Essay writing can be challenging. Here are some tips to improve your essay writing skills.
Don’t use rhetorical questions like 'what is life?' if you are not going to answer the question yourself and keep referring back to the rhetorical question.
Don’t use definitions: Describing words at the start of the essay is old schooled. You should avoid doing it at all times.
Declarative statements are better (instead of saying ‘what is water say’ use ‘water is’
Try not to cover too much: If you try to do too much. It generalizes what you are trying to say.
Avoid generalized sweeping statements like all women love romance novels
Be weary of exaggeration
Stay away from the grandiose ideas, focus on the concrete
Draft 1
Draft 2 - Revision
Final Draft - Self reflect
Publish your essay: Let students publish their content, for example, a magazine cover and news website
Don’t use words like ‘many’, ‘similarities’ and ‘dissimilarities’ x is akin to y and not z
Don’t use passive voice, try to use active voice
Use verbs, it will add clarity to your writing, search for any ‘to be’ verb in your writing and omit this
Remove filler words from your essay: 'This' and 'that' must be removed from your essay
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