Essays are like the basilisks of real life... you can't look 'em in the eye, or they'll kill ya.

You literally teach more than my teacher teaches in 100 hours

You're the reason I went back to college. You made it seem simple. I was 19 years old working full time in a lumber yard. Now I am 20 taking 22 credits a quarter! Thanks YesReneau!

Honestly, you are one of the most creative and intelligent KZfaqrs I've ever come across! Ignore the hate, Love you and your style of presenting in videos.

who else is worrying about their essay so they searched up how to write the perfect essay?

thesis="this is" the answer mind=blown

When you are only 12, but already thinking about my future college

Never..ever..end an essay with the 'it was all a dream'

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I honestly love your radiating personality. bish can we just be bffs already?!

Excellent video ! I presented it in my Literature class and everyone loved it! I love how you get straight to the point. Please make more videos like this.

I am a junior in high school and this video has answered the questions I've always had about the structure of an essay for so long! The outline is so clear now, it's like a whole new world!! Seriously I love your humor- it's hard to make an educative video be enjoyable and you absolutely nailed it! Subscribed :)

Thank you!!! I am a 50+ community college student. This video is so helpful for me right now. I hope to see more videos like this from you. For my learning style, you are making it easier to understand and learn. I will follow your channel to help me obtain my AA. Degree :).

I just submitted my Harvard application noooooooo I wish I saw this before 😭😭😭

Watching this video for my fourth time. I am writing a scholarship contest essay and I will update how this helps me! I am really frustrated and tired but I can do this! 😬👍

everytime I watch her videos, I'm like "damnn, she reminds me of someone." and I just realized you are literally the non fiction Spencer from PLL

just found the motivation to finish my essay

Do you ever have trouble with timed writing? I do and I'm scared that it will hurt my testing scores

I DONT KNOW WHAT IS MORE PERFECT YOUR ESSAY SKILLS OR YOUR PERSONALITY 😭😭 you are amazing!

Hi! Im currently at 9th grade, and i just joined an Essay Writing Contest in celebration of Teachers Month, and i've used your advices into writing mine. Hopefully after three years of trying, i can finally win this contest. At my First try in 2017 i'd placed as 3rd which gave me the determination to join again in 2018. Suddenly i had unplaced. So With your lovely advice, i really do hope to win this time. Lets look forward for the result this coming October 4. But for now, i would like to thank you because you helped me a lot for improving my essay writing. Thank you againn!🤗❤️

Y'all thank you so much!You literally saved my life, and your tips helped me a lot!Love your channel so much; keep up the good work! :)

I literally have an exam from home in 10 minutes

“The ostracized and infantilized individual felt underutilized.” I think that’s a perfect example of what you were saying about superfluously using big words to sound smart. Good point and good video!

I have not attended school in years and now I am getting ready to start college. However, I been very concerned with how I am going to do on the essays. This is very helpful. My teachers never explained writing essays the way you do. Very intelligent!

2nd time watching this... A year later has actually passed by. Update? I'm still stupid.

When you're only 14 but already worrying about your future while others go out at midnight to go smoking and drinking.

I wish you were my teacher you explain things so much better than anyone ive ever seen its summer and I need to catch up for next year so even if you don't see this thank you.

I like how you help people with these things it's hard to them but you help us with them

You should do a video on how to stop procrastinating. It's winter break and my ass has 2 essays to write in 5 days. First essay has to be 3 pages and the other has to be 8 pages. I'm screwed..

4:50 Use your Weaknesses to show your Strengths !!!" Hilarious

i saw this a year ago along with your essay tht got you into harvard and i knew i would come back to it and here i am a year later at the end of my junior year trying to write my personal statement

I'm a freshmen in high school and I want to become a Cardiothoracic surgeon. My goal is to either get into Harvard or John Hopkins. Your videos and you in general very much inspire me and give me helpful tips into doing my best in school and just not giving up. Thank you so much!

i guess i just needed someone cool on youtube to reinforce whatever my teachers have said to finally want to do it lol

This shows up in my recommendation AFTER I wrote the damn thing

It’s also helpful to make a title after you finish the essay. Because then you can find a word or phrase that summarizes it better

I'm pretty sure my teacher has already taught me this, but it's way better hearing it from you for some reason.

practice doesn't make perfect if your not practicing perfectly

WHERE WAS THIS VIDEO WHEN I WAS WRITING MY PERSONAL STATEMENTS? lol

Yeah for the first time I found a good teacher who actually focuses on the topic and not for increasing their Subscriber count 🤷‍♂️

I wrote a perfect memoir, a near perfect paper, and even 2 perfect essays this past year bc of this video. Thanks for the help!

"don't have a sissy handshake" didn't expect to hear that from a recent Harvard graduate.

Thesis? More like "Thisis" amirite? :D

You only know how to tell it or else everyone is not doing fine .. love the way u speak.. ....

I fell in love at, "an essay is the real life basilisk." 7:50

clicked like before the video started playing ❤ fave youtuber

Practice makes perfect !!!! This is the best!!!

honestly u r the best . i have secured 1st prize in essay writing with your tips

So now I am starting to write my first english comment in here................thanks for your encouragement. It is really a spirited speech. Thanks so much

I have the problem in that I want to put all my points across. Consequently I ramble; then I do not finish.

Just a question. How do you get your hair like that? It’s gorgeous.

Friday night and you are not thinking in party anymore . You are thinking how to writte a good essay.

Until about 5th grade (when my teachers told me to stop) I always started essays with questions. I was so weird

I copy and paste essays, and put it in an generator to re-write it so it looks legit.

she keeps popping up in my recommended

I absolutely agree with writing an outline. Our minds don't like to declutter that much. Taking the few minutes to organize your thoughts (instead of dumping it all to a pile) before you start writing usually helps. At least it does for me.

When your 11 and are watching this because you're bored and the best you can come up with is learning to write an essay and finish doing it

extremely useful and original. Thank you

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I have some writing assignments on hand right now, this is so helpful

For my first two college essays, I received a 5+ and a 5- out of a 6 point grading scale. I'll definitely apply these tips when I go back! The introduction takes me longer than a body paragraph. I just can't "briefly" summarize my main ideas without giving too much away, so sometimes I type it once I'm done.

You are as beautiful as a blazing sunset And as brilliant as heavenly sight of light

Can you do a high school advice video?

I am a student from NLCS and the school is showing your video all the way to korea

You would think that why do I have a question, but I always make mistakes in expressing my feelings in a sentence. My teacher says that I have a great idea and concept but I am unable to express them

I honestly love you so much

Hey Taylor! Not to spam your channel or anything but it's me lol your cousin. hi. I FINALLY started my KZfaq Channel! I didn't know how to contact you with you being in Paris and what not. SEE YOU AT CHRISTMAS

I think this really only applies to 2 scenarios: 1. If you're writing for you English teacher and 2. If you're a professional writer already and writing for a legit publication/website. For regular schoolwork, and more importantly, FOR EXAMS, I found that my teachers appreciated the exact opposite. It was good to use nice words from time to time but maybe a handful (2-3 per paragraph max) and that was to really emphasise a point, like if you really wanted to show how well you understood a certain concept, you would use a fancy word with a very specific meaning that shows clearly to the teacher that you're not messing about and you know precisely what that term means. But other than that, teachers (and examinators) really really like it if you stick to very common sentence structures. By having the common filler words and structures you make it so that whoever is marking your work needs to focus less and concentrate less on the fancy words and unconventional sentence structure that you're using and more on the actual points you're getting towards your grade . This is extra important in exams where you don't have time to think and you need to keep your Points-Per-Line super high due to the time limit. If you can develop your own "cliches" and set of swiss army sentences you can mentally spend less time thinking about how you're writing and more about what you're writing. It honestly doesn't matter if you structure every single argument and start every single sentence the exact same way in an exam as long as it's competent. When it comes to intros and conclusions, my teachers and my experience have always led me to one conclusion: if you're not saying anything, don't bother. If you're not using your intro and conclusions to answer anything, cut them out. You can make your first paragraph have 1-2 sentences introducing your argument, or you can have an intro paragraph where you give all the definitions if you need to tick off "knowledge" points in an exam/homework, but don't waste time with "I'm going to talk abo-", THEY KNOW, THE TEACHER F***ING KNOWS WHAT THE ESSAY IS ABOUT. Same with conclusions, if all you're gonna do is restate what you just said, keep as a 1 sentence max. If you're gonna develop everything you've said in order to make a nuanced argument (what you'll need to do in Business, Economics, History, Sociology, and all that) then you can have it a bit longer. The hook thing is useless, you get NO POINTS FOR IT, you're wasting your precious time on it. The counter-arguments thing is 100% legit tho. Whoever marks your exam LOVES seeing that you know more than what the question asks at face value. If you prove that you understand the limitations of your argument and you can show nuance rather than simple black and white, they will cum all over your essays. But from my experience, it's better if you always keep doing a back and forth yes-no-yes-no-yes-no to keep showing how much you know and how nuanced and smart you are. Also, keep re-answering the question at the end of every paragraph, if only by adding a few words like "thus this proves that blah blah blah blah" By doing these things, you'll save yourself the maximum amount of time when doing homework and writing in class, meaning you can spend more time shooting your friends in the face across the internet and passing really stupid notes around to distract your classmates you are still writing while you look like an absolute badass for finishing early and getting an A. But more importantly, it will guarantee that you'll finish your exams. Now, I'm not sure how the exams work in the states, but here in the UK, (and this also applies to whoever is taking their IGCSEs or A-Levels) you have barely any time to finish and I only managed to finish my A2 for econ and history with maybe 3 or 4 minutes left while everybody else failed to finish and this was all because they spent their time on unneccessarily complex wording and intros and all that jazz. Also, if you're wondering, I did get straight A* in my A-Levels and GCSEs, with the slight exception of my GCSE business studies were I got an A.

How about whatever the hell a synthesis paper is? I have little to no idea what I'm doing with it and the google is little to no help. This is the best essay writing video I've watched!

Please can you make more videos about applying to Harvard, Harvard financial aid, how to get a scholarship

I wish you would’ve been my teacher!!! 😃

You just answered like a 100 Creative writing questions I've had for 10 years in one video!! U rock!❤️

I just found this channel while trying to write and essay on a movie and book comparison and you helped me a lot thanks😀 “use your weaknesses to show your STRENGTHSSS” lol my favorite part

I thought she was saying "hi I'm yes or no" hehe

why am i even here? i know i wont get in lmao

Your voice is literally stunning

In grade three, I made my favourite opening sentence to introduce the new topic I had to bring into my research essay; Okay, so I'd like you to sit back and relax while I tell you some cool panda facts! That one sentence impresses me to this day that I wrote that without copying it from anywhere since I am a year younger than everyone else in all my classes since, I am a grade ahead so I was around 7/8 years old.

The fact that she teaches better than our English teachers.😂

how do you write an eye catching first sentence though?

Congratulations for getting into Harvard University(one of the best universities in the world)

Watching this video has felt like a meditative experience.

Hi, how can I send my essay to you for you can help me with it?

546 likes, 0 dislikes. I can get behind that. :)

at first I thought I wasn't smart enough to go to Harvard but now that I've heard your story I really think I can do it.

I like the way she just using metaphors.

I learn more from in 5 mins than I do from my real-life crappy teachers, thanks for making learning easy!

HELLO!! I am a really big fan of Harvard students!!!! I ama middle school A student, but unfortunately, this semester I recieved one B(89%) in my report card in Pre-Ap science. i am wondering if Harvard University looks at your middle school grade and what to do to improve that 89 to an A+.. THANK YOUU!!

I was always told that your body paragraphs should have your second strongest, weakest, and then your strongest so that you have a good start, burry the weakest in the middle, and then end on a good note

I appreciated the part about formulaic writing. I completely agree that there are great structures out there that can teach us all how to write. But, like you said, they are just training wheels. You learn from them and then you learn how to move on and get creative - push the boundaries with your writing. Great advice.

Hey guys, I cannot get above a 93 in English!!! I TRY SO HARD. I spent 10 hours and didn't even use a thesaurus and my teacher said because she doesn't know what voluminous means... It seems the more I try the worse grade I get and on essays I don't get above 90s and I don't know why... Help please!

Queen

Her video is so underrated😭

I have doing good things essay due Friday for getting picked for kindness ambassadors and extra credit so thank you so much!!!!

Heey look I was just wondering if you could do a video for like persons that are in other places despite USA (I'm from Brazil) and how we do to get into Harvard, because we don't have AP classes and this kind of stuff.... ty

I'm 15, in 9th grade, and wondering if and how I'm going to get into Harvard(my dream school). Like really, my mom's friend's son got into Princeton, and I'm here like, "what's gonna happen?"

This youtuber reminds me of my enrichment teacher.

Thank you so much for this video! I'm so terrified of essays that I've been avoiding mine for... 2 months now. Oops. Love your channel!

You're so beautiful and so smart! What even! :)

I'd REALLY LOVE to know your opinions on the presidential election 2016 and the president-elect!!!!!! Please do a video on this topic!!!!!

I read your Harvard essay it was so bad I don’t want wanna take this advice but I’m going to here it out anyway.

you just encouraged me to finish my essay and stop procrastinating. thank you lol your personality and facts woke me up 🤩