Research…

Essay writing can be a lot of fun! Yes, as impossible as it seems, you can enjoy yourself while essay writing and float through the calm waters of those deadlines without a hitch! All you need to do is practice. This is what every essay writer ****does when they want to become the best! To begin with, you need to be able to realize the importance of research. Research is like the fuel that will keep your essay running. To research properly, you need to stop doing things (at least writing your essays) in the eleventh hour! When you leave things for the last minute, you waste valuable time you could have spent researching.

Brainstorming

The research will allow you to gather enough information for you to be able to come up with a tentative idea of what your essay would be like. As soon as this sketch begins to emerge, you need to sit down and work on brainstorming. Brainstorming allows you to use all the information you have gathered so far and create a visual sketch of the way your paper will be organized and structured.

Outlines…

After you think you have created a mind map strong enough for you to adopt it as a blueprint for developing your outline, you need to create one as soon as possible. Creating an outline makes writing that first draft so much easier. It allows you to develop a coherent blueprint you will find easy to trace as you sit down to write the essay. An outline will follow the mind map you created.

Cite…

You need to take care not to plagiarize! Remember: Each idea you have even vaguely and partially tailored into your essay needs to be credited to whomever it belongs to. Not doing so would mean theft of intellectual property and since no one wants to be the one to do such a thing, you would want to cite references wherever they are required. If I wanted to write my essay ****and be proud of it, I would try to get my references right. Those references are the life and soul of your essay and they elevate your writing to another level, making it more reliable and valid because what you say is no longer based on random bits of information but tied together by evidence. Claims can’t just be valid without evidence!

The First Draft…

After you have done away with that outline, you would want to begin to write down your first draft. While you write it, you would have to conduct some more research to make your essay even more interesting. This would be the time to add or subtract information to make the whole thing more cogent and well-linked. Check all the logical connections to make sure they are based on the right rationale and follow the right sequence.

Edit…

Once you have written the first draft, prepare yourself to edit your heart out! Revisit the essay and read it again and again. Don’t shy away from creating the second, third, fourth, or even fifth drafts. Each draft will only make the final product so much better!

Time Management…

Learn to manage your time. All the steps mentioned so far can only be possible if you know how to make the best use of your time. Time is of the essence. You need to take the best care of it. Don’t let it slip away while you procrastinate. Begin early and divide your work into smaller chunks. This will allow you to be able to catch up on all the work, remain organized, and enjoy your life as you maintain a healthy work-life balance. It never pays off to just lean towards ignoring work and enjoying the time. This will only add to the burden later. You are taking time out from your future every time you are not maintaining a balance!

About Procrastination…

Get rid of procrastination! Yes, it will and probably already has turned out to be a bitter enemy. The greatest impediment in the way of effective time management is none other than procrastination. It also makes the difference between a well-thought-out, organized, and developed essay versus a haphazard thing put together at the last minute. You need to intervene and end procrastination if you find yourself scrolling for hours, even when you have an urgent deadline!

Read More…

Apart from time management, you need to develop a habit of reading extensively. A good reader can be a good writer as ideas come easily when you read daily. It becomes second nature for your mind to devise ideas and connect them. Read as much as you can. Start with assigning yourself a few pages to read every day!

Write More…

Writing is not just a skill you only utilize when you sit down to write an essay. To be good at synthesizing information, you need to be good at writing in general. Practice. Write more and more every day and practice will get you where you need to be.