Hi guys, I need your help on how to do well on my Essay for my English (a.k.a. Language Arts for those of you who dont live in the US). I currently didn't do well on my last semester because of the stupid essays that screwed my grade up >-<. I wanna do well this semester so that I can avoid taking it again next year for senior year. I want my senior year to be free as much as possible Any tips other than peer reviewing? EDIT: All essays are like 60% of our total grade everything else is like 15% -_-
There's plenty of things that you could do, but I personally had no idea how to give you tips when I have no idea what you're doing. I'll just list some tips. 1) Try and avoid using contractions as they make it seem less professional. It would be much better to use you are instead of you're. It's the same with cannot and can't. 2) Try and use some 'bigger' words. Make sure you know what the words actually mean and use them correctly in the sentences. Who knows, you may teach your teacher a new word! 3) Make sure the format of the essay is proper and easy to read. Appearance is just as important as the quality of writing. 4) You'll have more than one draft, make sure to keep them all, no matter what. Have another Word file with 'mistakes' so that you can go back and use certain things from them. Aside from this, I don't have much more advice as I haven't written an essay in about seven years.
How would contractions make it seem less professional? I use them all the time in my essays and I dont have problem with that.
Don't use them. It overall makes your essay seem less professional. My teacher takes off points if we use them, yours might do the same.
always use that MLA format. my teacher always takes away points when I just put my name. I'd be passing with hunnids if my teacher wasn't so picky. (i understand why, i just complain a lot)
I always use MLA format; Times New Roman, Font Size 12, 1-inch margins around, Teacher's name, Class, Date, Your name all in the right hand courner, etc.
Mine was the same. She was so nitpicky about everything that she spent more time complaining than reading them. Reminds me of the time she went nutters because someone handed in an essay that had been written in text speak. Pretty much a two-hour lesson of her ranting and raving about text speak and how it's turning the future generation into morons. Good times.
Here where I live, MLA format is always on the left hand side. It was so difficult to get used to because I ALWAYS wrote my name/date/period on the right hand corner lmao.
Writing has always come easy to me, it all went downhill when they gave me 35 minutes to construct a flawless essay on the similarities and differences in Greek and Roman culture
Currently taking Comp 1 in college. My professor says contractions are fine and it matters based on the professor. Some are fine with it, whereas some say don't do it. If you use them correctly there isn't a problem (in my case). Honestly, you could ask your teacher about it and see if it's a concern or not. It matters more than anything what you are writing. Whether its persuasive, informative, a process, etc.
Exactly. If you could give us a background of what type of papers you're writing, I would be glad to help. Are they memoirs, research papers, book reports, and so on?
