Developing persuasive writing skills is a process that students start in elementary school and continue to develop through high school and beyond. Read Write Think offers a good interactive guide that can help students craft a good persuasi...
Self-help books should be helpful, but bestsellers tend to offer humor too. Here are five tips for adding humor to a self-help book. Self-help books are fun to write. This is your chance to climb up on your (educated) soap box and tell peop...
In this post, we discuss how to write a five-paragraph essay that works, regardless of subject or topic, with a simple—but effective—plan for completing a successful essay. As a parent of five children (three now in high school), I’ve...
May 6, 2019, by John If my essay were… I love writing essays. There is no sarcasm intended in the previous sentence. I genuinely do. I love writing it, responding to the question, and seeing it as a unique way for me to express myself. Bu...
Writing essays is unavoidable in any school setting. Essays are long, tiring and intimidating, which means they’re usually put off until the last minute. If you’re mere hours away from a deadline with barely a page worth of words, fear ...
March 13, 2019, by Alina Tips on writing an essay that you’re completely stuck on Regardless of whether you’re a fresher who is stumped on an essay relating to a topic that you’ve never even though about, let alone know much about, or...
I’m writing a screenplay and I was told I had some plot holes in my story which I changed such as in for example, one of the villains in court, decides to pull a rabbit out of his hat and present a witness that gets him freed of all c...
December 17, 2018, by John How to write better essays Note: I write this article as a social work student, and this article is probably more suited to social science, humanities and arts students. You know your lecturers really love you whe...
Author Reyna Marder Gentin discusses how writing fiction helped her gain a new perspective on her personal life. It’s an oft-quoted adage: “Write what you know.” So it comes as no surprise that first novels are often largely autobiogr...
Wondering how to sell an essay? Writing a cover letter that’s short and perfect to introduce your pages will sell a piece faster than submitting an excellent article or essay with an uninspired note. This article is excerpted from Susan S...