🔥 8 irreplaceable resources and programs for writing an essay in English, verified by personal experience.
1. Starting to write an essay, first of all, you need to refresh your knowledge of the rules and methods of writing in English. From open sources, the well-known resource The Purdue Writing Lab from the university of the same name will be the most useful. Here you will find simple and clear recommendations for improving writing for any level and purpose.
2. It is sometimes difficult for a foreign student to choose bright and capacious adjectives (and other parts of speech) in order to express his thoughts as accurately and colorfully as possible.
Thesaurus.com online service helps you find synonyms and definitions for English words. Using it, however, I always recommend checking whether you understand the "usability" of a word in English correctly - the fact is that English words are often not completely equivalent in meaning or shade to their counterparts in their native language. For such a check, I use the following two resources, taking into account the context of the use of words in English.
3. Online translator ReversoContext - the basic free version allows you to see the use in the text and the translation of words and phrases in context, in order to clarify the semantic connotations that are often inaccessible to google.translate, and even more so to "linear" translators.
4. The second tool is Youglish - this site creates a cut of YouTube videos using the nominal word or phrase that interests you. With its help, it is easy and quick to understand whether you are using a certain word or expression correctly in a semantic context.
5. The age-old problem of non-English-speaking students, and especially Russian-speaking ones, is the use of the passive voice in narration. We were taught that this way the text looks more solid and academic. In English (except for highly academic texts), this is not accepted, it is recommended to write in the first person, especially in the process of writing essays and other documents for application. To track your "passive voice" use the passive voice checker .
6. The finished text must be checked for literacy. The best way is to use Grammarly , a program and browser plug-in that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to check English texts. Surprise, but the most powerful English literacy tool in the world was created by programmers in Kyiv, Ukraine!
7. An alternative to the latter is the Grammar Girl website and blog, which is also a very useful resource for checking the literacy of the English text, especially for those who want to not only check the finished text, but figure out how to write correctly and why.
8. As a final chord, I recommend running your text through Readable - a program for checking the "readability" of your English text. If he gets a low score, then something is definitely wrong. This is sufficient reason to subject it to a more scrupulous check, perhaps with the involvement of living professionals. Contact 🤓
And, of course, all kinds of versions of 🤖 ChatGPT for essay rewriting ‼️ However, be careful, some universities introduce policies for checking essays for the contribution of artificial intelligence and may reject your application due to its use.
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