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    How to Write the Best Essay of Your Life
    How to Write the Best Essay of Your Life
    How to Write the Best Essay of Your Life
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    How to Write the Best Essay of Your Life

    By Scott Domes

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    How to Write the Best Essay of Your Life is based on a simple idea: your best essay means not only the highest grade, but also the easiest, least stressful writing process possible. You can have it all: the best results with less stress and less time.
    How? By putting an emphasis on thought over style. With this guide for university and college students, you'll learn how to beat procrastination and craft a thorough and engaging paper in as little time as possible. That's the dream- and How To Write The Best Essay of Your Life will show you how.
    The guide covers everything from picking a topic and creating a great thesis, to building outlines that make it so you never have to wonder what to write next. From there, HWBEYL takes you through the actual writing process- from the perfect paragraph to the perfect sentence- and then to editing made easy. The emphasis is on clarity and concision- cutting right to the chase, so you can get your work done and get back to what's important.
    Your next essay will the best of your life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScott Domes
    Release dateOct 7, 2014
    ISBN9781311866769
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    How to Write the Best Essay of Your Life - Scott Domes

    How to Write the Best Essay of Your Life

    Scott Domes

    Published by Scott Domes at Smashwords

    Copyright 2014 Scott Domes

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Make a Plan

    Pick a Topic

    Research

    The Thesis

    Outline of Arguments

    Outline of Examples

    Actually Writing

    Introduction and Conclusion

    Editing

    Getting Your Paper Back

    Conclusion

    Introduction

    Most students write essays the hard way.

    If you've ever been up at 2AM, staring at your computer screen with bleary eyes, about to tear out your hair from the stress of having to write another 500 words of nonsense- that's the hard way.

    The easy way, on the other hand, is going out for a beer the night before your essay is due, confident in an A-grade. The easy way is staying stress-free, while producing an engaging, thoughtful paper.

    When I started university, I was not a great essay writer. I was not happy with my grades, and I hated the writing process- I slaved away and was rewarded with B minuses.

    Since I was an English major with a perfectionist streak, I couldn't go on this way. I dedicated myself to improving my essays, and by my fourth year I was getting the grades I wanted (straight A's)- every time.

    But it wasn't just that. I discovered I could spend less and less time writing- by changing the way I wrote.

    It didn't take all-nighters. It didn't take sacrificing my social life- in fact, I could have more of a social life. Best of all, I could relax- I wasn't worried about getting it done, or about the grade I'd receive, because I was sure of both.

    I discovered what seemed like a paradox: I was able to decrease the amount of time I spent writing, decrease the amount of stress I felt, and get better and better grades.

    How? By changing the process.

    Writing is a Verb

    Teaching essay-writing usually revolves around what to write: what a good thesis looks like, how to cite sources, how to write English good-er with proper grammar and spelling.

    That stuff helps. But it's superficial, and has little to do with your actual grade. It's the decoration on the cake, and doesn't affect how the cake actually tastes.

    You have to learn how

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