Northeastern’s Human Services program graduate, Herman Barnes contributes to our blog pro bono. He sees his mission in helping students prepare for academic careers by providing them with experience and skill-based background required for successful studying and research.
Herman likes soccer (as if he really had a choice fathering a tween girl), but secretly roots for New England Patriots (as if he really had a choice having grown up in Foxborough). When Herman’s not working or doing household chores, he takes his spinning reel and retires to an isolated creek to try his fishing luck.
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Common App is the most popular college application platform in the United States. Over 900 schools use it, allowing students to streamline their application process. What does it mean for you? You don't have to create a separate application for every school you want to try your luck with. You only create and curate...
The foundation of academic writing rests on citing your sources thoroughly. You must always point to the origin of your information and provide the basis for every claim. That's a concept easy enough to understand. To be credible, you must provide evidence. Moreover, when you properly quote your sources, you draw a...
Writing a synthesis essay may sound all fancy and scholastic, but it’s not that difficult in reality. Yes, it takes some time to gather all the necessary information and the skill to digest and present it. Still, with good synthesis essay topics and some practice, you will nail this assignment! If the deadline...
Your task as an essay writer is to convey your message to your reader as clearly and concisely as possible. To do that, you select strong arguments and illustrative evidence. However, the way you structure your text is equally important: the order in which you lay out your ideas, the logical connections you...
Many colleges today make their specific writing supplement a compulsory part of the application and ask students targeted questions about the choice of school, major, and intellectual curiosity. Still, student’s personal statement remains one of the very important components of his or her application. Moreover,...
Writing narrative essay is one of the fun assignments that a high school or college student can get. It allows being creative, expressing one’s vision and sense of humor almost unreservedly – quite often to very impressive and moving results. You can boldly trespass on the rules of academic writing – the only...
The best kind of motivation is intrinsic motivation. You do something because it’s fun to do. In a perfect world, homework should be fun and you would do it because you enjoy it – just like you play games or scroll your feed. However, we don’t live in the perfect world, so how to find motivation to do...
At high school and college, essays are the most popular way to assess students’ knowledge about the subject and their ability to analyze data and think critically. Unfortunately, essays aren’t as popular on the receiving end of this assessment – that is among students. Either because they don’t get enough...
