Essay writing is taught to students with the aim to improve their writing skills as well as thinking essays.
Essay writing is the easiest and simplest way to improve one’s writing skills.
Teachers sometimes held essay writing competitions in class as well as school level competitions, where students of different schools can participate, and more than often these competitions are reward based, i.e. students who win the competition get certificates and trophies.
Sometimes when the essay writing competitions are high level, then students are even rewarded with money checks.
In this article we will provide some amazing tips and tricks that the students can use to improve their essay writing and eventually can aim to win big money yielding competitions.
Point wise sentences
When students are preparing for essay writing they need to take into consideration the word limit of the essay.
Most often students either surpass the word limit or fail to reach the number of words required.
To maintain the word limit of the essay students can make point wise sentences. It is advisable on our end that before writing the essay, students should write all the topics and sub topics in point, on a rough page or at the right side of the page with pencil which they can later erase.
Doing so, they will stay with the topics and the points they might have made during drafting or practice of the essay.
When students are drafting, they need to read and re-read the essay in order to organize the ley points of the essay.
When students write essays with organized key points their essays are more likely to impress the reader and make it easy for them to understand what the students actually want to convey. This portrays the organizational as well as expressing skills of the students.
In depth research
When students are given the topic prior to the competition, students can consider themselves at an advantage then.
Topic is the most important element of the essay writing. When a student is pre-informed about the topic the chances of the student winning the competition increases exponentially.
As soon as students are given a topic they should start reading about the topic and making sure they understand the concept of the topic and the reason behind why such a topic is given to the students.
When students understand the aim behind the topic, they can deliver the content that is expected of them.
Once the student understands the topic its time to start researching, nowadays, students directly link research with the internet.
We instead recommend students to look for content offline, that is to say, read books, magazines, research papers, etc anything relatable that is available offline. As this will instantly make the content of the essay unique, because most students refer to the internet for knowledge.
Students can refer to the internet also, as it saves a lot of time and effort, but in this case, they should not go with mediocre sites and essays or articles that are available to students. Internet is quite vast and students can get the books and research papers or technical articles even online by in-depth search.
General knowledge
We already discussed what to do in case of an already given topic.
But what if the topic is to be given then and there before the competition begins, this is where students start to feel anxious and under confident, and this is because they have so little knowledge.
The best way to overcome anxiety for such situations is educating oneself.
Every student needs to have some basic general knowledge, even if it's not taught in schools.
Students should maintain a habit of reading newspapers and watching television channels like discovery, national geography and news channels, to educate themselves on the topics beyond school level teaching.
Having knowledge about distinct topics builds up the confidence of the student. Also, when preparing for the essay writing competition students can count on which date the competition is happening and If the particular day has some importance.
If on the very day of competition some auspicious day falls students must prepare themselves and educate themselves regarding the same day.
Attentiveness in class
When the particular language subject teachers are teaching something students should be very attentive in class as the topics they are being taught might come for an essay writing competition.
Teachers at times even give some hints or tips regarding the essay writing competition, so students need to pay concentration in the class.
Structure and format
Another important thing students need to focus on is the structure of the essay.
Students need to make sure they make small paragraphs that are pleasing to the reader’s eyes.
Also making small paragraphs makes it easy for readers to understand the thought flow of the students.
Students also need to present their work in an appropriate manner, instead of cutting wrong words and creating mess they should use pencil to correct the words.
Students can also underline important words to get the attention of the reader on the specific words.
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