23rd September 2009
The beginning of the semester means many things to many students: seeing old friends, visiting favorite places, resuming college-related activities of all kinds. Unfortunately, back to school for many of those students also means dread in the pit of their...
23rd September 2009
It's autumn now, which means back to school, but instead of being excited about all the fall-season activities, you’re starting to feel the dread in the pit of your stomach. Why? Term papers.
For many students, nothing fills them with more dread than...
23rd September 2009
Today's students are fortunate to have a variety of options available to them when they are ready to obtain an advanced degree (whether undergraduate or graduate). Most traditional colleges, meaning the brick and mortar variety, offer a wide array of sche...
22nd September 2009
Today's students have two primary options available to them when they are ready to obtain their advanced degree (whether undergraduate or graduate). This is true even for students whose lives are not like that of the typical college student. Most traditio...
21st September 2009
Writing a Persuasive Essay
What's an essay ? Well, ideally, it isn't a random collection of thoughts just poured out on a page. Ideally, the essay is a well-crafted piece of thought with a particular purpose: to inform, to persuade, to argue, or simply...
17th September 2009
Every fall, hundreds of thousands of students return to college and university campuses across the world waiting to receive what might as well be a death sentence: the assignment of a term paper. It doesn't matter what course it is, what level of study it...
17th September 2009
In early September, hundreds of thousands of students return to college and university campuses across the world waiting to receive what might as well be a death sentence: the assignment of a term paper or research paper. It doesn't matter what course it ...
12th August 2009
Academic writing is a particularly formal type of writing used for school papers and theses. One of the first things that students need to understand about academic writing is that they should never ever use the word “I” in academic writing.
In for...
12th August 2009
Let's face it: not everyone is cut out to attend an institution of higher education. That's no commentary on anyone's intelligence, discipline, or anything else; simply an observation. Not all of us want to go to college or university due to a wide range ...
12th August 2009
Almost all of us had to write book reports as children in elementary school, but the book reports that we are expected to write when we get older are a lot more complicated than those first attempts.
As we get older and more educated, the book reports ...
25th July 2009
Colleges and universities originated with some pretty pure ideals. Like all such beginnings, however, this one was a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it is a good thing to have a place devoted to the true pursuit of knowledge, the quest for understand...
25th July 2009
If you're a graduate student or planning to be one, you already know that you will have to write either a master's thesis or a doctoral dissertation in the future (possibly the very near future). However, while these are intimidating enough, there is one ...
24th July 2009
So often, high school students put the cart before the horse and focus upon what they will have to do in order to survive in college. It's not always their fault; after all, guidance counselors often focus upon the skills needed to thrive in the post-high...
