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3 Common Mistakes in Writing Economics Essays

February 9th, 2010

Having a dynamic writing style is often the make or break reason why your economics essay is either worth reading or is worth forgetting. In the essay writing craft, writing styles are developed to present your ideas creatively. There are many writing styles that are used today. Functionally, writing styles make your essay an effective tool for communication. In particular, there is no definite writing style that is effective for economics essays. Writing economics essays may involve many writing styles just in one composition.

Although there are many writing styles that you can use, there are common characteristics that all writing styles have. These characteristics are also the common mistakes in writing economics essays, to wit:

  • The use of tautology

Tautology is a type of word repetition that emphasises the meaning of the words. A few examples of tautology are: investment asset, stock reserves, guaranty deposit, and so on. Tautology is a playful use of words and this will make your economics essay less serious, except, perhaps if the phrase is already an established economic term. If you do not maintain a serious tone in your economics essay, your ideas are less believable. However, it does not mean that if you do not use tautologies in your economics essay you cannot anymore put any form of humour in it. Without using tautologies, you can still place humour in your economics essay whenever appropriate; it only depends on the your skillfulness being the writer.

  • Prefer action verbs and active voice

There is nothing more amazing than the use of action verbs and the active voice. The active voice places prominence on the subjects of the sentences thus, will make your economics essay more compelling to read. Action verbs also animate your thoughts in the economics essay. Readers can easily imagine the thoughts you present in the economics essay with the use of active verbs.

  • Foreign words and phrases

Economics essays are sometimes full of foreign words and phrases. The presence of foreign words and phrases in your economics essay may make your essay look more intellectual to some, but it will also lessen the readability of your economics essay. In this case, you are putting the most important factor of effective communication in jeopardy: you should never compromise the readability of your economics essay with the improper usage of foreign words. You can only use foreign words if these have no English counterparts.

Some writers make the mistake of letting their economics essay sound too scholarly or theoretical. This should not be the case if you want to establish effective communication to your readers especially that you are dealing with economics essays.

Knowing How to Write Narrative Economics Essays

January 22nd, 2010

Narrating is telling. Narrative economics essays in particular are essays that tell or narrate some economic situations. Most of the times, narrative economics essays tell more on experiences or projected experiences of stakeholders if a certain economic situation happens or will not happen.

Narrating about experiences impressed with an economic aspect or detailing the socio-economic impacts of a certain market situation is a sellout strategy for writing economics essays. General readers do not want to see a lot of economic terms in the essay or else they will lose their interest in reading your economics essay. What most readers want in economics essays is to see some sense of humanity into it and stating experiences answer these needs. These experiences may be true-to-life or may be hypothetical when presented in the economics essay. It all depends on how you want to write your economics essay.

The use of the freight-train writing style can be an effective style in stating experiences in your economics essay. The freight-train writing style focuses more on the use of conjunctions rather than the use of punctuations especially the period (.) in the economics essay. Take this example:

Economics essays purely solicit the writer’s perspective and this perspective must be critically evaluated in order to produce good ideas for the essay; ideas in the economics essay must be cohesive and must show clear-cut relationship with each other so that the readers can easily follow the thoughts in it.

Take the example above and notice the way you process your thoughts. The thoughts in the example are continuous and flowing. This is the advantage of the freight-train writing style if you use it in order to narrate experiences in your economics essay. This writing style allows your readers to appreciate the sequence of your thoughts in the essay rather than abruptly interrupting their lines of thought by using a lot of periods (.) in a paragraph.

All in all, the freight-train writing style shows how narration can be done in the economics essay. You can explore other writing styles in order to create dynamic economics essays. In sum, different ideas can still be effectively and eloquently expressed by flexibly using different writing styles.

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Knowing How to Write Sentences for Economics Essays

January 16th, 2010

Do you think sentences are easy to construct? Indeed, it is easy to build sentences for economics essays. If you want, you can deal with writing sentences for your economics essay even without defining its elements. However, you must know the building blocks of sentences for you to have a good sense of writing economics essays.

Sentences are the key structural units in your economics essay. Without good sentences in the economics essay, you will lose the clarity of your ideas into passing. In order to avoid this, you must clarify the purpose of your sentences well.

In order to write good sentences for your economics essay, you must know first the elements of a sentence, these are:

  • Phrases

Phrases are functional groups of words that are intended to express a meaning. The construction of phrases is advisably short. Otherwise, if you tend to construct lengthy phrases then you will be constructing wordy sentences for your economics essay. If this happens, your economics essay is less enticing to read. Who would like to read lengthy, rambling sentences throughout an essay?

  • Clauses

Separate and distinct from phrases, clauses are also functional groups of words that may not have a subject or finite verb. Clauses are of two kinds, the independent clause and the dependent clause.
Example:
When writing an economics essay, you must be certain of the purpose of your discourse.

In the given example, the italicised words when writing an economics essay make up the dependent clause while the remainder of the words makes up the independent clause. Often times, these clauses are commonly used in economics essays to give reasons or explanations to certain ideas.

  • Absolute

Absolute comes from a Latin word which means unconditional or unrestrained. Absolutes do not follow grammar rules; they just create connection and sequence of ideas in the essay.
Example:
Many people invested on local stocks, the local market went high.

The example clearly states the cause-and-effect relationship but is grammatically incorrect since it does not use the right punctuation connector.

In this sense, you must use absolutes sparingly in economics essays. If you use too much absolutes in writing an economics essay, your composition is prone to confusion.

Therefore, the knowledge of sentence elements gives you a clear idea on how to create sentences that suit your economics essay. Without familiarising yourself with these sentence elements, you will not be able to clearly define what makes for good sentences in your economics essay.

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Writing Assertions that Work

January 10th, 2010

Economics essays that solicit personal reflections of economic matters and issues need good assertions. Assertions are intellectual and positive declarations of the writer. In a general sense, assertions are less substantial. Thus, it is the role of the writer to create qualifying statements to support assertions in the economics essay. Qualifications are sets of standards used to gauge how powerful assertions are.

Assertions, though, can make your economics essay vulnerable especially if it is unevenly phrased.  To prevent weak assertions, you must identify well the qualifying thoughts that support your assertions in the essay.

With a sample statement, here are some guidelines on how to create good assertions for your economics essay:

Example:
The strength of economic activities mainly depends on the business giants and their transactions.

•    Acknowledge the complexity of your thoughts
Complex thoughts in the economics essay often generate a lot of perspectives to the readers. In the sample sentence above, it is a complex assertion. What are the parameters of economic activities? Thus, in your economics essay, you must clearly define the thoughts constituting your topic sentences.
•    Never oversimplify
Oversimplification occurs when you are concluding without considering other factors. In the example, the sentence is oversimplifying that economic activities are within the sole control of the business giants. In writing economics essays, you must add other sentences that support your topic sentences to avoid oversimplification. Going back to the example, you must then add some sentences that can help you specify the thoughts in your topic sentences in the essay.
•    Do not lose your focus
Focus is the key tool in writing good economics essays. As an essay writer, you must always go back to the main subject of your essay even when you are explaining some supporting details.
•    Use qualifying words
Economics essays always have a broad scope. Thus, it is your responsibility to define your scope well in the essay. The use of words like some, few, many, and less, are qualifying words that help define your scope in the essay.

In conclusion, the strength of your economics essay rely more on the strength of your assertions. Powerful assertions are gauged on how you qualify your thoughts in the essay. Thus, the quality of your assertions is determined by how you outline and define it in the economics essay.

The Persona in Economic Essays

December 9th, 2009

What have you noticed when reading economic essays from other writers? What are their similarities and differences? There are a lot of similarities among economic essays, especially when they refer to the same field of specialty, subject matter or essay question. On the other hand, no matter how similar these economic essays are, they can still be individually distinguished in terms of their respective author’s writing style and content.

All essays have that distinctive personal touch of their authors. It is impossible to separate the essay and the author. In the writing discipline, this personal touch is called the persona of the essay. Essays having unique personas clarify and define the purpose and nature of the author. Persona comes from a Latin word which means actor’s mask. When establishing the persona in your economic essay, it does not mean that you have to be consistent with your mood all throughout the essay. What you must be consistent about is your mood towards the subject matter and the different situations you presented in the economic essay. If you specify a situation that warrants you to be authoritative in your tone, then be it. If you are presented with another situation that requires personal statements or analyses from the gathered statistical data, then present it. The persona adds variety to your economic essay.

When writing economic essays, the same holds true that the writer’s nature and characteristic is also made known in the essay. Thus, as a writer, you must look at the presence of your persona in your economic essay. Is your persona consistent with your character or are you just pretending?

As a writer, it is always ethical to be true to your readers. Your economic essays must reflect who and what you are as a person. If you have a position or stand to establish in your economic essay, you must be able to define your personality well so that readers will believe you. The moment they see incoherent thoughts or cluttered ideas in your economic essay, this is a mark of inconsistency that you must avoid to retain your readers.

Thus, as a writer, you must evaluate if the economic essay is appropriate and authentic. The economic essay becomes authentic when the readers are able to grasp and understand your purpose in writing the economic essay. On the other hand, it becomes appropriate when you are able to meet the purpose and intention of your economic essay.

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Economic Essays: Divide and Conquer

December 1st, 2009

Subject matters or questions in economic essays do not just tackle a single scope or parameter. There are a whole lot of areas on which you can discuss the subject matter at hand. The divide and conquer method is a strategy used when tackling the problem of writing economic essays.

This is surely not the first time you have heard of the ‘divide and conquer’ method – people use this a lot when tackling or attempting to solve a problem, dividing the problem into chunks of doable tasks to avoid the burden of thinking of the entire problem as something large and insurmountable. This method for problem solving may also be applied to writing economic essays – you simply need to divide the tasks into simpler ones and do those simpler tasks one at a time.

Before writing an economic essay, you may also be burdened by the thought that writing an essay is too difficult and overwhelming – writing essays means you have to come up with several ideas and then you’d have to organise all the ideas. Looking at it closely, however, you might see that the task in itself is not all that difficult. All you have to do is think of the subject matter. Second, you must know and list down what subtopics or ideas you want to include in your economic essay. These subtopics or ideas must be directly involved with the subject matter. Third, think of ideas that are indirectly involved with the subject matter.

In organising your thoughts for writing the economic essay, you must begin by answering what the essay question or subject matter asks you about. At this point of the essay writing process, you must already lay out your plan of writing and explaining the main theme or your key answer in the economic essay. This way, all your listed ideas that are directly involved in the subject matter can also be employed and explained in the paragraphs or sentences of the economic essay.

When you have reached the maximum number of words in your economic essay while still discussing the key ideas, then disregard the other ideas that are not directly relevant to the subject matter. The divide and conquer method is useful when you want to explain only the important details in your economic essay especially if you have a limited maximum number of words.

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