By: Garin Kilpatrick
Finding your own writing style can take a lifetime. But, don’t fret, we’ve identified 5 ways to immediately improve your writing style and effectiveness. Style helps create substance within every sentence. The following five tips are stepping stones on the path to stylistic success:
Over the last couple months, we’ve been working on bringing a lot of our capabilities to mobile phones. This allows you, the student, to do some really cool, time-saving things that make writing and researching faster.
Remember the last time you lost your usb drive or forgot to email yourself a doc? Well, our mobile app lets you access, edit or share any of the papers you’ve stored on Eduify from anywhere. You can just pull up the doc on your phone and email it to your teacher (yes, one less excuse to think of now).
Our mobile app also allows you grab the bibliography and quotes from books or other physical media with the camera on your phone. This means the days of photocopying pages from a book (yeah, save trees and copy-card credits!) and manually writing down the bibliography info are gone. Just snap a couple pictures and we turn quotes into editable text and nicely formatted MLA bibliography entries. Read the rest of this entry »
Aristotle is famous for saying —among many other things—that humans are “social animals.” Social relationships, which include professional relationships, are the foundation of our society; without them, we could not survive. Throughout your life—both in and out of school—you’re going to meet a lot of people. You will learn from many of these people and you will teach others. Such is the give-and-take nature of human relationships. When you’re young, you tend to be more on the receiving end of these relationships, and that is exactly what this blog post is about: how to take advantage (in a good way) of your relationships. Eduify has prepared this list of five types of people who can become great mentors for you and, in both the short and the long-term, help you meet your academic and professional goals.
Mentors, on a basic level, are people from whom we learn something that will be valuable to us in the future. Mentors are generally older than we are and have more experience than we do. Thus, the range of people who can potentially be our mentors and the range of things they can teach us are extremely broad. In addition to professing their expert knowledge to us and teaching us valuable life skills, mentors also make great references and they’re great people to approach when you need a letter of recommendation for your college applications. Such recommendations will help you to stand out from all the other graduating seniors when you’re applying for college, which will only help your chances of getting in to the college of your choice. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Twas the night before the SAT, and all through the house, everybody is stirring, and being loud and obnoxious—especially your little brother who keeps running by your door and pointing at you and laughing…oh, uh, sorry about that. I got a little carried away there for a minute. But, seriously, the night before your SAT or ACT can be chaotic and your nerves may be on edge. But Eduify is here to help! We’ve created this list of things to do the night before the test, so it doesn’t turn into the Nightmare before the SAT.
You’ve been preparing for this test for the last year—reading SAT or ACT guides, attending study groups, taking practice tests—and the time has finally come. The test is tomorrow. This is it…your entire future rests on this single test and if you don’t do well, you’re going to be flipping burgers at McDonald’s for the rest of your life. Actually, it’s not that big a deal. Even if you don’t score well on the SAT or ACT, you can always take it again; so take a deep breath and have a nice, relaxing night to make sure you’re physically and mentally prepared for the big test.
Stay Home – Even though half your school is taking the test with you tomorrow, some of your classmates are still out on the town tonight. Maybe they invited you along. Don’t do it. There will be another party tomorrow night, and, if you do well on the test, you’ll have something to celebrate rather than vituperate. Read the rest of this entry »
What are 4 things to do on your college visit and 3 things to avoid doing? Read our tips after the jump! Read the rest of this entry »
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