Simple Ways to Improve Your Best Essay Writing

Academic essay writing is a style that anyone may master once they understand the fundamentals of essay writing. An academic essay should start with a strong, disputed topic that is then backed up with relevant evidence from other sources or one’s own research. The majority of research is inclined to guidelines set. Even if you’re on a tight deadline, remembering some basic rules for academic essay writing will help you produce worthwhile, convincing writings:

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• Make a rough sketch. Before you start writing, be sure you know what you’re going to write about: It is critical to know what you want to communicate before you begin writing an essay. Making a basic outline before you start writing your essay is the easiest approach to focus down a subject and develop a proper argument. The following elements make up the basic structure of an academic essay: an introduction with the thesis; the body of the essay, which should include separate paragraphs discussing evidence supporting the thesis; and a conclusion connecting to the thesis by tying everything together. A good rule of thumb for how much evidence to include in an academic essay is to include at least three solid points that directly support your thesis.

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• Develop a strong command of basic grammar, style, and punctuation: If you want your study to be understood and taken seriously, grammar, style, and punctuation are critical. Make sure you understand fundamental grammar before you start writing an essay. Verb and subject agreement, proper article and pronoun usage, and well-formed sentence structures are all examples of grammar basics. Make sure you understand how to utilize the most frequent punctuation marks. Be aware of when to use a comma and when to use a period. Finally, voice is crucial in academic essay writing. When possible, use the active voice instead of the passive (e.g., “this study found” instead of “it was found by this study”). This will definitely strengthen your essay tone. Make sure you have clear and simple language. Avoid needless wordiness that detracts from your point and transition words that don’t contribute anything to the phrase.
• Use appropriate vocabularies. Understand the meaning of the terms you’re using: It’s crucial to pay attention to how you use language, especially while writing an academic essay. When beginning with an academic essay, always remember that you are going to make an impression on others that you as an expert are bound to make a sound hypothesis. It’s easy to spot when someone is overcompensating in their writing by using big words only to sound knowledgeable. You risk using a word wrongly if you are unsure of its actual meaning. Using esoteric terminology can detract from the clarity of your argument; keep this in mind before reaching for the thesaurus to replace that perfectly good word with something altogether different.
• Understand the argument and evaluate the evidence critically: You should constantly keep your main point in mind when writing an academic essay. While it may be tempting to veer off on a tangent discussing a fascinating side remark to your topic, this will make your writing less concise. Always ascertain whether this directly supports your thesis or not, before using any evidence in your essay. If the answer is “no,” the evidence should most likely be dismissed. Always be analytical and meticulous while analyzing evidence. To support your thesis, you’ll want to rely on the most reliable sources. Everything you include should be related to your topic and argument in some way.
• Understand how to produce a solid conclusion that backs up your research: The conclusion is one of the most ignored aspects of academic essay writing. Your conclusion connects all of your research towards the justification of your thesis. It should not be a rehash of your introduction or a straight copy-and-paste of your argument. A proper conclusion rapidly summarizes the major information mentioned in the body of an article and connects it to the thesis to demonstrate how this evidence supports or refutes the research’s main point. Countless excellent writings have been produced only to be derailed by ambiguous, poorly phrased conclusions. Make sure your next essay isn’t one of them.
• Identify the question’s instructions: You should read every word of that essay question very carefully before you begin writing. Make sure you’re following directions and paying attention to the small details that add up to a lot. Do you need to prepare a speech or an essay? Do they say you’ll need ONE, at the very least ONE, or TWO or more related texts? There are no excuses for neglecting this step because you can do it while reading.

• Make a quick blueprint for the structure: In an exam, always plan your essays. Like… all the time. When you start an exam, the rush of fear adrenaline can tempt you to start writing right away, but save yourself a world of pain by planning ahead. Basically, you’ll want to write down your thesis (which you’ve probably already prepared but will tailor to the specific question) and the structure of your body paragraphs. If you’re interested, we go into more information about planning here.
• Organize your time for the essay and the entire exam: There are two recommendations here (lucky you), but the main one is to manage your time when writing the essay and throughout the exam. So, first and foremost, you must provide adequate time before the exam to complete your essay. If the exam is anything like English Subject, an essay makes up for a third of the (two-hour-long) exam, so you must begin with the last 40 minutes.

Hot tip: Many top students finish with the first two sections of the exam such that they devote more time to strong essay writing.

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When it comes to drafting the essay, the framework you devised will indicate whether or not you’re on track. You only have 40 minutes to prepare an essay with an introduction, conclusion, and four body paragraphs? Sweet. So, it’s very obvious that you should finish your introduction and the first two paragraphs in 20 minutes. If you’ve messed up the timing of the entire exam and don’t have all 40 minutes, pick up the pace; if you can’t, it’s time to make some hasty decisions about what to cut.