What can be done if you want to improve your essay? Revision, revision, and revision.

The Beauty of Revision

The revision stage of essay writing is my favorite. Do you know why? Because that is when you really begin to see the writing flourish, glow, and become a sparkly work of genius. When I began taking doctoral level courses, away from all the students I pursued my masters with – all the ones who waited until the night before to start writing their essays (so they said—I later found out they were lying), I felt free to do my own thing. I started working on my papers in October if they were due in December—and what I learned that semester is that a paper can become a paper worthy of publication in an academic journal, if you keep polishing, polishing, and polishing.

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