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3 Simple Rules To Help Massively Improve Your Teen’s Writing Skills

July 23, 2012 by thestudygurus 5 Comments

3 Simple Rules To Help Massively Improve Your Teen’s Writing Skills

When you’re at elementary school a huge part of the day is taken up with developing your writing skills. But if my memory serves me correctly, developing our writing skills grinds almost to a complete halt at high school. I don’t know where in the world your teen goes to school, but at my high school, if you were naturally a good writer then yay for you, but if you struggled with English and stuff involving written words, you probably weren’t going to improve a whole lot… And if your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Essay Writing, Homework Help, Studying, Writing Tagged With: essays, grammar, spelling, writing, writing skills

Making The Word Count Count

June 13, 2011 by thestudygurus 2 Comments

Making The Word Count Count

The word limits on essays and assignments can be annoying and, at times, even a little intimidating. Meeting any word count requirements are built into the assessment criteria of a particular assignment. This alone should be enough reason for your teen to obey them. But in addition to that, they also give valuable information on how to plan the work. 1. Start with the research Obviously, a longer word count requires more information than a shorter piece. So it is reasonable to assume … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Essay Writing, Homework Help Tagged With: assignments, essays, homework, new, word count

5 Must-Do’s For Outstanding Essay Writing

February 21, 2011 by thestudygurus 39 Comments

5 Must-Do’s For Outstanding Essay Writing

Your teen needs to step up to the mark because school is getting harder. High school education continues to move away from tests with one word answers and towards students having to come up with paragraph or even full essay answers. And there’s a good reason for this. The internet has become so widespread and so accessible, that having a library of singular facts stored in your head is no longer helpful. The average cell phone can now access Google or Wikipedia anywhere. Type in your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Essay Writing, Popular Articles, Studying Tagged With: essay plan, essay structure, essay tips, essay writing, essays, must read, paragraph structure, practice, tips

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