Writing Your Essay

Writing Your Essay As your intro is unlikely to need many quotes, it makes sense to get the ball rolling and feel a sense of achievement as soon as you've planned your essay and know where it's going. Start with the most obvious or all-encompassing argument, as this will allow you to progressively go into more detail on each of the smaller arguments â€" one of the keys to a good essay. Once you've decided on your approach to answering the question, you should be able to form a pretty solid plan for the body of the essay. It can be helpful to come up with a quick answer in your head, as this gives you a general idea of what to write about and means you won't need to keep rereading the question. Next, decide your approach â€" how are you going to tackle the question? But, as we touched on earlier, not everyone can get their ideas written down and do it eloquently all in one go. If this is you, then take this time to refine what you've produced and make sure it gets full marks for written communication. It's your essay and, as long as you keep relating your arguments to the question, you can take it in any direction you choose. The very fact that they're short and worded in a very straightforward way means you're probably expected to construct a much more original and complex essay to respond to it. If you've been given a choice of essay questions, you should choose the one you have the most knowledge about, or have some strong opinions on. There are many reasons students find themselves in this pressurised situation . We're not here to judge, rather help you make the best of a tricky situation. I fear that I might accidentally forget to mark daily pages as private. And it's just weird having my private brain dumps out on various sites that are designed to be more social. I don't need to title my entries, or tag them, or enable comments, or any of that other stuff. This is writing, and it's online, but it's not blogging, or Twittering, or Facebook status updating. In the past, looking for a spare notebook was probably easier than looking for a computer. As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, owlcation.com uses cookies and may collect, process, and share personal data. It's about getting it all out of your head, and is not supposed to be edited or censored in any way. The idea is that if you can get in the habit of writing three pages a day, that it will help clear your mind and get the ideas flowing for the rest of the day. Unlike many of the other exercises in that book, I found that this one actually worked and was really really useful. Now it's time to gather the all-important information and quotes to support your arguments. This way, when you sit down after lunch to tackle the main body of the essay, you'll have already knocked a couple of hundred words off the word count. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so. I may revise 50 times and I stop only when I no longer change any word. I don't know if my hands even work anymore with pen and paper for any task that takes longer than signing a check or credit card receipt. I've long been inspired by an idea I first learned about in The Artist's Way called morning pages. You had every intention of getting your essay done before the deadline, but sometimes life can get in the way. Every day you write, you'll get beautiful stats that analyze the feelings, themes, and mindset of your words. For example, learn about how often you get distracted, and how fast you write. I've tried writing my 750 words a day on Livejournal, Wordpress, PBWorks, Tumblr, and all of these other sites designed around putting content online. We've allowed 3 hours and 45 minutes for editing your essay, which might sound a bit excessive â€" and, for some of you, it definitely will be. While your essay plan should see you through, there's nothing to say that more ideas won't occur to you as you go along.