A personal narrative describes a memorable event of an author’s life. The author interprets the event based on his point of view. It reflects the author’s thoughts on the event and how he perceives it. So a personal narrative can be described as an account of the event and why it has an impact on the author’s life. The personal narrative essay aims to attract readers through powerful and convincing style of writing. For writing a strong personal narrative essay, it is important that you build up the rhythm of your writing in the lead paragraphs before making an impact in the main Read more

A position paper, or persuasive essay in common language, intends to raise a standpoint for an issue and tries to prove or disprove it through persuasion. It may be a current environmental issue or a hot debate on a political scandal. Whatever you choose for your discussion, it must be supported by strong supporting points. Apart from your chosen topic, you must build it in a strong way that your arguments make an impact on the readers. Here are few tips that will guide you to the path of writing a strong position paper on a topic: Know your target readers. Understanding your intended Read more

The conclusion is the decisive part of an essay. This is where you have to connect the readers with the rest of the essay while highlighting your major point. Being the last part of your essay, it might not get your due attention. However, it will be the total waste of your time and efforts if it lacks the power to make an impact on the readers. In this article, I will focus on the core points to remember when crafting a concluding paragraph. DO’S •    Give a Meaningful Conclusion The purpose of a conclusion is to provide a summary of what has already been discussed in a body of Read more

The aim of an expository essay is to inform the readers about a topic with support of evidence and facts. An expository essay is one of the mainstream types of essay writing that you can find in number of sources such as magazines, journals and books. It is also the most versatile form of writing as you can mold it into various writing styles such as compare and contrast, descriptive and cause and effect. With expository writing, you can effectively impart your information to your targeted readers. Here I will demonstrate some effective tips about writing an effective expository Read more

For writing a successful poetry essay, you have to prove your skills in literary writing. You must have excellent knowledge about English literature as well as exceptional literary writing skills. But above all you will need help on brainstorming the thesis statement and outlining the piece. There are two fundamental elements of writing a poetry essay: (1) formulating a thesis statement and (2) creating an outline. By developing these two major tasks of a poetry essay, you will be more in control of your assignment. This article will focus on the main points necessary to accomplish these Read more

While editing is an essential part of academic writing, it is still underestimated by the students. Not editing your essay thoroughly leaves major issues unsolved in your essay and makes your writing skills questionable. Therefore, it must be your utmost consideration to edit your work thoroughly regardless of any types of essay. However, editing is a highly skilled job and therefore must be accomplished using the most trusted methods. It is a culmination of two major tasks: (1) Revising and (2) Proofreading. So I will be demonstrating you step-by-step methods to edit your work using these Read more

Writing an informative essay can be an interesting task if you do it with all your passion. Although it involves extensive research and analysis, it becomes much easier if you choose an interesting topic. However the success of an informative essay is highly dependent on how you will expand it in the body part and tie up the information in the most suitable way by writing a perfect conclusion. This article will inform you about some interesting tips on how to develop an informative essay that can best present your information to the readers: •    Firstly, you have to choose a topic Read more

Narrative essay discusses a personal experience in story writing form. It is perhaps the most skilled writing form among other types of essay. Not only it requires the writer to eloquently write about an experience, but also demands excellent descriptive writing techniques to vividly reflect your thoughts the experience. Here some useful tips that will help you accomplish this task effectively: •    The first and foremost step to write a narrative essay is to choose a good topic. By good topic, I mean something that is not only fascinating you but is also equally interesting to your Read more

A five-paragraph essay is a common type in essay writing (Read: A Guide to Essay Writing)  that has two more paragraphs than a common essay. This type of essay aims to argue, inform, narrate or describe an idea. For a five paragraph essay, you have an introduction where you introduce your topic and state three main points that you aim to put across through your essay. In the body paragraphs, you further discuss each of the three points in detail. While in the conclusion, you summarize all your main points. Although writing a five-paragraph essay might seem like a complex task, there are Read more

Paragraphing is an important aspect of essay writing. A paragraph aims to develop a single argument by tying up its related point. There is a definite structure of writing a paragraph i.e. introduction, body and conclusion. Although there are different types of paragraphs depending on its type and style, there are some common factors that you must remember when paragraphing an essay. They are: •    Types There are two main types of paragraphing an essay: (1) Compare and contrast and (2) Cause and Effect. There is a definite format to organize points in these two distinct types of Read more