Posted on May 21, 2010

From time to time, teachers may ask you to analyze essays written by other students or some authors. Do you know that it is one of the most useful exercises you will get? Here are several reasons why:

1. Each time when you analyze essays, you improve your knowledge and skills.
2. Steps that you take to analyze an essay can be taken as well when you edit school essays and other papers.

If you are not sure how to analyze an essay properly, let us introduce a plan you need to follow.
 
How to analyze essays: step 1
 
Take a pencil and start reading an essay. At this first stage, you can read it quickly, not going deep into details. Just get its general idea.
 
How to analyze essays: step 2
 
After the first reading session, define whether you understand all words, specific terms. If necessary, look up the definitions of unknown words.
 
How to analyze essays: step 3
 
Read the essay for the second time. Now, do not hurry, read the paper more carefully. Your main task at this stage is to define the author’s main point or thesis statement. Do not forget that a thesis should appear at the end of the first paragraph and should answer the question “What does the author want to prove?”
 
How to analyze essays: step 4
 
When the thesis is defined, pass to the structure of the essay. In the body paragraphs, the author should develop his/her point and provide supporting evidences. It is important that in each body paragraph you find a topic sentence, specific examples, facts that back up the author’s point.
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Posted on May 19, 2010

Do you want to know some secrets that will always help you write excellent essays on Biology? Actually, if you are good at writing essays in general, preparing good Biology essays will not be a problem for you as well.
 
Sure, because your essays are devoted to Biology, they will be a bit different from, for instance, essays on Literature or English. Anyway, let us be consistent and talk about the main aspects of writing essays on Biology.
 
Essays on Biology: coming up with the main idea
 
Selecting something specific in such a broad subject as Biology seems to be almost impossible at a glance. However, do not hurry to panic. If a teacher does not give any specifications as to the topic of your Biology essay, first decide on the branch of Biology that interests you: zoology, botany, ornithology, etc.
 
Then, brainstorm for a while and make a list of issues within this branch that you feel passionate about the most. Flick through special journal or Web resources that will help you narrow down the scope and come up with good topics for your essay on Biology.
 
Essays on Biology: organizing your paper
 
Again, the overall organization of essays on Biology will depend on teacher’s instructions. Yet, if giving instructions is not one of your teacher’s habits, take into account the following.
 
Essays on Biology can be organized in different ways. Let us offer you two of them.
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Posted on May 17, 2010

Writing essays on novels is a typical task for those who take Literature classes. Basically, there is nothing special about novel essays, and they are very similar to any other paper devoted to Literature. Yet, there are peculiarities one should keep in mind when discussing novels in essays.
 
First, let us remind you that preparing an essay on a novel without reading the novel itself can be very tricky. Sure, you can read reviews and critical comments, but they still may be not enough to get a full understanding of some literary work.
 
By the way, we do not recommend you read too many free novel essay samples or critical comments on the novel you are going to discuss. Experts or other students might have different opinions, and in the novel essay, you are supposed to present your personal vision of the work. Besides, most probably, you do not know all the reputable literary critics, what means you can use some untrustworthy materials to prepare your essay on a novel.
 
What are students expected to do when writing essays on novels? There are several ways to prepare an essay like that.
 

1. Very often, teachers just ask to analyze a novel. This means that you have to look at various aspects of the work: its plot, main characters, central themes, etc.
2. Sometimes, you can be asked to focus on a specific theme and discuss it in your novel essay. If this is the case, introduce this major theme in the first paragraph and then touch upon several aspects related to it in the main body of your novel essay.
3. Finally, at times, you will have to deal with the most complicated way of writing essays on novels. We are talking about the situation when a teacher asks to compare two novels.

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Posted on May 10, 2010

There are so many online writing services that sometimes it puzzles you: both paid and free, they claim to be the best. Paid services that offer academic papers are relatively easy to comprehend. Free essay archives are much more controversial.
 
Is it worth to spend your time and efforts on a paper that can be downloaded from an essay archive by everyone? This is what we try to answer today.
 
Essay archives: PROS
 
Certainly, custom essays archives have some advantages. For example, it is better to learn writing using already prepared papers that can be found in an essay archive. Certainly, you will not buy essays just to see how they are written. The problem is that the overall quality of free papers available in essay archives usually leaves much to be desired. So, if you take a paper from an essay archive, you get poor proofreading, poor writing style, negligence to citation issues. This list can be continued.
 
Paid writing services are also useless if you need a free sample. Our advice is to search for samples in specialized places. Check libraries, your teacher’s archives, and special essay archives like writing blogs. They can offer not so many essays, but each of them is provided with critique.
 
Essay archives: CONS
 
You cannot hand in free downloadable papers from essay archives. It is suffice to Google a single phrase out of your paper and everything will be revealed. Even if your teacher does not check papers for plagiarism, you cannot be sure that the same paper from the same essay archive was not already handed in by previous students or even your classmate.
 
Certainly, you may avoid accusations of plagiarism. How? Well, you can rewrite every single phrase, using only the ideas. This means that you effectively write your own essay.
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Posted on May 5, 2010

This time our topic is ICT, which means you are going to deal with something that is a part of our everyday life. Usually, it is very difficult to write about such things, since they are too familiar to us and nothing catches our interest. Yet, this only seems to be so. Our goal now is to share some ideas for those working on ICT essays.
 
ICT essays: between factualness and curiosity
 
Essays on information technology are very special: computer technologies are both your topic and writing tool. Thus, the final version of your ICT essay not only shows your writing skills but also reveals your skills and experience in using these technologies.
 
ICT essays: choose a topic.
 
Your work on the ICT essay should definitely start with choosing a topic (unless something specific is assigned). Remember that your goal is not to come up with a research paper. You do not need to be very specific and describe the reverse side of computer technologies and explain how they work. Your task is to find something unfamiliar to your reader, some interesting fact. Let your ICT essay be a general review of it.
 
ICT essays: think of your audience.
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