Archive for the 'Writing Tips' Category

Some Rules for Effective Writing By George Orwell

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 in Writing Tips | No Comments »

The usage of effective language should be our major concern if we want to be heard. However, this is not so in politics. Some would tend to use vague or imprecise language so as not to offend various demographics. Fortunately, this is a condition that is discussed in the essay written by George Orwell in [...]

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More Tips For Effective Note Taking During Lectures

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 in College Studying, Studying Tips, Writing Tips | No Comments »

Note taking  is a common activity to many students but doing it effectively is a skill that must be learned. To make effective note taking a student must do multi-tasking because during lectures they are required to listen attentively to understand what the lecturer is discussing. At the same time, they have to write note [...]

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How To Improve Your Writing Skills

Thursday, April 30th, 2009 in Writing Tips | No Comments »

Writing skills  can be improved significantly by continuously practicing the skills doing some writing exercises. Enjoying the process of writing is also important because there is a need to invest time to write up things without rushing. Set a timeframe on how each deadline should be met.
Loving your writing as a craft will make you [...]

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Here’s How To Repair Your Corrupted Office Documents

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 in Study Tools, Studying Tips, Writing Tips | No Comments »

Have you ever experienced opening your MS Word, MS Excel or MS PowerPoint files and can not access them anymore? Well, I know how frustrating it is especially if the file contains important data about your existing school project or research work.
These circumstances really happen once in a while and the reasons vary from one [...]

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Cool Aid For Your Typing Needs

Monday, February 4th, 2008 in Study Tools, Writing Tips | No Comments »

Do you sometime need to type an entire book to create a new document that is in MS Word format but constrained in time to type all those pages? If you have a scanner, you can convert them into text document at a fraction of time by using the OCR or Optical Character Recognition software.
Don’t [...]

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Online Tool For Writing Papers

Thursday, December 6th, 2007 in Study Tools, Writing Tips | 1 Comment »

As I am browsing around, I found another online studying tool that students can use when they are researching and writing papers. The website is CiteULike, a free online tool to help you save and organize references that you will be suing on your research paper.
By just several clicks, you can easily compile all the [...]

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Tips For Students Who Hate Writing

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007 in Writing Tips | No Comments »

Writing a term paper, thesis or even an ordinary essay is probably the most hated work by many students. In fact, many of them say that they have this writer’s block. Why? Because they can not start writing a paragraph as they believe that they are not capable of writing a decent write-up. But based [...]

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Free Online Resource For APA, MLA And Chicago Citations

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007 in Study Tools, Writing Tips | No Comments »

Writing a thesis, a term paper or a research paper is not really an easy job for students. It entails hard work, patience and an eye for details especially when you are doing the final draft of your paper. Writing the final draft is probably the part that is hated by many students because of [...]

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Some Facts In Proofreading

Monday, April 2nd, 2007 in Studying Tips, Writing Tips | No Comments »

Proofreading your own work is not an easy task. For students and writers, they surely know how hard it is to proofread their own work. That is why it is more advisable to have someone to proofread your work because it is easier to see the mistakes if the person who is checking the essay [...]

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Select And Copy Vertical Text With Ease

Friday, March 16th, 2007 in Study Tools, Writing Tips | No Comments »

It is sometimes hard for us to select, copy or modify vertically when we are working in a Word document especially when we are trying to modify or copy just one particular side of the document and the document or list your are trying to copy is not inside a table. For example:
Boys           [...]

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