Primary Research Group recently released a report based on a survey of 1,140 college students from four-year colleges in the United States. According to the study, only 67% of the students have ever written a paper that is 10 pages or longer.
Among the students who participated in the survey, college seniors were significantly more likely than college freshmen to believe that they needed further instruction in writing skills. Nearly 32% of the students in the C grade range have had specialized tutoring sessions in writing skills.
If you are a college student in the U.S. or in any part of the world, you cannot do away with writing whatever bachelor’s degree you are pursuing. Here are some writing tips for you:
Writing for students
You cannot simply force yourself to enjoy writing if you are not in the mood. But as a student, you do have to force yourself to write if it is required. This is one way of training yourself. When you enter the workforce, there will be more job-related tasks you have to complete on time whether or not you are in the mood.
When your are “forced” to finish a writing assignment, what you can do is at least make less cumbersome. There are steps that you can follow to make things easier in such situations.
Focus on your topic.
With a clear topic, you do not have to spend too much time writing several drafts and proofreading multiple times. If your title has many different elements, narrow it down to a specific area.
Focus only on that topic. For sure, there are other interesting things related to your topic but remember, you are writing an article or an essay, not a book. Stick to your specific topic to avoid adding unnecessary sentences, no matter how interesting, that you will end up deleting when you proofread later.
Have a clear purpose.
What is the purpose of the article or essay you are writing? This has to be clear even before you write your first sentence. Do you want to prove that a certain argument is valid or faulty? Do you want to explain how something happened by narrating a story? Do you want to give descriptive details of a tangible thing? Do you want to describe an intangible idea by comparing it to tangible things? Do you want to evoke a certain emotion, such as feeling sorry for a crime suspect?
Whether it is a 300-word article or a 10,000-word essay, one purpose is enough.
Stick to the pattern.
Writing becomes tedious even if you have a clear topic if you have no idea how to present it. The pattern is based on your purpose.
Are presenting a cause-and-effect argument? Then present the cause and the effect. That’s it. Avoid adding unnecessary things like the history of the subject if it does not help explain the cause and the effect.
Are you simply narrating events? List only the events that are essential to the story you are presenting. Do not describe the people and the places involved in the events if they do not have a significant contribution to the story.
If it is a man’s rags-to-riches story, just explain why he was one considered poor, what he did to overcome poverty and why he is now considered rich. Don’t add his love life if it did not help him rich.
If you are proving that the Earth is flat, just present your pieces of evidence. Don’t talk about your credentials; they do not prove that the Earth is flat. Don’t list the crimes of some people who believe otherwise; these are not proofs.
Get help online.
If you consider writing your weakest point and there is no help available in your physical world, you can go online and get help. You can visit EssayShark to help you with your writing assignment. If you have complete your essay but you are not confident about its quality, you can find websites that can check your essay’s grammar and style for free.
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