Essay Writing Tips

Let’s face today, the vast majority of university students leave their academic work to the last minute. Whether for leisure, privilege other activities, for work or family responsibilities, or readings that exceed the student, many did not manage to successfully complete its work, leaving unfinished parts of their development or use of “chamullo.” To overcome this problem, I share a few tips that the college experience has taught me.

Note 1: The following tips are aimed at those who manage and academic writing. For those who do not know what it is or how to structure a sentence, a paragraph, a body of connectors, etc, I suggest that before continuing to strengthen this reading… but writing as well as weas following tips to save at the last minute will leave only a very large turd.

Note 2: Most of these tips that I have written for at least 8 hours of writing and are quick to write. I have been saved with 4 hours in length, so I guess 8 or more, can implement these tips and write a good essay without dying in the attempt.

1. Reading and collection (pre-write)
To write a good essay first need a good theoretical framework. Need ideas to enrich your approaches, analytical tools, assumptions, interpretations or data supplied by other authors. Try to identify at least what are the assumptions, arguments and conclusions. To understand a text, it is essential to scratch, do not hesitate to do so. Try to design a symbol that allows you to identify different aspects (even point, for example, if a paragraph or an entire sheet does not work for nothing), so that when you return to look up appointments and all that, do not waste time. My personal symbology includes objectives, a general thesis, secondary hypothesis, arguments based on their importance, chains of reasoning, quotes, examples, points in debate with other authors, points of interest and / or data freak, conclusions, reflections, research proposals , etc. It is also convenient to point relationships with others, the issues that may develop, or voids that have the text. Read the rest of this entry »