Last updated: July 2019 “You have to make choices even when there is nothing to choose from.”― Péter Zilahy And you have to find a perfect hook for your essay even when you don’t know what to write. Strategies for writing an essay hook: Use literary quotes. Write a quote from a famous person. Surprise…
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How to Write a Rhetorical Précis Your Professor Will Never Forget
Last updated: November 2019 A rhetorical précis is a type of academic writing where you summarize another piece of text, its main ideas and arguments, in particular, to provide insight into its author’s thesis. So, it happened again. Your teacher assigned yet another paper to you. It sounds something like “write a précis, in 800-1000…
How to Write a Critical Essay [Ultimate Guide]
A critical essay is a type of academic writing where the author analyzes and evaluates a text. For an essay to become critical, you need to claim a text’s particular ideas and then support that claim with evidence. How to write a critical essay: Examine a source: read it carefully and critically. Organize your thoughts:…
How to Start a College Essay Like a Boss
Here’s how to start an essay: Write a catchy hook. Provide some context and background on your topic. State a thesis, establishing your purpose and position on the topic. Overview the main points you’ll cover in the essay. Check and revise if necessary. In this article, we’re going to tell you how to start a…
How to Write a Strong Conclusion for Your Essay
Last updated: November 2019 How to conclude an essay: Restate the thesis by making the same point with other words (paraphrase). Review your supporting ideas. For that, summarize all arguments by paraphrasing how you proved the thesis. Connect back to the essay hook and relate your closing statement to the opening one. Combine all the…
The Ultimate Guide to Personal Essay Writing
A personal essay is a short writing work where the author describes a significant event from his life experience and tells about a lesson he learned from it. In academia, a personal essay is known as a “college essay” or a “college admission essay.” Personal essay is not about college admission only: Twain, Hemingway, Fitzgerald,…
Billy Milligan Case: What Can Writers Take from It?
Last updated: July 2020 Billy Milligan was a man known in the 1970s for living with multiple personality disorder. He claimed to have 24 different people in his head. The world has found out about Billy in the 1980s, after the book by Daniel Keyes, The Minds of Billy Milligan, came out. From a college student…
How to Write Better: A Redditor’s Speaking
Last updated: December 2020 A Redditor is a fan and active user of Reddit.com, who contributes news, reviews, and opinions to the platform and participates in discussions there. A writer can’t exist in a vacuum. No matter what content we create – books, web articles, essays, poetry, etc. – we need advice from colleagues on…
Want to Write Better? Read More, and That’s Why [Infographic]
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R. Martin The “read more” concept is back in style. Yes, again. The great minds have been pointing at books’ positive influence for a long time. And now, we cite their words and agree with that…
The Ultimate List of Linking Words for Your Essay
Linking words are lexical items (words and phrases) we use to connect ideas in writing and get a reader to our next sentence or paragraph. Let’s face it: You can’t write an essay (or any other writing piece) without linking words. Also known as connecting words or transition words, they serve to make your writing…