Many tutors and professors of various disciplines complain that reading and marking student essays is difficult because they are shallow, uninteresting, superficial, lacking in original ideas, and some are even similar in content and structure because the teacher assigns the same topic to an entire class of students at the same time. On the other hand, students find themselves at a loss on writing the essay either because they are not gifted with good writing skills or their knowledge of the topic is not enough. What will make both sides happier is for students to generate essay writing ideas that will ensure an interesting, relevant, well-organised and well-structured essays.
The problem can be identified as the fact that most students only spend a few minutes to think quickly and generate around three or four essay writing ideas before immediately proceeding to draft the essay contents. While this procedure is acceptable on time-constrained exams, this will not do for take-home essays giving the students several days of writing because other students who are using more efficient methods to generate good essay writing ideas will be able to write better essays. Below are some of the ways that will help students generate essay writing ideas that will impress their teachers:
Free-writing
As the name suggests, this involves the student writing any and all ideas that comes to mind on a given topic. The objective is to bring all ideas to the surface so that the student can distinguish which are good ones and which are better crossed out with a pen. This approach will probably have the writer rejecting many ideas before spotting a good one. Therefore, you initially do not have to fret about just being able to churn good ideas. Just get all your ideas out. Picking the useful ones and organising the spelling, grammar, format and structure will follow naturally.
Reading
Read all you can about anything related to your topic. You can find excellent ideas in books, journal articles, magazines and legitimate sources on the Internet. Just make sure that you read sources that are considered academically relevant. These are usually written by university scholars or departments and trustworthy organisations. The act of reading by itself encourages us to think and thus produce essay writing ideas.
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