Essay Writing Sources for Students

Talk about uncanny. It's getting near the time for college and university students to begin planning for the upcoming academic year, and for professors to plan their lessons and write lectures. Do you get the feeling we've all been here before? So before déjà vu sets in, I thought I would get a jump on the panic that inevitably rears its ugly head by offering some writing resources for student scribblers.

As a teacher, it still shocks me that so many students get a place at university without being able to form an argument, structure their thoughts, and in many cases, even string two coherent sentences together. Many are even downright surprised when introduced to topics such as 'essay structure', or 'writing introductions.' They are hesitant to move from the comfort and simplicity of the '5 paragraph essay' to a more rigorous form of analytical writing (anal WHAT writing? I hear echoing in my head). What is more distressing is that some students just don't care. Their goal is to scrape through with minimum effort and be done with it. They usually sit droopy-eyed in the back, head cocked rather extraterrestrially so as to keep one eye on the front and the other on their thigh which apparently has some communication device stuck to it which sends messages of how bored they are to their universe of friends.

Ah yes; can't wait.