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9 Mistakes Students Make in Their First Essays

August 12, 2021 By GISuser

Many students fail when they write their first essays. What’s more, teachers are prepared that they will fail. Yet, this period serves for students to learn all the academic writing requirements and advance their essay writing skills.

A good thing is that you don’t have to make mistakes all by yourself to learn from them. You can gain this wisdom elsewhere. Together with the EssayHub write my essay specialists we’ve come up with a list of mistakes that a professional essay writing service team believes to be the most common in the first essays students get to write.

Here we go!

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Inappropriate Introduction

There is a rule that an introduction should be catchy to make readers want to read the whole text. At the same time, academic writing requires students to put a thesis statement in the introduction for the same reason.

If an introduction is boring, consider you failed to hook your reader. In this case, the overall grade for your essay may be lower than expected.

Inconclusive Conclusion

It’s wrong to assume that body parts are the most important in a given essay. Actually, it’s a conclusion that goes last and is the most memorable. Therefore, a big mistake is to leave it inconclusive or to throw in new ideas in the last part of your essay.

Use this part to answer the question or argue the point you’ve set in the thesis statement. Help readers understand what your writing was all about and what ideas you tried to pursue. This is what a great conclusion does.

Misunderstanding Requirements

Every essay that is assigned to a student usually comes with a list of requirements. Many learners, however, don’t read them before they get to writing. In the end, they might even come up with a beautiful essay, but it’s written against all the instructions.

Reading the requirements list should be the first thing you do when tasked with essay writing. It’s not that difficult or boring. Moreover, these specific points might prove pretty helpful in the actual writing process.

Inconsistencies in Writing

Talking and writing are two different things. You may be quite descriptive when it comes to speaking. Also, you have your intonation to help you get understood. Or, you may even jump from one argument to another, still counting that your counterpart follows you.

Any inconsistency in writing ends in a huge misunderstanding. Thus, the biggest mistake of all freshers is making their writing sound the way they would say the same lines. Since you have more time to think when writing, choose more appropriate constructions. Avoid run-on sentences and inconsistencies in the text.

Improper Formatting

Formatting does matter a lot. If your paper doesn’t look the way it’s supposed to, you may lose some points for it.

Referencing styles determine the width of margins, font size, justification, and other parameters that impact the layout. If you fail to follow all the rules, your essay may end up looking improper. This may discredit it as an academic writing piece.

Wrong Citations

Everybody knows how harsh teachers are to those who plagiarize. Yet, very few know how to quote literature so that it looks professional and neat in a paper.

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Students often neglect to reference their sources leaving some hints for instructors to understand where a certain piece of information comes from. This strategy is absolutely wrong. 

There are quite a few referencing styles that describe how one should put the name of the author for it to be considered as a citation. Study these rules before you get to writing to make everything look impeccable.

Spelling

Typos are common in all types of writing. What’s more, it’s hard to keep track of them while creating the text. Yet, for a teacher, they are a signal that this paper in front of them was never proofread.

Even if you have never written an academic essay yet, the advice is always the same: re-read your paper twice before submitting it. You’ll definitely correct a few typos and come up with better wording here and there.

Grammar and Punctuation Errors

Spelling is not the only problem for students. They are also prone to grammar and punctuation mistakes that make their essays sound poor.

Teachers are very picky when it comes to the quality of writing. We encourage you to be more attentive to writing. Always proofread and edit your paper before you submit it. 

Also, use some grammar checkers to make sure even the slightest mistakes are taken care of.

Describing Instead of Evaluating

Many students tend to describe the problem in an essay rather than give a critical assessment of it. Essay writing is all about analyzing through the lens of existing literature and evidence. If you fail to provide your opinion, your essay is nothing more than a mere description of the issue.

For example, the description of an essay writing service doesn’t add much value for a person looking for writing help. At the same time, essayservice review with a critical assessment is indeed helpful. Try to provide critical ideas in your essays for them to look worthy and appealing.

Takeaway

It’s not mistakes that you should be afraid of. They are common for beginners as well as for professional writers. It matters, however, how you plan to avoid the errors and whether you want to learn from them.

 

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