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How To Answer Essay Questions

Afternoon, everyone! So, how is your holiday going? I hope you're enjoying yourself. I know some of you are probably stressed because you might be sitting exams or writing papers within the first few weeks of the new year. So let's get back to basics. How do you answer an essay question? I remember during my undergraduate my tutors drummed the importance of structure and form over and over again. Having a good structure for your essay will help you with the flow of your writing and it will make it so much easier for your tutors to understand exactly where your essay is heading. It will help with the direction of your essay to prevent you from putting in extraneous information that doesn't need to be there. The structure of your essay has to be something that follows the marking scheme and criteria. Some topics might require you to have an introduction and proper conclusion while others don't. You could have subtitles or not, it really depends on your marking crite

21 Tips For Motivation

Afternoon, everyone! Hope this afternoon is going splendid for you. I am sat here with a very hot cup of hot chocolate. So valentines day passed by me like a blur. The whole week has been quite hectic. With interviews and random health struggles, it has all been a bit overwhelming. I decided to take yesterday to rethink all my current habits and how I was going to improve. I think it is so vital to take a step to reflect upon systems and methods that are not working and daily changes that have to be made to improve. The following are my 21 tips on motivation. I don't use all of them but I do think there is some merit to all of them. Productivity is, like everything else, a skill that needs to be practised meticulously. 1) Plan every hour of every day. Planning often keeps you accountable to your goals and tasks. The act of writing down a plan will make the plan more achievable than if it is in a cesspool inside your head. 2) Take a shower. If you are feeling particularly low

Why You Should Vote

Afternoon, everyone! Let's talk about the general election. It's just a week away and there are so many reasons why we should vote. The parties are all making so many promises and proposals for new policies. We need to get out there and decide what we want for the future. Regardless of whether you support one party or another party, just get out there and vote and make sure your voice is heard. Voting impacts how things are in your community and your life.  So why vote? Sure, you might say that you'll have no influence and no impact on the outcome. You might even be completely disinterested in politics and the news but not voting will mean that other people will decide how your entire world is run. From Brexit to education, from the environment to the NHS, it will be decided by someone else. Voting is deciding what policies should proceed and policies make real-life changes. Your vote will impact a whole plethora of different and important aspects of your life so