Why Students Struggle With Essays As an English tutor, one of the main concerns of my students was writing their high school and college essays. Even though they may have had some ideas of what they wanted to say, they worried about getting it down on paper in a way that made sense and would […]
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Your paper’s due tomorrow. You’ve had a week to write it but here you are, 12 hours before your work is expected to pass from your hands to the teacher’s, still picking out a topic. You vaguely remember hearing the word “thesis” in class. You may have even read about it that day you were […]
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I struggled to figure out what I was good at. This whole “area of expertise” thing had me thrown for a loop. It was actually very depressing, because I came to the sad conclusion that I really wasn’t good at anything. So I did what any upstanding 25 year-old in a jam would do: I […]
I have struggled so many times with writing thesis statements for my essay all through high school. At first, I didn’t even understand why I should have to have a thesis statement. Why can’t I just write my essay just how I want? You really can’t. Once I hit college, I realized that a thesis […]
Whether one is writing a historical essay, submitting a paper for college admittance, or composing a business proposal, knowing how to write a thesis statement is crucial. The mechanics of a thesis statement are identical in any type of writing. Understanding how to write a thesis statement will immensely increase the quality of an essay […]
In any kind of essay, the thesis statement constitutes the most critical sentence in the entire paper. It states the author’s position, setting his/her task as the point to be demonstrated in the paper. Unfortunately, many such statements fall into problems of being overly broad, overly narrow, or overly complex. This article will discuss how […]