of books since time immemorial. Grammar expertise cannot be acquired overnight: It’s a continual process that should have started at a tender age.

Keep in mind that more is valuable. Although essays need to be kept short but sweet, long essays—with about four to five sentences in every paragraph—are also within acceptable limits, as long as they give further details and enlighten readers about a particular topic.

Essay writing may be a daunting activity, but students have nothing to lose if they master this skill. Believe it or not, but those who write well eventually become successful in their chosen careers. Getting accustomed to writing essays is one and the same with opting for a brighter future!