Practical tips for students who feel stuck at the start of an essay. Learn how to generate ideas, reduce pressure, and build ...

Early in their educational careers, students are taught to write introductory paragraphs that start by them introducing themselves and then merely spelling out what they mean to suggest quite ...

In this lesson, Joe explains how to write an introduction and conclusion for an opinion essay. Hi I'm Joe and today we're looking at how to write an introduction and conclusion in an essay. For this ...

Extended "discourse," such as class presentations or essays written as school assignments, has a particular structure arising from particular expectations and standards. Such structure, expectations, ...

Authors and editors in the humanities know that journals are more likely to accept scholarly essays with strong introductions and that such essays are more likely to influence academic conversations.

In this episode we will give you some tips and strategies for answering Task 1 IELTS Academic questions. We will look at what is involved in planning an essay, and we will plan answers to some ...

The word essay comes from the French word ‘essayer’ meaning ‘to try’ or ‘to attempt’. A French writer called Michel de Montaigne invented the essay in Europe as his ‘attempt’ to write about himself ...