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Essay Writing

By Ted Neilson
This site has been reproduced with the kind permission of Ted Neilson. His original site can be found at www.write-an-essay.com

Edit your essay draft

Editing your draft is an important last stage in writing your essay. Editing lets you check, cut, simplify, polish, review, change and proofread your work. Good essay editing can turn a B-Grade essay into an A-Grade essay — indeed — it’s often the difference between the grades.

Here are some examples of edited essay paragraphs. The redrafts use the ideas of clear writing you have just read. You’ll see most editing cuts wasted words to put the student’s ideas into sharper focus making the writing style clearer and more authoritative.

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Many authors receive their inspiration for writing their literature from outside sources. The idea for a story could come from family, personal experiences, history, or even their own creativity.

For authors that choose to write a book based on historical events, the inspiration might come from their particular viewpoint on the event that they want to dramatize.

George Orwell and Charles Dickens wrote Animal Farm and A Tale of Two Cities, respectively, to express their disillusionment with society and human nature.

Animal Farm, written in 1944, is a book that tells the animal fable of a farm in which the farm animals revolt against their human masters. It is an example of social criticism in literature in which Orwell satirized the events in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution.

A Tale of Two Cities also typifies this kind of literature. Besides the central theme of love, is another prevalent theme, that of a revolution gone bad. He shows us that, unfortunately, human nature causes us to be vengeful and, for some of us, overly ambitious.

Both these books are similar in that both describe how, even with the best of intentions, our ambitions get the best of us.

Both authors also demonstrate that violence and the Machiavellian attitude of “the ends justifying the means” are deplorable.

(215 words)

redraft

Authors may gain inspiration from history — where they describe, interpret and dramatize it from their own viewpoint.

Both George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities express their disillusionment with society and human nature.

Orwell wrote Animal Farm in 1944 as a social criticism and satirical comment on the Bolshevik Revolution — showing farm animals revolting against their human masters.

Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities uses the French Revolution to show how human nature is vengeful and often too ambitious.

Both books describe how our ambitions get the best of us and that violence and the Machiavellian attitude of the “the ends justifying the means” are deplorable.

(110 words)

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One of the criterion that was used to evaluate which of the test six search engines returns results the quickest was speed. However, it is important to note that the speed test is both a test of the Internet connection to the remote machine, as well as the time taken by the search engine to perform the search. Furthermore, tests of Internet speeds are very variable and are dependent upon time of day, other Internet traffic etc and are therefore of only limited accuracy. For this reason, no 'hard numbers' were calculated (i.e. timed searches). Instead, each search engine was rated based on 5 searches per engine at the same time, same day.

(113 words)

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Evaluating six search engines for search speed caused problems. The speed test depends on the Internet connection to the remote machine, the time of day and amount of Internet traffic. Therefore, rather than use standard, timed searches, the test used rated each engine on five searches taken at the same time on the same day.

(55 words)

StyleWriter essay editing software

To write A-Grade essays, you need a thorough knowledge of the subject, must marshal, argue and present your information to answer the question set and communicate clearly. With hard work you can research the information and answer the question set. But to gain the coveted A-Grade you must communicate clearly.

Most students fail to write clearly. I strongly recommend you take a look at StyleWriter. By ordering the Software for Writers CD you can get an instant download of the StyleWriter trial (full working) which you can run through your essay.

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You will not find a better tool to make you a good essay writer and gain that all-important A-Grade.

Best of luck with your essays.

Ted Neilson. www.write-an-essay.com

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