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7 Tips to Write Great Essays

By Ugur Akinci | January 5, 2018

Introduction Would you like to write great essays that are easy to read and retain? Then pay attention to the following seven time-tested points of essay mastery. (1) THE POINT Why are you writing this essay? What’s the whole point? Are you trying to prove a thesis? Or mobilize your audience for a worthy cause?…

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3 Important Differences Between Academic versus Technical Writing

By Ugur Akinci | January 1, 2018

3 Important Differences Between Academic versus Technical Writing (1) Proving vs. Instructing Academic writing is all about proving something in one way or the other. Technical writing, on the other hand, is all about instructing how to do something to achieve a specific goal. (2) Knowledge vs. Solution Academic writing aims at expanding our knowledge…

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7 Main Issues When Creating Online Content

By Ugur Akinci | December 29, 2017

7 Main Issues When Creating Online Content (1) Topic. Should it be about a current popular topic or an evergreen one? Current topic (e.g., “2017 Tax Bill Signed in December 2017”) will garner a lot of interest but will be forgotten soon. An evergreen topic (“e.g., “How to lose weight”) will never be out of style but…

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4 Reasons Why We Procrastinate

By Ugur Akinci | December 27, 2017

Why do we procrastinate? Let’s first look at the word itself. PRO in Latin means FORWARD. CRAS, again in Latin, means TOMORROW. CRASTINUS, derived from “Cras,” means BELONGING TO TOMORROW. That’s why to procrastinate means putting off something that you should do today to tomorrow. People procrastinate for a lot of different reasons. There is no single reason…

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