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Write like a Tour guide
Visiting a museum, I don’t want to look at them myself; I spend long reading the notes and don’t know what to see. A tour guide is generally knowledgeable, and usually enthusiastic about the subject, And a good tour advance a clear and powerful argument backed by strong analysis, carefully selected representative evidence. Good tour guide guy does not discuss every piece on the wall, instead they took the most interesting pieces and guide their group to a logical sequences. Write as a good tour guide.
Write like a Tour guide
Visiting a museum, I don’t want to look at them myself; I spend long reading the notes and don’t know what to see. A tour guide is generally knowledgeable, and usually enthusiastic about the subject, And a good tour advance a clear and powerful argument backed by strong analysis, carefully selected representative evidence. Good tour guide guy does not discuss every piece on the wall, instead they took the most interesting pieces and guide their group to a logical sequences. Write as a good tour guide.
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Revision
If there were one thing that I can tell my students to improve their work, or their quality of thinking, or to improve their grades, it would be revision. A revision, there is no such a thing as good writing, there is only good rewriting. The very best writers in the world know this, and they all adhere for it. The revision is something to do with seeing again. Revision is to see with new eyes. This simple strategy will help them more than anything else to do it well. Go to revise. Go to see again with fresh eyes.
Revision
If there were one thing that I can tell my students to improve their work, or their quality of thinking, or to improve their grades, it would be revision. A revision, there is no such a thing as good writing, there is only good rewriting. The very best writers in the world know this, and they all adhere for it. The revision is something to do with seeing again. Revision is to see with new eyes. This simple strategy will help them more than anything else to do it well. Go to revise. Go to see again with fresh eyes.
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How to revise an Academic Essay
The main ideas of the essay
Revision helps you from the reader’s point of view and sees the large structure of your paper.
Is there a sentence that is the main argument of the paper? If you can’t find the sentence, than your paper does not have a theses, and your readers can’t either.
If you do have the thesis in the introduction and conclusion, put them together. Bring the conclusion back to the introduction. Are they making the same basic argument? Often they are not.
In the first draft, it helps you to clarify and you find ideas, which is great. Make sure that you will bring back the thesis in the conclusion to the introduction, revise them to reflect the more sophisticated thesis that the conclusion does. You will correct it to agree with the conclusion.
Now your introduction and conclusion are putting the same thesis, Go to the main subsections of your paper. In each section once again find the main sentence, how this part of paper supported the thesis? If you can’t find it, your reader neither.
Now in each of the subsection, there is a sentence, helps to support the main argument.
Copy just those sentences into a new document, and read them in order, do the ideas flow well from one to another, or something is out of place? Is there anything important is missing? OR just does something not seem to belong anymore?
Once you have tick the summary of your essay, illuminate the sections that do not belong.
And now you know your essay come in a clear persuasive order. You are ready to go for advising or post.
How to revise an Academic Essay
The main ideas of the essay
Revision helps you from the reader’s point of view and sees the large structure of your paper.
Is there a sentence that is the main argument of the paper? If you can’t find the sentence, than your paper does not have a theses, and your readers can’t either.
If you do have the thesis in the introduction and conclusion, put them together. Bring the conclusion back to the introduction. Are they making the same basic argument? Often they are not.
In the first draft, it helps you to clarify and you find ideas, which is great. Make sure that you will bring back the thesis in the conclusion to the introduction, revise them to reflect the more sophisticated thesis that the conclusion does. You will correct it to agree with the conclusion.
Now your introduction and conclusion are putting the same thesis, Go to the main subsections of your paper. In each section once again find the main sentence, how this part of paper supported the thesis? If you can’t find it, your reader neither.
Now in each of the subsection, there is a sentence, helps to support the main argument.
Copy just those sentences into a new document, and read them in order, do the ideas flow well from one to another, or something is out of place? Is there anything important is missing? OR just does something not seem to belong anymore?
Once you have tick the summary of your essay, illuminate the sections that do not belong.
And now you know your essay come in a clear persuasive order. You are ready to go for advising or post.
