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There's a technique that you can use to get better at essay writing: But first, we must look at the problems: 1st: Ideation, What are you gonna be writing about? And what are the points you are going to support? 2nd: Structuring, What is the order of what we're gonna be writing about? How do we structure it? Tips: 1. Increase your "elegance", read a lot of difficult books, develop that analysis skill and try and copywriting styles that you enjoy, because you're trying to find your own style that seems genuine to you. Most problems lie in the approach, either because of procrastination due to feeling overwhelming writing without planning it out in layers, as well as structuring your points. This is why it's important to not write in a linear approach as it's less efficient than doing it in layers. What are layers? Stage 1: Before we do layers, make sure that you understand the concept, because then it will make it MUCH easier to allow you to write your essays. A way to conceptualize is to look at the main themes and how do they connect with each other, it's similar to mind mapping connections between different concepts. And a pro tip, look into the author's background. The themes and examples used in the story will probably be inspired by the author's real-life experiences. Stage 2: Start with the questions, questions lead to points that allow you to structure the essay. Example I made: What is a phone? Where did it come from? What does the research say about it? How is it important? Why is it controversial? What are you stances on the topic? Now with this outline your brain doesn't have to be as scared because now you have a question that's easier to answer which you'll brain will naturally focus on. Stage 3: Answer the questions from the outline, let's say for a research article use some evidence to explain the text.

@lucass712

2 жыл бұрын

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@diana-ew7ct

2 жыл бұрын

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@rroig26

Жыл бұрын

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@405arunachalamv9

Жыл бұрын

The world needs more person like you, Thank you🙏

@irulan4047

Жыл бұрын

thanks

I almost stopped watching after point one because I thought: "well I know this, I should just start my paper". I am glad that I stayed for your second and third point. You blew my mind again. You are the god of learning!

@aseuvella6102

2 жыл бұрын

You must be German ot Dutch, not learning -> teaching

@richarddumoulin9269

Жыл бұрын

@@aseuvella6102 I think that Michaelk.2463 meant "you are the god of the topic of learning"

@surajkumarshrestha6874

Жыл бұрын

I think master is more suitable than GOD😂

I keep having anxiety when I think about the number of pages I need to write. I keep thinking, "how on earth am I going to write 12 - 15 pages about this research question?". I will most definitely give your tips a try.

@connorsimmons6018

Ай бұрын

Make sure your topic is broad enough with multiple subtopics to be able to address. Then flesh out each topic with subtopics, history, current events and how they relate

The "Ask Questions" part is so helpful. I didn't know I was missing it the whole time and I had a hard time fighting my procrastination because I didn't know how I'm going to organize all these arguments into an essay. Thank you for making this video

I’ve also noticed that spacing out the layers into smaller deadlines improves writing quality (and helps with manageability if you’re intensely busy). Example: Start now on a paper due in 2 weeks by setting checkpoints on concepts/research, questions, draft, and revisions/editing all the way to (or before) the deadline.

One thing that I've found that helps is to start with the bibliography and works cited, then go to writing the essay. This is because I always hate those bits, and if I'm doing the essay last minute (yes, I know that's what this video is partially designed to help prevent, but even so) I always forget to leave enough time to include them properly. If I wind up not using one of the works that I put on there in the beginning, I can just delete it. If I find another as I go on, adding one additional source isn't as intimidating as having to do a whole bunch at once. Some people would argue that this wastes time, but for me it's a method that just makes it easier to start.

@milansosef7151

Жыл бұрын

I highly recommend using a citation manager for that. It will save you a lot of time. Zotero, Mendeley and Endnote are all great I heard, but I personally like Zotero. You can generate a bibliography within seconds.

Your channel is a real gem 💎 thank you so much for the time and effort you put into these!! 💚

This is really a GEM available on KZread for free. Thanks man.....

@JustinSung

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

I'm definitely missing writing those questions, my writing process is complete chaos lol, I usually start with outlines and jotting down my thoughts but in the middle of my writing the logic/line of thinking I'm going for starts showing its flaws, so I start changing the order of my arguments, trying to put the puzzle together and waste so much time, going to try and really work on step 2

@ingore9021

2 жыл бұрын

Would you be interested in collaborating in some essay discussion?

My level of essay writing is somewhere of a 7th grade kid and lets just say that I'm older than that 😂 However this video helps to clarify a lot of fogginess I have when attempting to write an essay. Thank you very much!!! Subscribed.

Thank you for this great video. This is really the way that also works out for me. Defining the main points and questions at the beginning helps me maintain an organised way of thinking and dealing with the main theme more easily. That is also helpful when you work with a team.

Today, for the first time, I found an essay video useful, and stress-reducing. Thanks Justin for your advice.

Personal notes Step 1: conceptualise -> really understand the themes and the main theme and how do they connect/interact with each other Pro tip: read some background on the author Step 2: Write down questions that if answered will form your main arguments Example at 10:20 Step 3: Answer the questions-> after answering these questions will form your main arguments and support these with evidence

Great video. What I like is you are taking advice which is commonly available and then taking us through how to apply it specifically. That really helps. All time management article's talk about breaking up a big task into smaller steps. Yes. But how? Your approach is great

@JustinSung

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@lawonyinye7056

5 ай бұрын

@@JustinSung Hi, do you read all the research paper before you start writing? I find it difficult to write essays as I read because I just end up paraphrasing everything which also includes citing everything and I end up with no original thoughts in my essay. What do I do?

Ayyy I'm really happy to finally see another vid from your channel!! Production value on point, looking much better than the older vids

@beakless_duck

2 жыл бұрын

Oh this is pretty ironic - you mentioned that there's a lot less editing in your community post But I do prefer this style personally

@JustinSung

2 жыл бұрын

That's great to hear. Doing it this way is much faster and easier for me.

@KrazyFalcon

2 жыл бұрын

Ayo Beak?!

These 2 points are really working for me. I find that this method reduces my anxiety to start by a lot. Thank you so much

Great video. Appeals to me since I want to be a good writer. Also, this video is a lot more upbeat than the previous one. I was a big fan of your reserved nature in the videos, but this will work too! Keep it up.

Wonderful video, I really appreciate your work, Dr. Justin! :). You are entirely correct about the situation that occurs when trying to put topics together and find flow and degenerate into chaos - you described exactly the frustrations I was having with my papers. Thank you for sharing your words of wisdom.

Thanks for the tips!!! Have been procrastinating a lot and this helped give me the push required

@JustinSung

2 жыл бұрын

You got this!

Enormously helpful. Thank for uploading.

Thanks for the video, Justin! Very helpful for my extended essay.

This helped me so much structuring my final research paper! Thank you!

Wow your points and style of expressing and explaining them are amazing - thank you for helping me tackle my assignment in a much more relaxed and logical way! I've just subbed 👍🙌😍

Thank you Justin for such comprehensive and concise explanation. As non-native student who never got expose to writing an essay, still learning grammar and essay writing.. I'm curious how people elaborate their paragraph? Hope one day could attend ur course!

Amazing, I realized halfway through that I kinda did a shy attempt onto this at the moment of writing, but I never structured it, thanks for the tips

you are the instructor that everyone needs. thank you for these ideas

Great video! I'll give it a try

Summary (Notes to self) Way to think of it: - Think of way that points to each other for effective flow in the essay "Talk to the Topic" by: - asking questions - think of the author's perspective - research author - Made something meaningful to the Them Mimic an author (maybe your favorite)

What I do now is to do bullet points about the things that I wish to write about. Get down my ideas, and then organize the points and ideas to flow well. After that, writing the essay is easier.

Thanks for getting back.....

Absolutely loved this video. Thank you!

Thanks Justin, this was extremely helpful! Please could you also make a video about writing more elegantly? It would be incredibly useful to know the process for this.

I'm able to achieve a clear progress with my essay and go to sleep early tonight because of this. Thank you.

Thankyou! These tips are helpful. I was struggling for these past few days

Welcome back Justin 😎

Very interesting, I will definitely be trying to apply these concepts

Thank you so much. I was about to quit my first level 5 paper. It's helped so much. I wish I could do your course.

This is super helpful, thank you!!

Your relation based learning method surpass active recall and spaced répétions, you are the only one youtuber who are talking about it, can you do more video about it, I see your other channel: I can study or something like that, and I know there is already a lots of content about it: but I think this is so a large subject, that you can always create new content

@JustinSung

2 жыл бұрын

Yup I'll have a lot more about that

Thank you Justin. Very helpful 👌

Oh my Justin actually posted lol good video Justin

Your videos are very on-point

Hello, glad to see you're still posting.I have a question, does your IcanStudy course replace your finding gravity course? If not, what is the difference between the two courses?

@KrazyFalcon

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it does.

You are really good at this!

Hi thank you for your video! I will definitely take on board your tips the next time I have to write an essay!

@JustinSung

2 жыл бұрын

Come back to comment on how it goes too! :)

YOURE INCREDIBLE

Thank you, very helpful

as a clueless undergrad, this is godsend knowledge. thank you!

Phenomenal. Thank you

Your content is pure gold. Especially 12:10.

YOU HAVE RETURNED!

Where I live you have a test in which you gotta write a text in a specific topic they give you. However, in this test there's also 90 multiple choice questions and the biggest issue is the time constraints

When you have the notification button turned on but no notification for this video ;-; Anyways nice to see you upload again 👍🏼

I wonder if dr justin will talk more about writing. Very helpful. Thank you.🙂

I have flair in writing and fluidly communicating with the reader's perspective. But my writings shows knowledge gaps, it is not exhaustive and often too wordy. Ur headings/questions show that it was my incompetence and knowlege gaps which prevent me from writing well. I will try to fill those gaps while learning the topic.

Thank you this was very helpful

You have no idea how much stress that second point took off my shoulders. I went from taking 15 hours to write a 5 page paper to 10 for a 6 page paper!

thank you so much I have an assignment due and I was struggling to write my assignment

i actually am good at writing essays and writing in general but it takes a while to formulate my ideas into words which makes me wonder if i’m even a good writer at all. i had to write three essays over the summer and i wanted to get it over with as soon as possible but i found myself unable to put my ideas into words. and beginning this year i want to spend less time perfecting my essays because it’s too time consuming that way. i hope this helps

OMG i have been watching videos and reading book about writing, and this one helps the most! Would you suggest some book for further reading about writing? We need more about writing lol

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fav point (9:05 ) - Easier to extend on a list of questions rather than a list of points.

great video

Dear Justin, great tips! Can you please elaborate on why "Conceptualizing" should be the first step? Wouldn't it be enough to start with questions? In other words, would it be possible to do Question - Answer - Conceptualization?

Yeah right! issues on my part too

4:53 think more about getting a good understanding of the main themes and the main principles in the text that you're reading and especially how do those main themes connect and interact with each other

Jesus this is so good

Incredible

How do i write an essay that is not based on an arguement

I tried this for a philosophy essay that was worth 40% of the grade for that subject, ended up dodging/procrastinating a LOT on getting that all-important base level understanding... and then when I went about turning my plan into an essay I started feeling the need to change the answers I had previously wrote to my own questions... then the structure I had planned out started to collapse once I had begun to change things around. so it ended up coming down to the last five minutes and I didn't have any time to polish the rough spots... But I managed to snag an HD! So there's kinda something to it. Maybe?

Do you use mind map planning for essays, is there anything that helps with relevancy when you are normally learning associatively where there are so many interactions and links for keeping to word limits?

@JustinSung

2 жыл бұрын

The key here is good organisation through "chunking". Trying to find connections and relationships between individual ideas is going to be overwhelming. You need to group the ideas based on common themes or causes or reasons for importance (or any other logical grouping). This chunking is one of the hardest steps but the more you practice the easier it gets. Once you have clear chunks, finding how to express it concisely isn't too difficult. Mostly the problems are when you don't know how to get through each individual point and relationship concisely, which happens due to insufficient chunking.

Jordan Peterson also has a great manual for writing essays.

I hate writing essays and I'd usually finish the next morning which is very frustrating so I'm here

Nail on the head.. No. 1 is me.... right now....

The first point you made was also said by Kanye West during his Joe Rogan interview. George Lucas/ *Luk*e Skywalker

Hey, I have started practicing inquiry based learning (as you explained) a few days back, and I am not seeing any major improvements just yet (or maybe I am not using it correctly). Will I be able to get better at it if I keep on practicing it (I'm already starting to lose a bit of my motivation tbh)

@JustinSung

2 жыл бұрын

Yup it takes time and the way you need to follow quite a precise set of instructions. Many types of inquiry based learning do not work. The version I teach is very very very specific. If you need the step by step, join the course!

@prabhatgautam7888

2 жыл бұрын

@@JustinSung yeah I'd definitely be joining your course when I convince my father to give me the money to do so lol (I'm still in school, so)

Justin is possible for me to send you my essay so that check and correct my structuring and grammar?

maybe it would be better for us to have a visualisation

I was about to subscribe then you said committed. I have commitment issues 😂 jk loved the explanation ❤

My issue is that I am so slow with writing. I can realistically write 100 words an hour which for a postgraduate course and assignments is a lot of hours

Can someone please guide me with essay writing? First time writing a uni level essay. I am unsure how to start. Is it like writing a story all my ideas but using references to back up my creativity? Im sweating with this Essay writing

As a PhD student, I have to say that u the most PERFECT remedies to all my struggles in grad school

sooo good

7:40 why

10:05

Can you make some videos related to GRE verbal exam. How to approach it. Techniques etc

Hey can anyone share some thoughts/advices about how to write more elegantly? Any non English native speaker who has successfully done it? Sounds like a mission impossible for a non native speaker. 😂😂😂

*manic laughing* Algorithm recommended it a little late, I just submitted my essay...

the more questions, the better.)

Ooo

I don't hear any singing.

protip 2:14

@WIIID28

2 жыл бұрын

step 1 4:40

@WIIID28

2 жыл бұрын

protip 6:00

@WIIID28

2 жыл бұрын

step 2 : 9:07

@WIIID28

2 жыл бұрын

step 3: 13:07

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Can you make shorter videos where you summarise the points and just list what the advice is? It would be much more useful if you explained the techniques you use on a short example and get to the next point and it'd save me a lot of time. You talk too much in abstract terms, often pointing out the obvious, but rarely show the process.