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Each time students are assigned an essay, they have the same question, “How to start it?” No matter whether it is an argumentative or comparative essay, the general process is the same and takes not much time; they start picking up ideas from the books or the internet, then organize them and compose the paragraphs. It’s also not difficult to summarize the whole stuff after all. But when it comes to the beginning, you’d better stay away when a student deals with it. Now, let’s see, what can be done about that and whether it is really that complicated. (more…)

When you hear somebody asking about the most commonly used words (be those nouns or articles) you tend to firstly think it over but then it appears quite a vague issue. How can we know that? Is there a person who analyzes all the literary heritage and our everyday conversations and then counts all English words? Otherwise, it is impossible to tell for sure how often we use this or that word, isn’t it? Actually, it is possible and we shall discuss here what the language corpus is and how interesting it may be. (more…)

Sooner or later, we all face the terrible word “summary” in our studying program. Often, this writing activity is given to students as an assignment for summer. Eventually, when you come close to the process of summarizing, you can’t always put your finger on what to start with. Thus, here we’re going to answer such questions as “How to start a summary?”, “What to put in the summary?”, “What structure does the summary have?”, etc. Let’s proceed! (more…)