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It’s a simple fact: better study methods and employing particular study strategies yield higher exam scores.

Reviewing the material you’ve written and read during class will help solidify it in your mind. Cramming the night before an exam isn’t a good method for test preparation. Lecture notes, textbooks and study guides should be out in front of you as you begin to study. Writing a summary of the most relevant information during your study period will help memorization.

The works cited page should remain on a separate page. All entries should be double spaced, and margins of no more or less than one inch should exist at the top, sides and bottoms. The Works Cited page should be titled ‘Works Cited’ and should not include quotation marks, bold text style or in any way effected (except for capitalization. Each entry line should flush left, with all subsequent related lines indented ½ inch.

We’re going to briefly examine what a sentence is exactly, and how it comes in different forms. Our first type of sentence is what is known as a simple sentence. This sentence contains one clause and one clause only, which can include only one word, such as “Go!” It would be a mistake to assume, however, that a simple sentence can’t be a long sentence.

One can’t tell a compound sentence, for instance, from a simple one. It’s also very important to include transitional phrases in order to link simple sentences to surrounding ones.

If you want to write the perfect thesis, you have to do your research first. Of course you'll want to research your subject thoroughly, but you'll also want to do a little research on what makes a good thesis.

You'll also need to know how those recommendations apply to your school, because each and every school is different. They all have different ways that they want you to go about doing your thesis, and they all have different ideas about how it should be formatted, how many pages it should be, and other issues.

Brainstorming is a technique that's been around for a long time. It's been used in all sorts of writing classrooms from students who are just beginning to write all the way up through high-level college courses.

With brainstorming comes some thoughts on how to do it properly and whether a particular type of brainstorming will work better than some other type. Bubble brainstorming is one of the best choices for a lot of people.

If you really need something proof-read, you should ideally have someone else do it. However, there are times when this is simply not possible, and you'll need to do it yourself. There are some simple tips that you can follow in order to make sure that your proof-reading is fool proof.

You should give yourself some time between finishing your paper and proof-reading it. That will make it more likely that you'll spot any errors that you made.

Some people get really nervous when they fill out their college applications, but you don't have to do that. There are ways to be less concerned, and one of them comes from understanding that the application process is not designed to trick you.

The questions are not there to trip you up, and they are not designed to make you look bad. The best thing you can do when filling out a college application is just to be honest in answering the questions, and read them carefully. Make sure you know what the question really is asking you, so that you don't stray off topic.

Mar 14, 2012

High school comes with a lot of obstacles: class, homework, grades, sports, clubs, deadlines, meetings, work, community service, family, friends, curfews  (just to name a quick dozen). Since showing up freshman year, it’s been an all out sprint trying to poise ourselves to receive scholarships, get into our preferred university so we can get credible advanced degrees and land the perfect career. Hold on, how am I already in my thirties?

It’s time to take a break and act our age for a minute.

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