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Writing a comparison essay is one of the most frequently given assignments in schools, colleges and universities. This type of essay is aimed at developing your critical and analytical skills, as well as your ability to argument your point of view. While writing a comparison essay, you should compare two thing, people, events or ideas. It may seem to be an easy task at a glance, however, some student find it rather difficult and they are right to some extent.
 
Writing a comparison essay, you should know several rules related to this assignment. This article provides you with the rules that will help organize your essay in the appropriate way.

1. Before writing a comparison essay, make a list of similarities and differences of two issues you are going to compare. Then, outline the less significant and the most significant. You should usually start writing a comparison essay with the less important, gradually following to the most significant.
2. As every type of essay, the comparison essay has an introductory part, the body of the paper and conclusion.
3. There are, actually, two ways to organize the structure of the body while writing a comparison essay.
4. The first type of the body presupposes describing the similarities of both issues in the first paragraph, the differences in the second one and comparison of both issues in the third paragraph.


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You are asked to write quite a long essay, for instance, 4-6 pages long. The paper is almost finished, but you cannot meet the required word limit and have only three pages. You start squeezing your brains trying to invent something and write, at least, other 500 words. Time goes by, but you are staring at a blinking cursor on your monitor having no idea how to make the essay longer.
 
At one time or another, all students face a situation like that. Finally, they end up with a reduced grade on a paper, because they do not manage to write a long essay. In this case, you should learn not how to write long essays, but how to make essays look longer. And you know, sometimes it is better to use tricks we present below than to make up some nonsense to get a long essay.
 
How to write long essays: trick 1
 
Start with “enlarging” everything. For instance, a teacher asks to use double spacing in your paper, then you should make your spacing 2.5 in size. Or, if you have to use 12 pt. font, make it 12.3 or 12.5. By the way, if you are not required to use some specific fonts, choose those that are bigger than standard Times New Roman. Courier New or Arial will perfectly suit your long essay.
 
Other things you can enlarge are spacing between letters and size of periods and commas. Make periods 14 pt. in size.
 
How to write long essays: trick 2
 
Avoid abbreviations and contractions. Write “United States of America” instead of “U.S.” or “there is” instead of “there’s”.
 
How to write long essays: trick 3
 
If you have long paragraphs in your paper, split them into smaller ones and add an extra space between all paragraphs.
 
How to write long essays: trick 4
 
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Debating means almost the same as arguing. You have a standpoint on a certain issue and want everybody else to accept it. To have a better understanding of what debates are all about, we advise you to watch some videos of political debates. These are the best examples of how one should argue for a certain point.
 
However, oral debates between people are certainly different from debating on paper and writing a good debate essay. If this is your next written assignment and you face some difficulties with it, we are ready to provide necessary assistance.
 
So, if you want to know how to write a debate essay and win the “battle”, follow these simple principles.
 
Principle 1: know the features of a good debate
 
A winning debate has several characteristics that you should know and use when writing own debate essay:

• logic;
• a certain position on an issue;
• proofs and evidences;
• refuting arguments;

Principle 2: choose debate essay topics wisely
 
Basically, a good debate essay topic is any current issue that is of great interest to public and causes… heated debates. Yet, it does not mean you should pick any burning issue for discussion. It should be something you feel strongly about and will be able to argue for in your debate essay.
 
Principle 3: investigate background of the problem
 
It is very important to study the topic of your debate essay thoroughly. What are the causes of the problem? What makes it so important to people? Why does this issue call opposing views?
 
Principle 4: collect arguments and counterarguments
 
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You have to write something like a world issues essay that should be devoted to some acute problems or just an essay on some controversial issue. What is the best way to get such paper done? One of the writing options you can choose is a critical issue analysis paper. Do you not know what writing critical issue analysis papers is all about? Then let us explain you everything right now.
 
The gist of a critical issue analysis paper
 
Actually, everything looks pretty simple. To prepare a critical issue analysis paper, you are supposed to choose a topic, evaluate it critically, and write your paper.
 
Two important skills necessary for writing critical issue analysis papers
 
There are two extremely important skills one should possess to prepare a strong critical issue analysis paper. You need to know how to:

• think critically;
• read critically.

What does critical thinking mean? In a few words, if you can evaluate information in an unbiased way, using your own experience and knowledge, you can think critically.
 
What does critical reading mean? First off, it is a significant stage you have to get through successfully to write your critical issue analysis essay. The whole process of critical reading will look as follows:

1. you skim through various sources first to get a general understanding of a problem;
2. then, you re-read the most useful materials and collect details related to your topic;
3. finally, you evaluate information, make your own judgments, and draw conclusions.

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Analyzing essays is a serious and not an easy task, actually. First, you need to evaluate someone’s work and have to be careful and attentive while doing it. Second, when you analyze essays, you improve own knowledge and skills of essay writing.
 
If you have to analyze an essay for the first time, we are glad to explain what it is all about and how to analyze essays correctly. The main rule you should keep in mind is – do not hurry, leave enough time to analyze an essay. Thus, neither will you make some mistakes nor will you make empty comments.
 
How to analyze essays: step 1
 
Start with reading an essay, mind that you should read it several times. At this point, you do not have to argue, or prove something, or share some ideas. Just read the paper and make sure you get the author’s point. To analyze any essay properly, you have to understand what its author is talking about.
 
How to analyze essays: step 2
 
Although it is not an absolutely important step, we still recommend you discuss what you have read with somebody. It is just a chance for you to ensure that you get everything right.
 
How to analyze essays: step 3
 
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