5 Motivational Writing Essay Tips for Students

A Story by Richard Nolan

Those, who struggle with essay writing during school years, often think that it might get easier once they go to college �" and they are often right. To some students, essay writing indeed becomes easier with time and lots of practice. However, not all students are so lucky.

But even the luckiest of them might have troubles completing all the writing assignments successfully when assigned to many of them. So it’s always good to know a couple of tips able to make the process easier �" and to keep this tips in mind.

Here’s what could help you write essays better and stress less in the process.

1. Plan your writing

Planning doesn’t only ensure that you won’t miss a deadline and won’t spend a sleepless night writing. It also allows you to prepare better and to prioritize the tasks in the right way. When you start planning when you’re going to write your essay and how much time approximately you’re going to spend on that, you’ll be able to see the picture clearly and juggle your writing assignments more effectively.

There’s no unique way to plan your essay writing. Some find it easier to schedule the whole evening on writing, while some do their research one day and write on the other day. But planning, in general, helps everyone a lot, so always keep this in mind.

2. Organize everything

If you struggle with the writing process itself, you should do your best to prepare for it as much as you can. Organizing saves time, helps to avoid procrastination, and also makes the further writing easier.

Start with preparing your workplace. Make sure that everything you might need in the process is within the hand’s reach, while all the distractions are tucked away. Also, organize your research as well: take notes, write down quotes and everything else you might find useful during the writing later.

3. Remember about the structure and the outline

While an outline writing is not as challenging as the writing itself, it does help later a lot. It also ensures that you’ll be able to maintain a proper essay structure (which consists of an introduction, a body, and a conclusion) and won’t forget any of the important arguments you planned to use.

An outline could also help you see the flaws in your essay before you even start writing it. For example, after finishing your outline you might find out that you have too many arguments or that some of them are too weak.

4. Work well on the introduction and the conclusion

The body of itself is indeed important - but sometimes it’s the introduction and the conclusion that help to make the lasting impression. Therefore, ensure that you start strong - with an interesting hook that could be something personal or a surprising fact or a controversial statement able to provoke an emotional reaction. Don’t make an introduction too long and make sure that the transition between it and the body is smooth enough.

Remember that the conclusion shouldn’t repeat an introduction. However, it could refer to it in some way while also summing up the main idea of your essay (also without using the statements you’ve used before).

5. Keep in mind that proofreading does take time

Despite we all know that proofreading could affect the result of the writing a lot, not all students actually bother to spend a lot of time on proofreading. Meanwhile, one of the best ways to proofread is not to simply find time to re-read your essay right after you finish it �" it’s to find enough time so you could distract yourself from an essay well enough, preferably for a day or at least for a couple of hours.

While proofreading, run an essay through an online proofreading tool of your choice, as it does help you to spot some mistakes you might not have noticed otherwise. But don’t settle for this result and proofread manually after that. Keep in mind that it’s not only errors and typos you need to spot and fix �" it’s the weak arguments, poorly formulated sentences, and other things as well.

Essay writing isn’t always easy, but the proper attitude, a good organization, and a thorough proofreading could make the whole process more bearable for you. Therefore, invest some time into preparation and polishing �" it would definitely be worth it.