How to Add 300 Words to Your Essay in 15 Minutes
How to Add 300 Words to Your Essay in 15 Minutes
Here’s the problem: you’ve typed a page or so, which amounts to about 250 words or thereabouts. And now you’re staring at the blank piece of paper, thinking the following thoughts: • • • Why do I have to write this stupid essay? ! I’m not even a Writing major – why do I have to do this? Why can’t the word requirement be one page? What, there’s not enough out there in the world for my professor to read? • When am I ever going to finish this?
Hey, if you have any thoughts other than those, please feel free to share with me and email me at tutorphil@tutorphil.com. I collect these (just kidding).
How do I know? Well, I’ve been there, and that’s how I know. And, luckily for myself and now for you, I have figured out how to handle essay writing, especially when I don’t feel like writing anything at all. And I’m going to share a technique with you that you can go ahead and use right now to add lots of words to your essay, while improving your essay’s quality without being wordy. Okay – let’s dive right in.
The name of the technique is:
ZOOMING IN
That’s right – Zooming In. What do I mean by that? If you’ve sat down to write a paper and you have some material, but don’t know what else to write, then chances are that in your paper you haven’t exactly been going
from more general to more specific, which is a vitally important skill to have in order to eliminate all pain associated with writing a paper. And, although you don’t have to be a master of this skill in order to use the skill of Zooming In, you need to understand it on a basic level.
So, let’s take a look at the following statements that came from the same essay:
• “Holidays can be fun times.” • “Thanksgiving is a great holiday because of all the food and the chance to see some of the distant family you’ve missed.” • “Last Thanksgiving was very interesting because we had almost all of our family over.” • “It was so funny when my uncle Fred
Here’s the problem: you’ve typed a page or so, which amounts to about 250 words or thereabouts. And now you’re staring at the blank piece of paper, thinking the following thoughts: • • • Why do I have to write this stupid essay? ! I’m not even a Writing major – why do I have to do this? Why can’t the word requirement be one page? What, there’s not enough out there in the world for my professor to read? • When am I ever going to finish this?
Hey, if you have any thoughts other than those, please feel free to share with me and email me at tutorphil@tutorphil.com. I collect these (just kidding).
How do I know? Well, I’ve been there, and that’s how I know. And, luckily for myself and now for you, I have figured out how to handle essay writing, especially when I don’t feel like writing anything at all. And I’m going to share a technique with you that you can go ahead and use right now to add lots of words to your essay, while improving your essay’s quality without being wordy. Okay – let’s dive right in.
The name of the technique is:
ZOOMING IN
That’s right – Zooming In. What do I mean by that? If you’ve sat down to write a paper and you have some material, but don’t know what else to write, then chances are that in your paper you haven’t exactly been going
from more general to more specific, which is a vitally important skill to have in order to eliminate all pain associated with writing a paper. And, although you don’t have to be a master of this skill in order to use the skill of Zooming In, you need to understand it on a basic level.
So, let’s take a look at the following statements that came from the same essay:
• “Holidays can be fun times.” • “Thanksgiving is a great holiday because of all the food and the chance to see some of the distant family you’ve missed.” • “Last Thanksgiving was very interesting because we had almost all of our family over.” • “It was so funny when my uncle Fred