A creative essay can be considered an opportunity in showing the extent of your brilliance in writing in a unique and interesting way.
 
What must be understood is that this type of paper isn’t thoroughly academic in nature however it isn’t lackadaisical either, rather when writing a creative essay you think of a unique point of view and build up on that idea and add in some unique twists and turns to keep readers reading. In some essay types readers often find themselves reading for the sake of reading in order to finish what they started.
 
In creative essays readers should have the feeling of wanting to hurry from one line to the next in order to find out what you’ve written and how the idea progresses. It is based on this that the following guide will elaborate on specific techniques you can use to create an essay with a certain degree of flare!
 
You don’t necessarily need to stick to stick with your main idea in a creative essay
 
In most essays it is often emphasized that you should stick with your main idea and build up on it, while this is true for almost all types of academic essays this isn’t necessarily true for creative essays. For example, at the start of a paper on abortion you could build up on its positive aspects then midway you could make a dramatic turnaround and emphasize the right to life of the unborn child in an overly dramatic way.
 
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Have you already given a sigh of relief after completing the conclusion part of your dissertation? Certainly, you have what to celebrate. Still, here is a little spoiler: make certain you do not forget to write a dissertation abstract. Paradoxically, this relatively brief part is placed at the beginning of your thesis, but should be written after you write everything else. You may want to check these recommendations for writing a winning dissertation abstract relatively quickly and continuing to enjoy yourself until your thesis defense.

Dissertation abstracts: main goal

A dissertation abstract is an all-inclusive summary of the whole project so that a very busy reader can look through it and understand at a glance what your dissertation is about and what are its main findings and ideas. A dissertation abstract usually consists of 250-300 words, but covers the most important points of your dissertation. It should be a powerful statement encouraging readers to look into the thesis itself.

Dissertation abstracts: what to include

The main elements to include in dissertation abstracts can vary from university to university and from subject to subject. However, the common elements usually found in dissertation abstracts are:

• purpose of the research;
• rationale for investigating this question;
• brief background;
• a hypothesis or research question(s);
• methodology used;
• findings (this is why you cannot write dissertation abstracts before the rest of the project: you do not know your findings before completing the research).
• implications;
• conclusions.

Dissertation abstracts: questions to cover

These are the main questions that a powerful dissertation abstract answers:

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Students frequently do not like assignments that combine reading and writing elements. However, these tasks can be twice as effective as those based on only reading or only writing activities. If you want to know how to complete reading and writing assignments quickly and effectively, you should check the best innovative techniques briefly discussed below.

Reading and writing connection

Reading and writing are similar processes because they require a clear understanding of the meaning of words. There is a strong relationship between these two processes in your mind. For this reason, the connection between reading and writing is the best tool for learning languages or any study material. However, making notes of the most important points when reading texts is only one technique that can be used to combine reading and writing.

Reading and writing techniques

Here are the innovative techniques that can be helpful for gaining the maximum effects from your reading and writing sessions:

1. “Talk to the author”. When reading the texts, imagine that you write a letter to the author of the text. Discuss the most interesting or confusing spaces, agree or disagree with the author.
2. “Personalizing content”. Whenever possible, create links between the concepts discussed in the text and your personal experiences, and write down these associations.
3. “Focused notes”. Find the most important themes or concepts in the text and write them down in the form of tables or mind maps.
4. “Summary/response writing”. Divide the page into two equal parts. In one part summarize what you have read, and in the second part respond to it.
5. “Genre switching”. Provide a creative response to what you have read by using a new genre. For example, after or when reading study materials, you can write an autobiography of one tooth, a romantic story of a triangle and a rhombus or draw a comics story summarizing a book.
6. “Flash cards”. You may want to use flash cards and write on them important pieces of information from study materials as you read them.
7. “Translations”. Use your own words to summarize what is written in your books. Deliberately avoid the words used by the author.
8. “Visual aids”. Write a detailed explanation for tables you find in the text or create tables or graphs for the most difficult passages.
9. “Visual to verbal projects”. Read a text, create a visual representation for it (graphs, tables, power point slides, posters) and then use this visual representation to give a speech.

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Can travel writing be as rewarding as all those sugar-coated advertisements promise? Is it the latest fad or your chance to live on permanent vacation? Travel around, write about your impressions and earn money for new trips… Do you have a suspicion that it is too good to be truth? Let’s look at what travel writing is and what it is not, to dispel most popular myths surrounding travel writers.

Travel writing: literature genre

Travel writing is a genre of literature describing real or imaginary places. Here are a few classical examples of most famous travel literature samples of all times. You must have heard of them, but probably you did not pay much attention to their genre:

• The Odyssey by Homer;
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway;
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain;
• the latest bestseller Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Your instructor may assign you an analysis of one of these or other travel fiction books. Numerous guide books and reviews are good travel writing examples as well. By the way, when your school teachers told you to write a traditional essay “How I Spent My Summer Holidays”, you frequently practiced travel writing.

Travel writing career

Today, good old travel writing is not only a literature genre, but also an attractive career option. Have you already received invitations to expensive travel writing courses promising stunning success and a glamorous life on permanent vacation? If not yet, you will surely receive them later. In fact, some people truly make a living as travel writers. However, they belong to a tiny minority.
 
Why nobody mentions thousands of travel writers who have negative income because most travel trade publications and magazines do not pay them in advance? Why not discuss those who receive hundreds of letters of rejection from different publications before deciding to give up? The supply far exceeds the demand. There are too many writers, but much fewer readers.
 
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The majority of senior students know how to critique books, articles, essays, or movies. Yet, many freshmen find this task quite difficult. This article will explain how to analyze various sources of information from a critical perspective. This skill will definitely come in handy for any student, because most academic assignments require some degree of critical evaluation.
 
How to Critique: Questions That You Should Ask
 
Papers including for instance a book critique or an article critique are often assigned to students as homework. As a rule, difficulties arise because students don’t know what kind of questions they need to ask and answer before writing their papers. So, you need to have the following questions in mind while reading books or articles that you intend to critique:

1. Does the title of the book or article reveal much about its content?
2. For whom is the book intended? Will these people find this book useful?
3. Does the author clearly state his or her ideas?
4. Are the examples offered by the writer relevant to the topic that he or she discusses? Are these examples accurate?
5. Does the author explain all terms and concepts that might be unfamiliar to intended readers?
6. What are the main premises of the authors’ arguments? Are these premises made explicit
7. Was this book useful to you? Did you learn anything new from it?

How to Critique: Dos and Don’ts of Academic Writing
 
There are several principles and rules of thumb that will help you when you write papers from a critical perspective. Although some of them may appear to be self-evident, they have been of great use to many students:

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