Posts Tagged ‘Writing’
September 17th, 2009
The Simpsons is a show that is rife with literary references. So rife, in fact, that we had difficulty narrowing it down to our five favorites. Like many of you students, we here at Eduify have seen every single Simpsons episode (at least once). We love the show for its incisive and hilarious writing, its endearingly obnoxious characters, and the strange relevance that a little cartoon can have on our actual lives. So, without further ado, here are our 5 favorite Simpsons episodes and educational links to the literary references therein.
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September 16th, 2009
By: Garin Kilpatrick
“If I plan to learn I must learn to plan”
Those words were written on my sixth grade teachers desk. They will stay with me for life because they depict an important point: Planning is imperative to success. This point is no less true when applied to writing a paper. By breaking a paper down into a planned process the writing process becomes much more manageable. Follow these 5 steps and help systematically secure the success of your paper!
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August 6th, 2009
How do you win a scholarship? Perhaps the easiest way if you have an essay is to enter the eduify.com Wunderkind Scholarship contest. Beyond doing what you can to get the most votes for the essay you submit to the eduify scholarship contest, you can also win other scholarships by taking the application process seriously. Put your best effort into winning a scholarship and you raise your chances significantly. Don’t send generic, canned scholarship applications out. Scholarship admissions committees can tell when an applicant is half-heartedly applying or not taking the application process seriously enough, so why risk losing a scholarship for lack of effort?
How do you take the scholarship application seriously? We’ve already shown you how to write a stellar scholarship essay. Now, we’ll show you how to put together a great scholarship package.
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August 4th, 2009
There’s no doubt about it: scholarship essays are a tricky matter to approach. Scholarship competitions often arrive at your doorstep during the last half of the school year, by far the most hectic time in the academic year when students are already bogged down with extracurriculars, final exams, looming end-of-year grades, not to mention stress-inducing standardized tests. More often than not, high-schoolers focus on their “real schoolwork” and procrastinate on the “optional schoolwork” of scholarship applications, to the point where they end up scrambling, up to the final hours, to turn in shoddy, half-hearted applications, essays, and personal statements to a host of scholarship competitions they actually would have had a good chance of winning, had they simply believed in themselves more and taken more time to do a job well done. Read the rest of this entry »
July 28th, 2009
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:
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