General Tips on Writing Essays

In our class, we studied how to write different essays. Remember that when writing specific essays, it must be clear to the reader what essay you are writing.

Transition words are very important. These help identify what kind of essay you are writing. Here is a link to 100 transition words:

http://homeworktips.about.com/od/essaywriting/a/transitionwords.htm


We also learned that a good essay contains  3 to 5 paragraphs. Here is a link on how to write good 5-paragraph essays:

http://homeworktips.about.com/od/essaywriting/a/fiveparagraph.htm

Vocabulary is also a valuable part of improving your writing. Always try to use your own words, rather words copied from tests, however, try and add to your vocabulary, but using words that ou understand, but don't often use. Here are some examples:

Some overused words:	Why not use these words instead?
amazing awesome awfully bad beautiful big fine good great happy interesting look nice quite really said so very well	absorbing avid bold candid colorful compelling detrimental distinguished dubious embarrassing empowering intuitive irrelevant marvelous motivating novel powerful predictable questionable wonderful

Reference: http://homeworktips.about.com/od/paperassignments/a/tiredwords.htm