#essay stuff

[thedeathofthelamb]

What sounds interesting?

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Voting ended onJun 7, 2025

maybe none, so don't vote lol

[seizeyoursalad]

Make a tutorial on how to write essays

I'm 20 and I don't know how help

OH MY GOD IVE WAITED YEARS FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS

anyways, i really wanted to depart some of my wisdom so here we go. Im going to assume essays for assignments and not college applications first, but if you want other advice, im ready and willing to depart more so-

Step one-half: Give yourself plenty of time. You CANNOT write good essays all in one night, you can't, not unless you're a top-tier god at bullshitting. You want three days minimum.

Step one: Argument. Essays center about what you want to say, if you have nothing to say and nothing that caught your attention, move directly on to the next step, but if you have something that interests you, write it down immediately. A sentence, a question, a statement, doesn't matter, write it down as soon as possible this is from someone that has suffered from amnesia immediately on walking out of class. Find your argument and stick with it.

Step two: Quotes. School essay assignments suck ass, but if you're only allowed to take quotes from the stuff you've read in class, you're going to want to start there. Scan for whatever has anything to do with your argument, from proving it wrong to proving it right, collect the quotes first because that's clearly what every single essay needs work with. If you have more free-roam with sources, then its research first, a whole fuckload of research, it sucks, yeah, but JSTOR and Internet Archive save lives. Check out your libraries too because those are life savers. Ctrl+F will help you find keywords and the sort, find PDFs of your textbooks or skim through them, point is, COLLECT THE QUOTES. Do not highlight them or mark down pages, WRITE THEM DOWN. PUT IT IN BOLD, IN WRITING. This will get you thinking already on what to write. You'll want anything from between 10-20 quotes, more than that might be too much. We're talking about a 7-8 page essay.

Step three: Split it up. By now we have a mess of quotes and an argument, perfect to split up. Ideally, we want 3+ sections for a paper, but first read through what you have. Organize your quotes first, these will be the structure for your paper. You cant prove what you don't have evidence for. Organize your quotes by what they have in common, what they center on. This is kind of ambiguous but it also means a lot of free space to do what you want. Name these sections that you sort these quotes under, these are your mini-arguments. Your defenses to your argument. The thesis of your sections. Every section of your essay should have a mini-thesis, or a point you're trying to make.

Step four: With the basis of everything now under your fingertips, write your introduction. Your outline is your introduction in fancy words because it should cover everything you're going to cover in your paper in half a page or less. This does not mean two or three sentences.

Step five: Rest. Congrats, you've finished an outline, now go take a nap.

Step six: Fill in the blanks. You have the idea and contents of the paragraphs already, fill in the blanks and connect the quotes to each other while connecting it to your main arguments. DO NOT worry about how long your sentences are or your paragraphs, this is a first draft, your goal is to make it exist first. You can make it perfect later. I recommend doing this either all in one sitting OR one part at a time, this way you won't lose your author's voice. Getting into the groove of writing is hard and you want to keep a steady tone throughout most of it. If you're going to stop, stop at a junction, that way it'll be less obvious that you stopped. For the conclusion, you just want to restate your argument and have a statement with what you believe. Briefly go over the points you've covered. End with the same energy you started with, brings the whole thing to a finale.

Step six: Rest again. First draft is done. Do not think about it.

Step seven: Read it out loud. Pretend you're a passionate professor in a movie, a lecturer leading a revolution, put some passion into it and read it out loud. Record yourself via audio or video in case you feel the need to improvise, then you'll be able to add it into your paper later. Commas mean slight pauses, periods mean longer pauses and downwards voice inflections. If you stumble on a sentence, go back and read it again, if it sounds off, you need to reword it but do it verbally so you can find out what exactly was wrong. Once you work out all the kinks and it sounds good to your ears read all out loud, your second-draft is done.

Step eight: Rest again, not too long though so you lose the passion.

Step nine: Have someone else read it out loud. Have AI read it out loud. This is one of the only times I will condone AI. It's a fresh eye that will be able to spot the proofreading errors because we are proofreading now. This is proofreading. Missing commas, missing periods, misspelled words will be pointed out to you immediately. If you spot something, you don't need to stop and fix it immediately, maybe circle it or the sort but don't stop or you'll lose your focus. If it seems like a mistake, stop and read it OUT LOUD to yourself. If it still sounds right, dismiss it.

Step ten: Check formatting, citations, etc.. Make sure you spelled your name right, that the title is a hooker. Reread your introduction and conclusion.

AND CONGRATS DEAR YOU JUST WROTE AN ESSAY, NICE.

anyways, if you have any other questions, dont hesitate to send asks or comments, i will be watching this post indefinitely for any problems that might come up, but thanks and good luck on all of your essays!!!

[balkanlila]

could you guys associate me with a hunger games character and tell me why do you feel that way, I'm trying to decide something

[justskulkingaround]

Well, I need 10 pages, and I’m on page 4, so that’s good

[puricutie]

transition, persuasive, & descriptive words

Continuing idea/event

Consequently

Clearly, then

Furthermore

Additionally

In addition

Moreover

Besides that

In the same way

Following this (noun) further

Pursuing this (noun) further

In the light of the… it is easy to see that

To change line of reasoning (Counterargument)

However

On the other hand

Yet

Nevertheless

On the contrary

(beware of the “but”)

Opening a paragraph

Admittedly

Assuredly

Certainly

Granted

No doubt

Obviously

Of course

To be sure

True

Undoubtedly

Unquestionably

At this level

In this situation

Final point (Conclusion)

Lastly

Therefore

Hence

In final analysis

Indeed

Persuasive words

Apparently

Bodly

Clearly

Definitely

Evidently

Obviously

Unmistakably

Visibly

[puricutie]

argumentative writing

5Cs

(Minor) Claims

Context

Concrete (Data, evidence, detail)

Commentary 1 (Explain)

Commentary 2 (Analysis, connect to thesis)

Claims — C4

Clear

Concise

Controversial

Complex

[silverjojo08]

Same anon. Thanks for the answer. Well, this is actually that the whole "not blood related" is because in japanese culture, people are considered to be related strictly through blood. Which is why so many anime and dating simulator have a "actually you aren't related" and that asian folks doesn't view calling someone "brother or sister" as committement to anything. This is because in japan and other asian country, the adoption system is completely different. When someone is adopting a child, we call it a "special adoption" while a regular adoption is when a father in law "adopts" his son in law, not as his child, but as his heir. It's called the koseki system. This leads to a rather hostile view on adopting children since it's like accepting a stranger in your house and this mentality is still very present. For example, if you go to the jpn side of the Fates fandom, they really don't view it as pseudo incest that Corrin can marry the Nohrian or Hoshidan royals. I am not defending that, merely explaining why the trope exist. This only means that to IS, Nel isn't related to Alear however. So she bonding with Veyle wasn't seen as engaging her and Alear or Veyle into being related at all. In fact Nel states that she isn't related to them in their support. Also, Anna never mentions marrying Alear when she grows older, that's a misinformation. In the japanese version of the S support she offers Alear a gift as a sign of friendship.

I understand that some S support can be off putting but in reality they can all be explained by how they come from. Anna being an S support is only so that the younger player can give something to a character their age. As for Nel, well I explained it previously but also, the notion of mutliversal sibling doesn't exist since multiverse doesn't exist either. I get why you'd find it weird but unlike the S support, the fact Nel (and Rafal) are optional romance means they aren't related else they wouldn't have allowed it. After all, they didn't do it with Veyle. If Nintendo greenlit this, this means that in the originating country it was seen as ok. Like IS allowing you to marry two cousin only comming from how in japan and many other place in the world, cousin marriage is legal.

It kinda got long, I am sorry. I totally understand where you are comming from, but as I said, while I don't agree with IS's decision, I can at least understand where it does come from

Thanks for the response. This is a lot of cultural context stuff that I don't truly have any rebuttal to because, yeah it's not my culture and I don't want to overstep.

I do think there is still an inconsistency in the internal logic of things. For the game to present Lumera+Alear and the hounds as family and then not treat Nel, Rafal, and the main game dragons the same still feels weird to me in a way that intellectually doesn't fit. I still do feel that it's probably a product of laziness in that they didn't want to spoil Alear's parentage which means the supports were handcuffed and couldn't speak as plainly.

Ultimately tho it is what it is I suppose? I won't get too worked up over it at this point. But it's an aspect of the writing that bugs me.

[silverjojo08]

Regarding your essay on Engage, about the bit of how Alear S supporting Nel ruins the "found family theme". I don't really agree. Yes they share different version of the same father and have similar trauma however Nel was in love with her Alear. Even if she sees our Alear differently, she still can't view them as a sibling because of this. And I don't think using Sombron knowing the source of trauma she was to him is a good idea since she and Alear tried to distance themeselves from him. Veyle is a different story, she is Alear's actual sister and she still see Sombron as family, so even if Nel is from another version of Sombron, it would make sense for her as she keep seeking for a way to compensate the absence of her siblings. That's not Nel's case. She actively avoid such relationship. I also don't think they were trying to go "Nel and Rafal are part of Alear last siblings" because there are things that are portrayed as different from the early DLC : Sombron being born in Elyos in the DLC world and having a different goal, Sombron refering to his children as failure rather then defect, the fact all children are born as twins, etc. And above all, Nel S support isn't canon in the slighest. Yet the story don't really try to tease a siblinghood between her and Alear, unlike for Veyle. You could argue it's because of the S support they did it that way, but this lack of siblinghood and feeling of kinship is imo the reason why I don't think it's damaging the family theme.

Also slight side note but Anna's S support wasn't romantic in the japanese version as well.

(I have not gotten all the associated flavor texts on Nel's interactions and comments through the reveal chapters of the main story yet, so this is going to be based on having played the dlc and done the supports. This might be long and possibly redundant with my essay lol. Also typing on phone rather than computer, so sorry for typos and bad grammar.)

I think having Nel be in love with her world's Alear leads to an oddity. It doesn't add much outside of providing friction within the dlc itself, and given that Nel DOES come to a kinship of sorts with Veyle in their support convos despite the multiversal differences, I find it extremely off-putting that the writers would not play off the concept and do something similar with Alear.

I do think they truly just did not want to address how it would come across for functional purposes because the support chain could be unlocked at any time before the main story reveal of Alear's biological parentage, but this leads to (imo imo imo, all this is in my opinion of course but I don't want anyone to feel like I'm coming for them) just truly uncomfortable implications that aren't touched on at all. Alt Alear's manner of referring to our Alear which happens as an introductory scene to the overarching theme of the dlc as well also makes this feel disturbing since we're meant up see the Alears as twins to parallel Nil and Rafal (who also were not quite twins).

S supports might not be canon, but the ability to S support your multiversal sibling and have it be romantic still feels insane (perhaps this is the comic fan in me since interacting with multiversal counterparts happens many times in the Big Two™ of DC and Marvel). This is a flaw with both Nel and Rafal, but with Nel it feels worse since her feelings for alt Alear are unavoidably a massive part of her character.

And I cannot look at this all in a vacuum of just this one installment. Fire Emblem does this weird "incest but not really except actually yeah" kind of stuff just way too frequently for me to give them a pass on the implication here as well. I'm not a Japanese speaker but the translation of that Anna S support felt like it was setting up a "wait until you're older" which is gross to me. Perhaps there is some nuance I'm missing like it being more of a joke than a serious thing, but I'm not ok with it.

Anyway I feel like this ended up being really rambly and redundant and probably does not change your mind or anything, but I do hope at least you understand where I'm coming from at the very least.