Category Archives: education

20+ Best Tips on Time Management for College Students [Shared by Experts]

October 11, 2019

Time management skills – a set of abilities allowing to use the time to your advantage and control it between specific activities. These skills include but are not limited to goal-setting, planning, organization, prioritization, communication, and stress management. When mastered, they make you smarter and more successful, influencing your overall performance and life.

Time management for college students is a perpetual problem.

On the one hand, they study alongside employment and try to get around to their families and kids. On the other, they are ESL students struggling with English grammar and spending hours on tasks their native-speaking peers cope in minutes. But all of them are seeking a magic button to push and defeat that everlasting lack of time and tight deadlines.

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“I Paid for My Essay.” How Not to Hurt Academic Integrity with Writing Websites

November 3, 2017

Last updated: October 2019

Academic integrity is compliance with the ethical policy of academia, a moral code students demonstrate when following the rules of their institutions and staying honest in the academic setting.

“Whaaat? A paper writing service providing with integrity definition? You must be kidding!”

Nope, it’s not a cruel joke.

It’s about a delicate balance between cheating and working with writing websites for assistance and educational purposes. And about proof that it’s possible to ask professionals for writing help and yet stay academically honest.

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How to Write a Strong Conclusion for Your Essay

July 7, 2017

Last updated: November 2019

How to conclude an essay:

Restate the thesis by making the same point with other words (paraphrase).
Review your supporting ideas.
For that, summarize all arguments by paraphrasing how you proved the thesis.
Connect back to the essay hook and relate your closing statement to the opening one.
Combine all the above to improved and expanded conclusion.

Ever wondered how to conclude an essay?

For some students, it’s far from the most challenging part of essay writing. They find it more challenging to choose a good topic for an essay, state a thesis, or write a clear essay outline. But our reader Emily has knocked spots off them all when asked to share tips on how to write a conclusion for your essay to impress teachers and help you get an A!

Don’t worry, Emily, you are not alone.

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51 Ideas on How to Improve the US Education System

April 23, 2017

Last updated: April 2017

Navigation:

→ South Korea education performance [Infographic]
→ Expert roundup: how to improve the education system in the US?
→ From the student’s point of view

Back in 2014, Pearson released their Learning Curve. This education assessment service gathered the information of The Economist Intelligence Unit, did extensive desk research, and interviewed the world’s education leaders to report each nation’s ability to prepare students for the modern workforce.

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How to Generate College Essay Ideas Like Crazy

December 5, 2016

Last updated: December 2019

Before proceeding to college essay ideas, here’s the idea definition:

An idea is a formulated thought, opinion, understanding, or picture in your mind. Also, it can be a suggestion as to a course of action.

Idea generation is what you do all the time. You generate thoughts in mind, with or without intent. When in school or college, you need to work on project-based learning ideas, classroom ideas, creative school project ideas, etc.

It’s not a problem: most creative project ideas come to you through discussions or brainstorming sessions with teachers and peers.

The problem appears when you need to come up with college essay ideas.

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