How to Write Good Essays

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Always pay attention to tenses in sentences.

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Sample: Poor Use of Tenses

I go to the store and I bought milk.

I will eat fish for dinner and drank milk with my dinner.

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Sample: Poor Use of Tenses

I go to the store and I bought milk.

Go is a present tense verb. Bought is a past tense verb. Bought should be buy milk since these two events both occur at the same time.

I will eat fish for dinner and drank milk with my dinner.

Will eat is a future tense verb but drank is a past tense verb. Since the dinner is going to happen in the future, it is not possible that the milk was drunk already.

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Punctuation: Do I need to say more?

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Spellings

Spellings should be always correct. If you are in doubt, make a practice to refer to dictionary regularly. This will help you a lot in later stage.

Sometimes, wrong spellings may make a sentence absurd. Be careful.

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Poor Use of Spellings

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Poor Spellings!

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Conclusions

Conclusion is for giving a final impression of your topic, essay and your views. In conclusion, you may-

Give a recommendation what the reader should do after reading essay.

Give a prediction about what will follow.

End with a relevant quote.

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Finally…

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To write good essays, you must have….

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General Tricks

Do not write in 1st person. (Avoid ”I”)

Move from weakest point to strongest.

Do not start a body / concluding paragraph with a quotation.

Always stick to tense.

If you have time, put it aside for some time, and revise.

Read your essay aloud, as you are making a speech. You will be able to find out some of the errors.