Writing an essay can often be a challenging task for college students. There many steps to writing a well-written essay. The process of writing an essay can be divided into manageable parts so it’s easier for the student to do all the tasks one by one without them having to do all of them at once.
The most difficult part when writing an essay is conveying your message using the right words. To do this perfectly, you need good vocabulary so you have different ways of conveying your message. Most of the time your sentences will turn out to be wrong if you don’t have a good vocabulary.
You can start reading books as they’re the best source to expand your vocabulary. Being a student, you will have a lot of time to do this like after school or before going to bed or even in the library at school during your break time.
If you don’t have any experience in essay writing, although you should because essay writing is the first thing that’s taught in school. Anyways, if you don’t there’s nothing to worry about as you can always work hard and improve at it.
Essay writing isn’t that hard, it requires good researching skills as you will have to research about the given topic and make main ideas out of it. We’ll talk about this later in this article.
Here are the 5 ways to write an impressive essay in college;
1. Read the assignment carefully
FIrstly, you should always read the given assignment and its, instructions very carefully. Instructions were something not given in school on essay writing but as you progress towards college, you’ll come across these guidelines and instructions when writing an essay.
Always follow the instructions as it’s a test from your teachers to see if you’re able to write an essay within their guidelines and instructions.
2. Do effective research
Research skills are very important when it comes to essay writing. You can hire a writing helper for this if you don’t have much time to write the essay. They can help you with the research of the given topic making the process of essay writing a little faster.
3. Draft your essay
Using all the information you’ve gathered; you now have to draft the essay. Form 5 main ideas from the research you’ve done and one support example for each main idea.
Once you’re done with that, you can plot the ideas and their support examples in each paragraph so, it’s easier for you when proceed to write it.
4. Write its body
Use the draft and write the body of your essay. All the points will be plotted in the draft so, all you have to do is fill the paragraph with decent arguments using proper vocabulary.
Always use short sentences as they look neat and easy to read. Big sentences or paragraphs just look poor and are hard to read.
Conclusion
Now when everything is done, you need to give your essay closure. You can do this by writing a conclusion for it in which you will give a small brief review about the main ideas you’ve used in the paragraph.
