The start of each year is a great time to analyze your past year. You may have had some great memories and experiences, but you strive to develop and reach more goals in the next year. That is why almost everyone composes New Year resolutions, as they are a great motivational factor that keeps you pumped and productive. However, not many of those promises last even until the start of the semester or even your first original essay. So, what is the secret behind writing and keeping those promises? This article will tell you not only of some ways to tackle your New Year resolutions, but also how to be realistic and fruitful, promising only those things that you are definitely going to accomplish.

We are constantly surrounded by text. If you look around, most of the signs, advertisements and posters have informational text in them. We should know how to compose e-mails in order to look well-educated and reliable, and, of course, we have to be aware of the basics of completing even harder work: writing any type of the paper we were assigned. Most of the papers are essays, and even though there is plenty of types and approaches on how to write them, there are always some general, but effective hints, too.

Why would your teacher want to you to compare two books? Well, first of all, the fact that you can compare them means you have read them. The second ingredient to the comparison soup is the ability to analyze the content and know it well enough to use the quotes or mentioning of the scene as the evidence. The last reason is to see how you can put your thoughts into a logical flow and how well you can manage to convince your reader that your opinion is correct (if such thing as opinion can be correct, at all).

It is not a rare situation when you are in college and you need to compete with someone in writing essays, making presentations or even achieving better grades. In fact, we are forced to compete with a lot of people probably since childhood, and surely way into adult life. Personal and professional competition can make you awfully tired. Sometimes you feel like giving up your work just for the sake of lessening this pressure on yourself. However, you should remember that there are healthy types of competition that will be good for you. This article will explain you some main reasons for competing in class and practical advice on how to keep it civil and fruitful for you.

Ever since kindergarten, children are often compared amongst themselves by the grown-ups in their lives: the teachers and the parents. Even if the teacher does not outright say that Jeremy is a better speller than Rosie, the system of grades does it for him. School and then college can be a stressful environment for everyone who cannot handle the competitive atmosphere well. Sometimes you might feel jealous of your classmate, whether you are friends with him or not, for his excellent grades and academic achievements, even though you have used the same effort, while not gaining the expected praise or result. You have handed in a non-plagiarized essay that you have spent a lot of time to research, and the teacher can still give you a bad grade, and praise the work of someone else. How to cope with being overwhelmed with jealousy?