Finding a good topic is the first all-important step in the essay writing process. If you get this part wrong, then everything else you do after that will be following down the wrong trail.
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Things To Avoid When Coming Up With Essay Topics
Thursday, December 29th, 2011Four Types Of Wordiness
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011Wordiness is a serious affliction to any piece of writing, as it makes erstwhile interesting topics sound impossible to appreciate. Every word you write should pull its own weight. Words that don’t is excess weight that you should shed to keep the writing fit and trim.
College Essay Troubles: Can’t Find Source Information
Monday, December 26th, 2011If you did your research right, you will have written down all pertinent source information next to each item. For published sources, these will be the title, author and publishing information for the book or article. For videos, you probably want the title, the director and the speaker (if there is one). The point is to be vigilant when you put together your research notes. Otherwise, you’ll end up with information you can’t properly attribute when writing your paper.
College Essay Troubles: Contradictory Information
Monday, December 26th, 2011You’ve come up with a strong and compelling thesis statement. You’ve done the research and started work on your paper. Halfway through, you get an email from the library that this one book you’ve been waiting to borrow finally turned up. You debated whether to even bother, before deciding that it’s probably a good idea to check.
