Welcome back to Tip Tuesday!

I know that it has been a while since I have posted something on my blog, but I really want to start it back up. I have been busy with school and everything in real life that I just got caught up and put everything on pause. School gets out in a month and I am really excited to start working on my blog and sit down and take a breather for once.

For this Tip Tuesday, I wanted to give my two sense on writing a scholarly essay. I know in the previous posts in this series, I did just post basic tips on writing and did not really elaborate on anything specific. Writing a scholarly essay is a lot of work and does require a lot of revisions. No matter how many times you read over your essay, there is always something that you can change to make your essay that much better.

My professor recently just told me that cutting out some of the most repetitive parts of your essay and making connections between two subjects can make your essay so much better without all of the unnecessary wording. He also told me that I have a good writing structure and flow when I do go back and hone in on certain topics or ideas and that maybe I could work on some freelance work. If you think your writing is not good at all, you are wrong. Everyone can be a good writer, they just need to really sit down and read through what they are writing. And something that I like to do is just throw all of my thoughts and ideas onto a document and then go back and revise and re-read what I had written. If you revise to early on in your paper, you can lose the motivation to write quite fast and that is a big no no. Walking away from a writing session can be good so that when you go back to the document, you have  a fresh set of eyes to look over the paper but make sure its not a super long break in between because you would want to write the whole thing all over again because you will think that the whole paper is no good.

Also, you can also have a peer look over what you have written as well. I did this in the first semester of my English class where my peers and I would trade papers and be brutally honest with each other and mark up the whole essay. Sometimes when you have someone else look over the paper, it can be better than no one looking at it besides you. Having someone in the same age group and same writing level as you can really benefit you in the long run because you can see where you stand when it comes to writing in a college environment. These methods will not only be good in a writing class, but it will also be good if you need helping writing any type of paper or even a college entrance essay.

If you would take one thing out of this blog post, what would it be? And what tips would you add?

Thank you for tuning into this weeks blog post and come back next week for more!

-Chey