Today, I am very happy after I handed in essay because it was the last one. Usually, I always worry about my essay since I want to get B+ in writing class. Now I have some time and I want to summarize my procedures of writing an essay. Before I begin my essay, I will think about structure and supporting ideas for three days and ensure I have enough material to support my main idea. Then, I will do a lot of research to support my ideas. After that, I will begin writing my first draft and reorganize my structure according to the importance of supporting ideas. When I was young, my Chinese teacher told me I could get a good mark on my writing if I paid attention on correcting it. Now I think this principle can apply in English writing as well. So, I will read my essay for twenty times after I finish first draft, and I think it is a good way to get a high academic performance. I will find several mistakes including errors of agreement, tense, number, word order, articles, pronouns and prepositions after I read my essay once. After that, I will correct all of them and read it again and again in order to avoid mistakes. Usually, I cannot realize mistakes immediately, so I will check it after several days because my mind might be changed at that time. Often, I will read my essay many times every two or three days, and I can found somewhere is strange when I am reading it after several days. At the same time, I often found a better way to organize my essay structure during I am reading. Then, I will reorganize my essay structure again and again until I am satisfied on my essay. The most common way correcting my essay is that I always repeat reading and organization. Finally, my final draft is extremely different from the first one.
Also, I often read some articles that I am interested in, and it often provides me some expectable ideas. And those ideas help me a lot on my essay save me a lot of time because they give a direction or field that I need to research in.
I hope you can get some useful information from my experience.
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I have a same feeling. Relief ha...
The semester is almost over. Ta Ta
An essay is definitely lots of work. I have a similar approach. You can save time by revising grammar only after you fixed all the structure and content issues. Because why should you fix a sentence that you're going to skip later on?
It sounds like some good information!
good luck on your final essay.
Good for you, you are certainly a hard working student, your approach is great, I am sure you will succeed!
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