When you’re asked which English word is the longest, some chemical terms immediately come to your mind. No wonder, but they are not even truly English. Thus, this at first sight simple question turns out to be a hectic Google search with different pages giving different information. But what word has the biggest number of letters officially? Let’s find out. Continue reading
When you’re asked to write a persuasive essay (or in other words, an opinion essay) you have to identify for yourself what it should look like and what it is aimed at delivering to the reader. To assuage your doubts about that, we are here to tell you about the structure of the persuasive essay, tips on how to plan it and give some other useful hints that may come in handy in any writing. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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! Continue reading
Summer as a period of body and brain relaxation is at the same time the most productive season in a year for those students who have decided to devote their time to the creative output. However, it appears at once that some of us possess creativity as a natural ability while others are desperate about seeking inspiration. So, what should be done if good ideas don’t come to your mind or if you simply have a bad day? Let’s try to find it out. Continue reading
Quill as a writing instrument enabling people to cover paper with beautiful letters stopped capturing the world in 18th century. It happened when a man keen on penmanship came up with the idea of ‘metal quill’ and created a pen point. However, he failed to add the small split, so it splashed the ink all around. After this split was introduced some years later, cursive became more accurate. And finally handwriting has acquired its reputation of thin, spotless and quick craft owing to the invention of ball-point. So, today we have dozen of pens in our bag, but we can hardly demonstrate perfect writing skills, we’d rather say ‘my handwriting is awful, let me type this for you’. What happened to us? Let’s now look at history of handwriting to learn lots of interesting. Continue reading
