Essay Guideline

Every student knows how it is difficult, almost impossible to write and organize the first writing assignment. It is more difficult, if the student writes it alone for the first time. Lack of experience, lack of time, and undoubtedly lack of knowledge on the process of the completion of the essay-contribute to this uncertainty. How it can be overcome?! Certainly, the more students knew about the process of the writing of the essay, the less they would fear it.

Let us explain some of the differences and similarities between several types of the essays. For most of us, even for those, who have already graduated from the Universities, any writing assignment means something formal, something academic that should correspond to some universal standards. In most of the times that is true. A tutor would like you to produce well written and well organized paper and to evaluate your ability to research thoroughly and write according to some rules.

However, there is a type of an essay where all these requirements may be jettisoned. This is an informal essay. Here, in this type of writing assignment you are able to reveal your personality by talking directly with your reader intimately and frequently humorously. Nevertheless, you should have a good plan of the essay; however-informal style is the most important point. There is not any universal rule on how this essay should be completed, try to imagine the conversation between you and your friend, where you will be able to discuss the topic or event you care for or some person that has impressed you. Your opinion, in form of monologue, but informal even with humor should be clearly stated.

But certainly, not all types of the essays can be completed this way. Informal style is certainly an exception from the rule. In many types of the essays you have to stick to some definite structures and even some rigid rules. Let us examine compare/contrast essay. It is undoubtedly, one of the most difficult types of the essay, yet it is one of the most important and useful ones. It allows you to develop compare and contrast skills, to improve your ability to see and evaluate similarities and differences in objects, things, personalities and events.

Several useful tips for this type of an essay:

1) First, you should evaluate similarities, then you must find an evaluate differences.

2) If you compare some facts, evaluate one fact at a time; do not try to jumble them together.

3) Do not try to compare and contrast incomparable features (for example the taste of the lemon and the toughness of the ball’s cover.)

Many students also experience some difficulties in the writing of the literature essay better.
It is not possible to provide the reader with universal guide to this type of an essay. However, every literature essay comprises some indispensable elements:

1) It should be succinct and must be written in lucid and understandable style.

2) You should develop well-organized plan of your essay.

3) Try to be more argumentative and more creative. Your tutor would like to see and evaluate your ability to analyze and understand the meaning of the text your have read.

Certainly it is not possible to reveal al elements of several types of the essays that the students are assigned with. You need to study guides and instructions more thoroughly to understand the requirements and purposes of your essay better.

Jerry Howells is an expert on educational systems of OECD countries. His research has been on the following topics: independence of educational institutions, the performance of students in Europe, the profitability of private education in the UK. Currently he is serving as a consultant for http://www.bestessaytips.com - an online resource for writing tips covering specifics of informal essay writing, literature essay writing and others.

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Essays that are plagiarized frustrate teachers

College life: attending classes, taking tests, and writing essays. The dark side to education is cheating. What’s wrong with cheating from a university’s point of view? They get paid, what do they care what students do with their educations? If they care about students getting real educations, then copying essays and cheating on tests prevents students from really getting educated. Even if they don’t really care about the students, they care about their reputation to provide educations. A cheating atmosphere where plagiarized essays are accepted by educators will cheapen their reputation.

It’s a myth that distance learning education perpetuates plagiarizing

Educators use an arsenal of online tools to help them identify students who are not writing their own essays but turning in plagiarized essays. Web sites exist that educators can use to submit essays to check them for plagiarized passages. One limitation with these sites is that they don’t always distinguish between a properly cited passage or a sentence that was passed off as original.

Argumentative Essay Topics online waiting for you

Argumentative essay topics will either make or break your grade as far as essay writing goes. Why? Because how strong a topic you pick pre-determines the content that you can use to make your point. You will find writing essays a huge part of your coursework while you work on your education. Argumentative essays demonstrate your knowledge of a topic, your ability to apply critical thinking, and your ability to organize and write effectively.

Education professionals assign plenty of essays for college credit

Here are some ways that you can find topics for your argumentative essays fast online:

Read the news headlines. Go to any online news site and you will be bombarded with newsworthy topics in law, health, computers, etc. Pick one and get going.

Look at professional debate websites. By this I don’t mean presidential debates, I’m talking about “debate club” debates. They usually have a number of really good topics for argumentative essays.

Type in “argumentative essays” in a search engine. You should come up with results that can give you some ideas for your own essay.

Basically any topic that gets a reaction out of people would probably work for you. Hot topics for argumentative essays are hot because they pose ethical dilemmas to the people who are divided on where they stand. Make sure you apply critical thinking to your position so that you don’t just end up producing recycled dribble in your essay.

Contrary to popular belief, distance learning does not have a higher percentage of plagiarized essays. While the anonymity and distance makes it easier to have a culture of cheating, the statistics show otherwise. Educators speculate that the reason why students in distance learning programs write their own essay is because students who are using distance learning programs are more mature, responsible, and hard working (since most of them are adults working full time) than the wider pool of college students

Persuasive Essay Topics in 10 minutes

Coming up with persuasive essay topics that work for you can be difficult. For many students working on their education, online programs require much writing of them.

Education professionals expect well written essays

To cut down on your writing time, it’s best to follow the following plan:

1. Work out at a high level what the outline will be like. At this point, it will be more like a format than an outline since you may not have a topic yet.

2. Brainstorm topics.

3. For the top topics, work out rough outlines to see how much you either know already or can write about readily.

4. Outline your persuasive style essay.

5. Write your essay.

6. Read it when you’re finished to make sure it’s as persuasive as it can be. You might see sections that can use stronger language to convince the reader of your stance.

To ensure your essay writing doesn’t stall out after you pick it, pick an persuasive topic that you either know a lot about or you can easily find information about it. To be persuasive, you’ll need to present a few facts upon which you’ll build your argument.

That’s why for topics that you aren’t really strong on, it makes sense to pick topics that are being covered in magazines or newspapers. Newsworthy topics are of interest to other people right now. That makes it more likely that you’ll be able to find information on that topic more easily than something that is obscurely followed.

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The application essay is the most crucial piece of writing the student will submit to the colleges, and, if not done impressively, it will also be their last. In most cases, it is the college’s first actual exposure to the student, and first impressions have a habit of lasting. A memorable essay contains all the student’s Kodak moments interlaced with some less than blissful adventures to create the necessary drama in the writing.

Students must begin by choosing the right topic, meaning the right topic for them, and one that will be well received by the admissions committees. The subject matter chosen and its degree of difficulty say volumes to the school about the character of the author. As the quality of the essay is dependent on the student’s ability to respond to the subject matter, making the correct choice is absolutely essential.

Students should select a most thought-provoking and stimulating subject to write about, and it helps greatly to view the task as a “we dare you to compete for the privilege of attending our school” challenge from the college. In other words, if there’s a literary masterpiece inside the student crying out to be written and read, this would be a good time to unleash it!

Students writing about their favorite anything should be passionate about it. It’s not enough just to say you love something or someone. It must be explained why in no uncertain terms. If writing about how a particular relative was admired by the student above all others, then how that person influenced the student’s life, how the student apprenticed that person or fashioned their lives in their light should be factored in.

Students often write about themselves as the subject matter is well known to them and requires no research. However, as this is certainly not the road less traveled, a necessary and serious effort is sorely needed to make the journey stand out amongst all the other students doing the same. Be it overcoming adversity or how the past summer was spent, the writing should be uniquely appealing to the reader and not the same old, same old. However, the essay should not be overwritten.

One of my students wrote about being molested when she was eight years old. She wisely chose not to go into the horror in her accounting of it, but rather focused on how she overcame being victimized. The essay was most compelling and was well received. She is now pursuing a medical career at a very prestigious West Coast university.

Students should avoid writing too vividly about any traumatizing experience. The essay can be gripping but not horrifying. Remember, the object here is to write an essay that captures the reader’s imagination and begs to be read in its entirety. Highly controversial subjects such as abortion are best avoided.

One of my honor students wrote a “Pro Life” essay and expressed her views with such intensity that reading it left me with the impression that she might be viewed as a danger to others with strong “pro choice” convictions! At first, when I advised her to rewrite it, she flat out refused. I explained that she was losing site of her goal - to be accepted to the college and not to win points on her take of the anti-abortion issue. She finally realized the wisdom of my words when I reminded her that after she was accepted, she could protest and exercise her freedom of speech in any way she chose, but first, she had to get into the school.

Students must keep their eye on the prize and never lose sight of the main objective - getting an admission ticket!

My all-time favorite essay question is the University of Pennsylvania’s, “You’ve just written your 300 page autobiography. Tell us what’s on page 217?” I advise students who choose this essay to go back in time five or six years (about a third of their life), recall where they were and what they were doing in that time period, and then begin writing about it.

A most effective and creative approach is to begin the page in the middle of a sentence, preferably ending the thought by leaving the reader in a quandary, i.e. “because that’s the way it was arranged.” Remember that this is page 217 from your autobiography. Open any autobiography, or any book for that matter, to page 217. It probably won’t start with a fresh sentence or a new paragraph. It is also important to leave the reader hanging at the end of the page, i.e. “As he ran into the street, the car continued to”

I often critique essays for students I counsel, but never write the essay for them. I cannot advise strongly enough against employing the services of a professional essay service or writer! Not only is this first degree cheating, but the risk/reward ratio isn’t worth it. The admissions committees and the application readers are neither stupid nor na

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