Why is formatting so important? It is often neglected by students who think that this is boring and unnecessary: the professor will understand the paper anyway. Unfortunately, for those who are studying and luckily for the readers, adhering to the format is an indispensable thing. Let's consider an example: This picture demonstrates us how different … Continue reading “How to Deal with APA Citations”
Author: Patricia Jenkins
Patricia Jenkins is the senior writing advisor at FastEssay blog for international students that seek quick paper assistance. In her blog, Patricia shares useful tips on productivity, writing, research, references. Sometimes Patricia goes off topic by sharing her personal experience peppered with lively humor and healthy irony.
How to Avoid Plagiarism in Academic Papers
The Education Week and Psychologic Record studies say that 54% of learners, who have had to write academic papers, admit to appropriating materials from the Internet into their own works. And no one can claim that this statistics is exact because there is no guarantee that all the students told the truth while participating in … Continue reading “How to Avoid Plagiarism in Academic Papers”
Refine Your Writing Skills with Free Online Courses
The Babson Survey Research Group discovered in 2016 that every fourth university student chose to cover an online course while fewer and fewer higher educational representatives believe in the benefits of eLearning. These trends are quite ambivalent, and it’s hard to predict the future of online studying. But what we can say for sure is … Continue reading “Refine Your Writing Skills with Free Online Courses”
How to Properly Edit Your Academic Writing Draft
When you’re in the process of transition from high school to the college environment, there are many new things that you have to get used to as well as loads of moments when you think that you’ve got this, but, in fact, you haven’t. It’s a quite complicated period, and you have no other choice … Continue reading “How to Properly Edit Your Academic Writing Draft”
Best Websites with Online Courses for Students
College Explorer reports: about 47% of all students have already completed at least one online course. This percentage is huge and tends to increase. E-learning becomes more popular from year to year and there are several compelling reasons why it happens. The Internet is the new virtual reality and the number of ways allowing you … Continue reading “Best Websites with Online Courses for Students”
Hooks for Academic Paper
The first essay in the life of our imaginary friend Jake was dedicated to environmental problems and he started it with the following phrases: “Nowadays, everybody should care about the preservation of nature. It is very important for all of us or the planet will be in trouble” The teacher praised him, but when he … Continue reading “Hooks for Academic Paper”
How to Manage Your Time to Effectively Wade through a New College Year
You are in a never-ending battle with laziness, distraction, and lack of motivation. Modern novelties such as mobile phones, social networks, and other accessible online entertainments steal your time even more than before. Almost every student is constantly losing this fight and waste precious hours on something senseless but catchy. After a few months of … Continue reading “How to Manage Your Time to Effectively Wade through a New College Year”
Tips to Write an Essay Clearly
Almost every student knows that feeling when a professor asks them to be more specific about the topic. You can be confident in your opinion, but it still stays unclear for the reader. The issue mostly affects people who use English as a second language. Those students form the statement in their mother tongue and … Continue reading “Tips to Write an Essay Clearly”
How to Stay Productive During the Whole Academic Year
Oh, that's feeling when the academic year has just begun. You feel refreshed and are ready for the further accomplishments. It seems that nothing will interfere in your desire to be productive and become the best student among the course mates. Sadly, we have all been there and know how short-lived this inspiration is. Usually, … Continue reading “How to Stay Productive During the Whole Academic Year”
Outlining Techniques for Students
Writing without an outline turns into a chaotic process in which you can't cope with the thoughts rush. There are so many points you want to cover in your essay and express every idea that comes up to your mind. Furthermore, here also the opposite problem can appear: lack of information and futile attempts to … Continue reading “Outlining Techniques for Students”