Comments on: 11 Rules for Essay Paragraph Structure (with Examples)

By: Morokwane Lebethe

Morokwane Lebethe — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:49:35 +0000

Thank you. This helped a lot.

By: Ibrahim Muhammad

Ibrahim Muhammad — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 22:31:12 +0000

This is wonderful and helpful, all I say is thank you very much.
Because I learned a lot from this site, own by chris thank you Sir.

By: Chris Drew

Chris Drew — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 01:04:39 +0000

Hi Clarence,

Thanks so much for your comment! I love to hear from readers on their thoughts.

Yes, I agree that it’s incredibly disheartening.

But, I also think students would appreciate hearing the truth.

Behind closed doors many / most university teachers are very open about the fact they ‘only have time to skim-read papers’. They regularly bring this up during heated faculty meetings about contract negotiations! I.e. in one university I worked at, we were allocated 45 minutes per 10,000 words – that’s just over 4 minutes per 1,000 word essay, and that’d include writing the feedback, too!

If students know the truth, they can better write their essays in a way that will get across the key points even from a ‘skim-read’.

I hope to write candidly on this website – i.e. some of this info will never be written on university blogs because universities want to hide these unfortunate truths from students.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Regards,
Chris

By: CLARENCE HARMON

CLARENCE HARMON — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:16:52 +0000

Hello there. I noticed that throughout this article on Essay Writing, you keep on saying that the teacher won’t have time to go through the entire essay. Don’t you think this is a bit discouraging that with all the hard work and time put into your writing, to know that the teacher will not read through the entire paper?