Tips and Tricks for Writing Essays, Make Lecturers Amazed by Your Work

 Tips and Tricks for Writing Essays, Make Lecturers Amazed by Your Work

 

  

VIVA MEDIA GROUP - Making written works such as papers, essays, articles to theses, theses or dissertations is one of the things that must be mastered by students. Writing essays seems to have become a staple in the academic world. Of course, lecturers will give good grades when a student is able to write written papers systematically, master the topic of discussion and is right on target.

Of course, in writing essays, several strategies are needed so that they are able to produce good, weighty but concise writings, and of course not long-winded. Therefore, here we will learn together about tips and tricks on how to write a good academic paper.

 

 1. Master the Topic of Problems or Issues to be Raised

In writing a paper, we must first understand and know the topic of the problem to be raised. In mastering a problem topic, we must reproduce and deepen it by reading some relevant references. Moreover, the topic of problems that are trending will be more interesting and studied. A lecturer will assess how deep and how far our writing is in discussing a problem topic, and what approach we use in discussing the problem topic.

We can look for supporting reference sources about issues that are happening in the community. Of course, it is not limited to just one discipline, but includes a variety of interdisciplinary disciplines, so that the topics discussed are getting more weighty. After it is felt that you have understood the topic of the problem in depth, the next step is to raise the topic of the problem with the theories that have been studied in lectures.

 

 2. Make an outline of important points

After we have mastered and understood a topic that will be raised, the next step is to determine and map out the main topics that we will use as core problems or keywords. Suppose we want to write about the topic of economics and the pandemic. So we can use these two keywords to discuss the topic more deeply about the problems that we will examine. This is done so that we focus on the topic of discussion earlier and do not expand the discussion too much.

 

 3. Compare your own writing with other writings that have similar discussion topics

This is done with the aim of avoiding plagiarism. We do a comparison and check to see if someone else has written on this topic with the same title.

An easy example is suppose we write about the economy and the pandemic, but we find the same title. The solution we can take is to write the same problem, but with a different approach.

In addition, other writings with similar topics can also help us to write papers, namely as a literature review and previous studies. That way our writing will be deeper and certainly more up-to-date (update). Then we must avoid quoting other people's writings without us reworking the sentence structure in our own language. Because this is a form of plagiarism and includes a fairly serious academic violation.

 4. Use your own language

Writing in our own language will produce original (original) writings and of course have the characteristics of our own written language. Of course, in writing in our own language, we must first learn the standard language of writing, if in Indonesian, the reference we follow is the KBBI (Big Indonesian Dictionary), so that even in our own language, our writing will remain standard and according to the rules. applicable language.

 

5. Understand the rules of systematic writing

This is what makes our writing scientific and of course different from non-scientific writings. We can learn about the rules of writing from the guidebook that applies in a campus or the guidebook that has been given by the lecturer. Of course, we also have to understand about writing which is quite important, namely citation.

When we write a scientific paper and we take an idea from a character, we must insert the name of the character. Actually, there are many citation patterns, but the ones that are generally used for writing are the APA style and the Harvard Style.

Well, the above discussion are tips and tricks about writing good essays. Hopefully these tips and tricks can be useful, yes! 

 

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