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It’s essay writing season for tons of students!

After being a college writing tutor for over a year, I thought I would share my advice with all you awesome people on tumblr. This is how I write essays, but if you’ve got more tips, feel free to add them below. 

How to write a kickass essay with ½ the stress A kickass ppt by wittacism

SLIDE 2:

Find out what your teacher wants

get the assignment prompt and break it down into its individual parts

this becomes your skeleton for your essay

spooky

SLIDE 3:

Don’t start with the introduction paragraph

seriously this is a great way of stumping yourself ten minutes into the writing process

you’re trying to write an intro for a paper that doesn’t exist yet???

start with the first body paragraph

SLIDE 4:

Your awesome body paragraphs

the cool thing about the essay is that you pretty much get to tell people what to think

don’t hold back

your name is already on the top of the page

so whatever you say

try to really mean it

SLIDE 5:

Conclusion paragraph

the conclusion is like the end of a 30 second commercial where they hold the product up at the end just in case you forgot you were watching a Hot Pockets commercial

hold up all your arguments for the audience one more time

just in case they forgot what they just read

SLIDE 6:

Introduction paragraph

now that you have some kickass body paragraphs and a conclusion, rewrite your conclusion in introduce your topic

notice how its 300x easier to introduce something AFTER you’ve written it

slap a badass thesis statement on the end of your intro

SLIDE 7:

Badass thesis statements

remember that skeleton we made in slide 2?

get it back out

make a single sentence that talks about all those points

it’s totally cool to write a sentence that says, “In this essay, I argue that…”

then just list those things

done

SLIDE 8:

Quotes

quotes are a great way to make yourself look credible and to add length to your paper

lets be honest, no one actually wants to write 2,000 words

you need to talk before and after a quote

tell people who you’re quoting

tell people why they should care

SLIDE 9:

Citations!

fun fact: Microsoft Word’s citation maker is literally the scum of the earth

never ever use it

use citationmachine.net instead

or make your own

(it takes about the same amount of time with a lil’ practice)

SLIDE 10:

Done

go get yourself a milkshake

because you have a rough draft, my friend

be proud of yourself

“Dance until you shatter yourself!” - Rumi

The Persian poet & Sufi mystic Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi) inspired his followers to establish the Mevlevi Sufi Order after his death in 1273 CE. 

The Mevlevi Order are sometimes called ‘Whirling Dervishes’ due to their famous practice of whirling as a form of spiritual devotion to god.

The act of of the whirling dance is inspired by the quran verse “wherever you turn is the face of god”. Members of the order see the dance as a form of worship.

Unarmed Black Man With Hands Up Shot By Police.

Charles Kinsey, 47, a behavior therapist from South Florida was shot in the leg three times by the police in North Miami while laying on the ground with his arms up and trying to help his patient with autism who had run away from a group home.

It all started when someone called 911 and said there was a man walking around with a gun. However it was Kinsey’s patient who was sitting on the ground cross-legged, playing with a toy truck.

Charles got shot by police despite telling them he was only trying to help his patient.

The police shot him, handcuffed him and left him on ground bleeding.

North Miami police have not released much information at all. They haven’t released the officer’s name, they haven’t given us an update on the investigation. However, they did say that the state attorney is now a part of this investigation.

#CharlesKinsey   #BlackLivesMatter