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Oct 1, 2018
College Essays: Three Essay Topics to Typically Avoid (or If You Do Them, How to Do Them Well)
Most college applicants will try to write one of these three essays. But that’s not the only reason why you…
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Oct 1, 2018
College Essays: Choosing a Topic
How to pick a topic based on the narrative you can tell — and the narrative the essay tells about you.
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Mar 16, 2018
Writing Guide: Lenses and Annotations
Poetic techniques associate one thing to another — typically through an equation or a tension.
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Mar 20, 2018
Writing Guide: Essential Transition Words
Start your sentences with these transition words to make your writing sound truly polished.
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Mar 20, 2018
Writing Guide: Essential Nouns and Verbs
The words every essay writer should use for polished analytical sentences
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Mar 20, 2018
Writing Guide: Words to Set a Formal Tone
Good analytical writing doesn’t say what is definitively true, but what is probably true. Use these words to set the proper tone.
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Mar 20, 2018
Writing Guide: Sentence Construction: How to Fix Dangling Participles
Dangling Participles are perhaps the most common grammatical issue out there—here’s how to fix them.
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Mar 20, 2018
Writing Guide: Sentence Construction: A Note On Subordinate Clauses
Subordinate Clauses are essential to contextualizing points and establishing counterpoint—here’s how to use them
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Mar 20, 2018
Writing Guide: Four Useful Sentence Constructions (and a note on citations)
Strong analytical sentences don’t just make a point—they show why a point matters. Use these four sentence constructions for…
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Mar 20, 2018
Writing Guide: Three Ways to Turn Weak Sentences Into Strong Ones
Learn how to identify your weak sentences—and use these three techniques to turn them into strong ones.
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