1. Answer the Question. This is the first and most important suggestion. Answering the wrong question is a common mistake made by students. Unfortunately, it can be a real disaster for the grade you get in an exam. Make sure you understand what the examiner wants; it is highly advisable to refer back to the question…

Literary legend, George Orwell wrote an essay in 1946 called Politics and the English Language as something of a cure for the state of writing in publications of the day. PickTheBrain.com brings to light 5 rules from said essay that will bring out your writing from the pack. 1. Never use a…

Back in high school I deplored writing bibliographies. All the formatting rules drove me up the wall and I never understood the need for a standard of referencing books. How I wish OttoBib was available back then. This handy little browser app takes the ISBN [International Standard Book Numbers] of the books you want to reference and…

Reading an essay from a college freshman many years ago, I came across a sentence that baffled me — it referred to “ingesting an orange.” I crossed out “ingest,” wrote “eat,” and wondered why anyone would’ve written otherwise. At the time, it didn’t occur to me that my student had very likely started with “eat,”…

Phil Renaud has observed a relationship between font faces and essay mark. He used past 52 papers that he had written throughout his university study, and he grouped all those essays into different category of font faces and calculated at the average marks. Surprisingly, essays with Serif font has better marks than with Sans-Serif font:…